Sue Whiting

Sue Whiting started her working life as a primary school teacher with a special interest in literacy education and children’s literature. In 2005 Sue left teaching to pursue a career in children’s book publishing and is now Publishing Manager and Senior Commissioning Editor for Walker Books Australia. She is also a successful author who has written numerous books for children and young adults: fiction and nonfiction, picture books through to YA. Her middle grade novel Get a Grip, Cooper Jones was a 2011 CBCA Notable Book, and her picture book, A Swim in the Sea, illustrated by Meredith Thomas, was the Speech Pathologists’ 2014 Book of the Year, 3–5 years category. 2015 will see the US release (Switch/Capstone) of her YA novel, Portraits of Celina, and the Australian release (Walker Books) of her narrative nonfiction picture book, Platypus, illustrated by Mark Jackson, which will be published in the US in 2016 (Candlewick Press).