Kate and Jol Temple
Kate and Jol Temple at Adelaide Writers' Festival 2018
Kate and Jol Temple at Adelaide Writers' Festival 2018
OccupationChildren's Authors
NationalityAustralian
GenreHumour
Notable works
Notable awardsCharlotte Huck Award (2020)
Website
katejoltemple.com

Kate and Jol Temple are Australian children's authors.[1] They are the 2020 winners of the Charlotte Huck Award for book Room on Our Rock.[2] They are also widely known for their 2017 Children's Book Council of Australia Honour Book Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers Third Grade, published by Allen and Unwin. The book was praised for its use of humour and history.[3]

Their picture book, I Got This Hat, was the 2016 National Simultaneous Storytime book and read by more than half a million children on the same day at the same time.[4] The book is published by HarperCollins.[5] The book has also been produced as an app with funding from the Australia Council for the Arts.

Awards and honors

Awards for the Temple's books
Year Title Award Result Ref.
2017 Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers Third Grade CBCA Book of the Year: Younger Readers Honour [6]
2018 Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers X Marks the Spot CBCA Book of the Year: Younger Readers Notable
2019 Room on Our Rock CBCA Book of the Year: Picture Book Notable [7]
2020 Room On Our Rock Charlotte Huck Award Winner [8][9][10]
2021 Bin Chicken CBCA Book of the Year: Early Childhood Notable [11]

Publications

Picture books

Bin Chicken books

The Bin Chicken books are illustrated by Ronojoy Ghosh and published by Scholastic Australia.

  • Bin Chicken (Scholastic, 2020)
  • Bin Chicken Flies Again (2022)
  • Bin Chicken and the Christmas Turkey (2022)

Standalone books

  • Parrot Carrot, illustrated by Jon Foye (Allen & Unwin, 2011)
  • I Got This Hat, illustrated by Jon Foye (HarperCollins, 2013)
  • Mike I Don't Like, illustrated by Jon Foye (ABC Books, 2014)
  • Room On Our Rock, illustrated by Terri Rose Baynton (Scholastic, 2018)
  • Are You My Bottom, illustrated by Ronojoy Ghosh (Allen & Unwin, 2018)
  • Move That Mountain, illustrated by Terri Rose Baynton (Scholastic, 2020)
  • Winner Winner Bin Chicken Dinner, illustrated by Ronojoy Ghosh (Scholastic, 2021)
  • That Bird Has Arms!, illustrated by Niharika Hukku and Rono Joy Ghosh (exp. 2023)

Children's novels

Alice Toolie book

The Alice Toolie books are illustrated by Grace West and published by Allen & Unwin.

  1. Yours Troolie, Alice Toolie (2018)
  2. The Birthday Wars: Yours Troolie (2019)
  3. The Battle of Book Week: Yours Troolie (2020)

Captain Jimmy Cook series

  1. Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers Third Grade (2016)
  2. Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers X Marks The Spot (2017)

Trilby Moffat series

  1. The Dangerous Business of Being Trilby Moffat (Hachette Australia, 2022)
  2. The Perilous Promotion of Trilby Moffat (Lothian Children's Books, exp. 2023)

The Underdogs series

The Underdog books are illustrated by Shiloh Gordon and published by Hardie Grant Children's Publishing.

  1. The Underdogs Catch a Cat Burglar (2021)
  2. The Underdogs Fake it Til They Make It (2021)
  3. The Underdogs Hit a Grand Slam (2022)
  4. The Underdogs Rock 'n' Roll Over (2022)
  5. The Underdogs Fish for Trouble

References

  1. ↑ "Award Winners | CBCA". www.nsw.cbca.org.au/. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Charlotte Huck Award Winners".
  3. ↑ "Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers Third Grade | Lamont Books". www.lamontbooks.com.au/. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "National Simultaneous Storytime 2016 |". www.alia.org.au. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "National Simultaneous Storytime Wrap up 2016 | Australian Library and Information Association". www.alia.org.au. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
  6. ↑ "Book of the Year - Winners 2017". Children's Book Council of Australia. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  7. ↑ "Notables 2019". Children's Book Council of Australia. Archived from the original on 26 March 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  8. ↑ "2020 Charlotte Huck and Orbis Pictus Award Winners Announced". BookTrib. 10 November 2019. Archived from the original on 20 February 2021. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  9. ↑ "NCTE Names 2020 Charlotte Huck and Orbis Pictus Award Winners". School Library Journal. Archived from the original on 5 December 2022. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  10. ↑ "Awards: Staunch Book Winner; NCTE Award Winners". Shelf Awareness. 26 November 2019. Archived from the original on 27 January 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  11. ↑ "Notables 2021". Children's Book Council of Australia. Archived from the original on 23 February 2021. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
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