About Christina:
Christina grew up in Tasmania, the small island state at the bottom of Australia, mostly on the beach, at her parents' home with wombats and echidnas digging holes in the yard.
Summer was spent on a boat fishing, on the beach with family and friends, reading any book she could lay her hands on and playing tippity-run cricket with a fat stick, a tennis ball and a rubbish bin.
Born to a Dutch mum and a dad whose family arrived as convicts and miners ensured a good combination of cultural heritage: lots of cheese, Vegemite, salted herrings and licorice.
Trained as a teacher, Christina is also a landscape artist. She started her publishing career as an illustrator to great writers such as Colin Thiele, Max Fatchen and Christobel Mattingley. In 2007 Christina’s first picture Book, Purinina, A Devil’s Tale (Lothian Hachette) was published. She now has over twenty books published.
Christina works from her studio overlooking a lake and a variety of wildlife. She illustrates her own books and great stories for other authors. A number of her books have won awards including Kip (Windy Hollow Books), the story of a noisy rooster living in the city, which won an Honour Book Award in the 2010 CBCA (Children’s Book Council of Australia) Book of the Year Awards and Welcome Home (Ford Street Publishing), the story of a whale as she returns to her ancestors home, which won the Environmental Award for Children's Literature in 2014.
The Booth household is a busy one. Christina lives with her astronomer husband and daughter (including an array of musical instruments) near Launceston, Tasmania. They have chickens, a cat, a dog and a wild bush garden (that needs some TLC) with fruit trees and lots of native animals such as wallabies, blue tongue lizards, snakes, lorikeets, echidnas, bandicoots, quolls and kookaburras.
Christina grew up in Tasmania, the small island state at the bottom of Australia, mostly on the beach, at her parents' home with wombats and echidnas digging holes in the yard.
Summer was spent on a boat fishing, on the beach with family and friends, reading any book she could lay her hands on and playing tippity-run cricket with a fat stick, a tennis ball and a rubbish bin.
Born to a Dutch mum and a dad whose family arrived as convicts and miners ensured a good combination of cultural heritage: lots of cheese, Vegemite, salted herrings and licorice.
Trained as a teacher, Christina is also a landscape artist. She started her publishing career as an illustrator to great writers such as Colin Thiele, Max Fatchen and Christobel Mattingley. In 2007 Christina’s first picture Book, Purinina, A Devil’s Tale (Lothian Hachette) was published. She now has over twenty books published.
Christina works from her studio overlooking a lake and a variety of wildlife. She illustrates her own books and great stories for other authors. A number of her books have won awards including Kip (Windy Hollow Books), the story of a noisy rooster living in the city, which won an Honour Book Award in the 2010 CBCA (Children’s Book Council of Australia) Book of the Year Awards and Welcome Home (Ford Street Publishing), the story of a whale as she returns to her ancestors home, which won the Environmental Award for Children's Literature in 2014.
The Booth household is a busy one. Christina lives with her astronomer husband and daughter (including an array of musical instruments) near Launceston, Tasmania. They have chickens, a cat, a dog and a wild bush garden (that needs some TLC) with fruit trees and lots of native animals such as wallabies, blue tongue lizards, snakes, lorikeets, echidnas, bandicoots, quolls and kookaburras.
