Born:
 1954
Melbourne
Australia

Current Home:
Melbourne
Australia

Martine Murray

Biography

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Martine Murray, a native and a current resident of Melbourne, Australia, is an accomplished author with a variety of other talents and interests. She has studied film making at Prahan College, painting at the Victorian College of the Arts and movement and dance at Melbourne University. She began writing as a method of keeping track of all of her activities. She explains, “I was writing in journals a lot while I was in art school. I also used to write on my canvasses or write on etchings and make tiny stories that weren't really stories, they were more like sketches of moments.”

Soon enough, Martine had authored and illustrated the gentle, funny and gloriously playful books such as The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley (Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life). In the story of twelve-year old Cedar B. Hartley, the young heroine befriends the son of a circus family and coordinates a local circus to raise money for the community's dog operation. The book has won a number of awards including NYPL 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing, Book Sense 76 Children's Pick, it was shortlisted for Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the year Award, shorlisted for New South Wales Premier's Literary Award and won the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Books.

Martine Murray is currently enrolled in Professional Writing at RMIT and plans further study in screen writing and short story.

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  Flight and Fancy by Jennifer Murray   A short history of commercial airplane travel, from the glamorous age of the jet-setters, to the current era of cheap and crowded airbuses. Affordable flights have hastened globalization, revolutionized tourism, damaged the environment, and provided new opportunities for terrorism. Meanwhile, the boom-and-bust fortunes of linchpin carriers such as Pan Am, Southwest, and United have horrified opponents of deregulation.   $17.50 You save: 30% Library Binding | Grades 4-6

  
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  The Very Sleepy Sloth by Andrew Murray and Jack Tickle Sloth turns the tables on his friends when they criticize him for being too lazy. Monkey finds out that he's no good at lifting weights, and Elephant can't jump on the trampoline. The animals learn that everyone does something best - and Sloth's best talent is sleeping! "Can be used to spark discussion about individuality." - SLJ $5.95 Paperback Book | Grades K-2

  
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