Book designer, bestselling illustrator, author, snappy dresser. Swifty @CSIROpublishing; Evie & Rhino @Walkerbooksaus; Exit Through the Gift Shop @Macmillanaus
Sydney, Australia
Joined September 2008
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Emmanuelle (10) was thrilled to get her hands on a copy of #EvieandRhino #neridahmcmulllin illus. @astred @WalkerBooksUK #RedReadingBub review here wp.me/p11DI5-bfP
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Superb storytelling and two enormously endearing characters make #neridamcmullen’s #EvieandRhino illust. @astred @WalkerBooksUK #kidlit #fiction book of the day reviewed on #RedReadingHub blog now wp.me/p11DI5-bfP
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Announcing the 2023 ACT Notable Awards Children's shortlist!
The shortlisted authors and illustrators are as follows:
Stephanie Owen Reeder @astred
@jackie_french_ Bruce Whatley
@BrytheFlyGuy @Irma_Gold Wayne Harris, Kris Saclier @cathywilcox1
Barbie Robinson Ian Robertson
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NO WORDS by @Maryam_Master, cover designed by Astred Hicks, has won the Best Designed Children’s Fiction Cover Award at this year's Australian Book Design Awards! Our congratulations to Astred, who also designed the cover for Exit Through the Gift Shop by Maryam Master.
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Evie and Rhino by Neridah McMullin, illustrated by Astred Hicks is out now! Read the full review by @ReadingsBooks here: ow.ly/bkaq50L2JnY
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It was wonderful to be at this afternoon's book launch of Swifty the Super Fast Parrot by Stephanie Owen Reeder and @astred. A fantastic picture book about the endangered swift parrot published by @CSIROPublishing
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Happy Book Birthday to our October releases! This month we're celebrating:
🎉Evie and Rhino
🎉Frank's Red Hat
🎉Diary of an Accidental Witch
🎉A is for Australian Reefs
🎉Solve Your Own Mystery
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What's colourful and super-fast?
The subject of our next children's book, Swifty!
Available in bookstores and online from October.
publish.csiro.au/book/8062/
@astred
#SwiftParrot #EndangeredSpecies #OzBirds
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BRAVO!!! to Maryam Master whose book Exit Through the Gift Shop, illustrated by Astred Hicks (published by Pan Macmillan Australia) has been shortlisted for 2022 CBCA Book of the Year: Younger Readers. @maryammasterauthor @astredhicksdesigncherry @macmillanaus #CBCA #cbca2022
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I was a huge fan of @Maryam_Master’s debut #book Exit Through The Gift Shop & loved No Words just as much, maybe more! Deep issues deftly handled with heart & humour + clever, detailed design from @astred. Thought turquoise/fluoro orange combo was unbeatable, but blue/gold is 🤩!
ALT Another photo of the two books from above. Exit through the gift shop cover is painterly, turquoise and fluorescent orange/red portrait illustration of a girl with eyes closed. No words cover is mostly blue, two figures illustrated, gold script letters float from the boys chest into the sky while a girl reaches for them
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ScoMo says he is “blessed” to have two non disabled children. Every child is a blessing. The NDIS is there to help people with disability live their lives to the fullest. The Morrison Gov has slashed NDIS plans for 1000s of children around Australia. Labor will fix the NDIS.
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Wrong. If you vote for the United Australia Party, your preferences flow where you direct them. 100% of every vote's preferences flow where you the voter chose to send them. Parties and candidates cannot change the preferences you write on the ballot paper.
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Smoking pot is not remotely a big deal, but trawling through old, personal photos of a young woman who’s known to the public bc her lived experience and advocacy against child sexual abuse and publishing them to humiliate and discredit her is deeply violating.
Shame @DailyMailAU
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Families are driving pharmacy to pharmacy trying to find a rapid test. Parking overnight to try to get a PCR. Health care workers are doing their best in a buckling system. This could have been prevented if had we had a Prime Minister who planned and led.
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2022 is seeing some corporations shamelessly profiteering out of the pandemic which can clearly be seen on the Harvey Norman replay.
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On the last day of 2021 Australians end the year the same way we began, with no leadership from the Prime Minister.
In January it wasn't a race to get vaccinated, and now there's no plan for you to get tested.
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Never mistake
- anyone’s concern for covid spread as ‘anxiety’
- any expression of concern for others, esp children, as ‘weakness’ or timidity.
Big risk taking is dumb, not admirable.
Appropriate risk management is mandatory in pandemics & does not include sacrifice of anyone.
