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Tasmanian Literary Awards

One Careless Night by Christina Booth (Walker Books Australia)

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One Careless Night

Where the mist swallows mountains and winds whisper through ancient trees, a mother and her pup run wild and free. They hunt, but they are also hunted. Carted away. Sold for bounty. And then, one careless night … The last thylacine is gone. This is a beautiful but heartbreaking story of Australia's last thylacine (Tasmanian tiger), which died in captivity

About the author

Author and illustrator Christina Booth works from her bush studio in Tasmania, Australia. Trained as a teacher and painter, she loves that she makes up stories and colours for a living. Christina started her literary career illustrating for great Australian authors such as Max Fatchen, Colin Thiele, Christobel Mattingley and Jackie French. Christina is the award-winning author of eight, and illustrator of over twenty books for children. She loves that she gets to tell stories and colour in as a job and is passionate about helping others to find the story-teller inside them.