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Christobel Mattingley was born in SA in 1931 and died in 2019, and is the author of more than 50 books, 47 of which were for children. After publishing her first book, The Picnic Dog, in 1970, Mattingley went on to win numerous awards for her work including the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Children’s Book of the Year Award in both the Younger Readers and Picture Book categories, and an Australian Human Rights Award commendation for No Gun for Asmir. Her work has been translated into other languages, won various awards in Australia and the USA, and has been made into films for ABC Television. In 1990 she received the Advance Australia Award for Service to Literature, and in 1996 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for her service to literature, particularly children’s literature, and for community service through her commitment to social and cultural issues.

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Australian author (1931–2019)

Christobel Rosemary MattingleyAM (26 October 1931 – 1 June 2019)^[1][2] was an Australian author of books for children and adults.^[3] Her book Rummage won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers and Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book in 1982. In the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours Mattingley was made a Member of the Order of Australia for "service to literature, particularly children's literature, and for community service through her commitment to social and cultural issues".^[4]

Her last book was Maralinga's long shadow: Yvonne's story, which was published in 2016^[5] and won the 2017 the Young People's History Prize at the NSW Premier's History Awards.^[6]

Bibliography

Children's books

• Mattingley, Christobel (1970). The picnic dog. Illustrated by Carolyn Dinan. London: Hamish Hamilton.
• Mattingley, Christobel (1973). Queen of the Wheat Castles. Leicester, UK: Brockhampton Press.
• Mattingley, Christobel (198
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  Mattingley, Arthur Herbert Evelyn   (1870 - 1950)

  Born at North Melbourne, Vic, on 11 July 1870; died at Prahran (Melbourne), Vic, on 2 October 1950.
  
  Arthur was born at North Melbourne, and educated at his father's (Albert Mattingley) North Melbourne School, and later at Scotch College, Hawthorn (Melbourne).
  
  During most of his working career (from about 1891 until his retirement in 1933) he was employed by the Commonwealth Customs Department in Melbourne as the customs officer-in-charge of overseas parcel post.
  
  Arthur married Zenobia Anne Fenton at North Melbourne on 22 March 1910 and they had four children.
  
  He was very interested in ornithology and conservation management, was on the Victorian Advisory Council of Flora and Fauna, was elected a member of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, FNCV, in November 1895, and was made an honorary member in 1947. He was a founding member of The Gould League of Bird Lovers of Victoria and its President in 1933.
  
  Arthur was also a pioneering bird photographer and published many pictures to accompany his numerous articles