Australian children's author
Amanda Lieber
Amanda is passionate about all forms of storytelling, especially for children: stories that inspire, bring laugh out loud moments, and open up sensitive subjects gently.
My Giant Sea Shell was shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards 2024. Illustrated by Kathy Creamer.
In the news
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ABC News
A child’s view of a parent’s depression
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ABC News explores how My Giant Sea Shell helps children understand a parent’s depression through the eyes of a child, making space for honest conversations, patience and the understanding that recovery takes time.
“How a child views a parent’s depression is tackled in the book My Giant Sea Shell”
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Blitz, Arc UNSW
Sydney Writers’ Festival interview
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Ahead of the Sydney Writers’ Festival, Arc UNSW’s Blitz talks to Amanda about the seaside moment that sparked the story, the publisher who passed because it “doesn’t have a happy ending”, and why picture books make such good conversation starters for children.
“I whispered a wish into the shell and chucked it into the ocean.”
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Podcast
Reading With a Chance of Tacos
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Amanda joins the children’s book podcast to talk about My Giant Sea Shell, illustrated by Kathy Creamer and published by Little Pink Dog Books, and how a story can carry a big subject gently, with a strength of love and encouragement.
“An important topic in our society, through the eyes of a child.”
Bring Amanda to your school
School visits, author talks and media enquiries.