ABOUT CRISTY BURNE

• Children’s author Cristy Burne has worked as a science communicator for 20 years across Australia, Japan, Switzerland, the UK, US, South Africa and beyond. She has performed in a science circus, worked as a garbage analyst, and was a reporter at CERN when they turned on the Large Hadron Collider. Cristy is a popular presenter and is passionate about empowering our next generation of creative science-savvy citizens. She also loves chocolate.

  Recent titles include:

  Wednesday Weeks and the Crown of Destiny

  Hachette (2021)

  
  

  Wednesday Weeks and the Tower of Shadows

  Hachette (2021)

   

  Beneath The Trees

  Fremantle Press (2021)

   

  Fiona Wood: Inventor of Spray-on Skin

  Wild Dingo Press (September, 2020) ISBN:
  9781925893281

   

  Zeroes and Ones: The Geeks, Heroes and Hackers Who Changed History

  XOUM/Brio Books (August
  2018) ISBN: 9781925589399

  –         
  2019 CBCA Notables Book – Eve Pownall Awards

  –         
  2019 Shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia
  Awards

   

  Off The Track

  Fremantle Press (July
  2018) ISBN: 9781925591743

  –         
  2019 Shortlisted Wilderness Society
  Environmental Award for Children’s Literature

   

  To The Lighthouse

  Fremantle Press (June 2017)
  ISBN: 9781925164619

  –         
  2019 Shortlisted West Australia Young Readers
  Book Award (WAYRBA)

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