She has also won the Aurealis fantasy award and several Children’s Choice awards.Īs a child, throughout her teenage years and twenties, Emily Rodda was known as a huge lover of writing and reading stories. For her work, she was the winner of the Australia Book of the Year by the Children’s Book Council, which she has won half a dozen times. Writing as Jennifer Rowe, she is the creator of several storylines and characters for Murder Call the TV series. Since then, she has gone on to write more than 100 children’s fiction works that range from novels to picture books.
Rodda began writing it as a bedtime story for her kid but expanded it since the child loved it so much. “Something Special” which was her debut novel came out in 1984 and has a very interesting origin story. She would, later on, become Australian Women’s Weekly’s editor-in-chief. She started out working for Angus & Robertson as an editor before she finally became a publisher. Growing up, she was quite the reader and hence it was not surprising that she gravitated towards publishing. The author grew up on the North Shore of Sydney and went to the University of Sydney from where she graduated with an English Literature master’s degree in 1973.
Emily Rodda is the pseudonym of Jennifer Rowe who writes children’s fiction, young adult fantasy, and general fantasy fiction novels.
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