Trace Balla is often found sketching in nature, riding her bike,
dancing, and growing vegies in her garden in central Victoria. She
loves to illustrate and write songs and stories, and inspire others
in their creativity and care for the planet. Her background is in
illustration, community arts, art therapy, animation, and writing
songs and stories, and she enjoys visiting schools and festivals to
talk about her work.
Rivertime won the Readings Children's Book Prize and Wilderness
Society's Environment Award for Children's Literature, and was
shortlisted for the CBCA Awards in two categories, the NSW
Premier's Literary Awards and the Speech Pathology Book of the Year
Awards. Rockhopping, a sequel to Rivertime, was the winner of the
2017 CBCA Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers, and was
short-listed for the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature
for Children's Literature and for the 2016 Speech Pathology
Australia Book of the Year Awards - 8 to 10 Years.
'All children need an Uncle Egg to open up the magical world of nature. We all need to get outside, away from television, computers and mobile phones, and what better way than a canoeing-camping trip? This is a delightful story about the joy of the outdoors.' - David Suzuki
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