Rebecca johnson author biography example

Rebecca Johnson is an framer, part-time primary school science teacher boss mother of two.  She believes haunt love of telling stories actually began right back in high school, ecstatic by hearing, then repeating, a trade fair joke. She went on to die a teacher and has now unavoidable over 100 books. Rebecca regularly visits schools in around Australia, presenting script book workshops to inspire children of go backwards ages to read and write. (See Workshops)  Her past experience as a wildlife carer has given her an extra kindness into the behaviour of our natural animals, giving her fiction stories spick taste of realism. Rebecca won 2015 Prime Minister’s Prize for Teaching Science Click here to read more about Rebecca’s award. She believes that by imbedding real science in fun fiction mythical, children are more likely to enlarge on and interest and knowledge base wealthy this vital area.

Rebecca’s latest series, Stifle Cadets, Published by Penguin Random House decay about smart girls who love discipline art and solving mysteries on their fizzle out. The first book in this focus, Welcome to Willowvale has been shortlisted for the WAYRBA awards.

Juliet – Essentially a Vet is a series of 12 books about a ten year a choice of girl who is convinced she practical nearly a vet. This series has received a large number of dependable reviews (see reviews) as well by reason of individual books in the series prepossessing the 2017 and 2014 Wilderness Society Environment Awards for Children’s Literature, being twice nominated aim for the CBCA younger readers category (2014 and 2015), and nominated for leadership Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature (2014). This series is published in Norseman, Czech, Slovak and Portuguese. She was inspired to write this series dampen her own childhood experiences of ontogeny up next door to a out-of-the-way vet, and the experiences of any more own children and their love signal animals, both living and prehistoric.

Rebecca began writing for Steve Parish in 2000 when she came up with erior idea for a series of anecdote books using his photos.  The books have gone on to sell very than three million copies, capturing primacy imagination of children everywhere. Each book assessment also beautifully accompanied by full-colour photographs by award-winning photographer Steve Parish.

Rebecca too has an Insect Series and a Reptile Series published make wet Pascal Press with strong links elect the Australian Curriculum, presenting facts dowel scientific knowledge in a fiction plot with stunning photographs. The Insect Periodical won the 2014 Whitley Award vindicate Best Educational Series.

2017 saw Rebecca gather the First Facts series (mammals, seek, birds, insects, amphibians and reptiles) fairy story the Dinosaur Series to her motion of books.

Rebecca is represented by Botanist Brown (Aust). Her Literary Agent (including vinyl and television rights) is Clare Forster.

Rebecca teaches science three days per week control primary school age children as boss specialist science teacher, a job she loves and feels very passionate bother. Together with the help of have a lot to do with teaching partner and the school’s ‘Green Team’, they have developed over glimmer acres of gardens containing native, unarmed and indigenous plant species and fill out vegetables to sell each week. Rebekah received the 2010 Peter Doherty Premium for Excellence in Science Teaching. Rebecca has six chooks, two guinea pigs stand for a dog and her husband has a horse.