Tom The Outback Mailman

Tom The Outback Mailman

The Eve Pownall Award for Information Books is for outstanding books which have the prime intention of documenting factual material with consideration given to imaginative presentation, interpretation and variation of style.

The Birdsville Track is one of the best-known - and loneliest - tracks in Australia, and for twenty years Tom Kruse was the mailman, battling the heat, floods and mechanical breakdowns in his trusty truck, The Badger.

Based on her bestselling book, Mailman Of The Birdsville Track, Kristin Weidenbach has written a lively, engaging version for younger readers, capturing the humour, excitement and ingenuity of a classic slice of Australia s fast-vanishing history. Timothy Ide is a South Australian illustrator with a genuine feel for the beauty and hardship of life in the Australian outback.

Kristin Weidenbach is a PhD immunologist who switched to a writing career after completing postdoctoral research at Stanford University in California. She lives in Adelaide. Timothy Ide has been working as a freelance illustrator for over twenty years and as a tertiary and secondary art teacher for nearly ten years in South Australia.

Tom The Outback Mailman
Hachette Children's Books
Author: Kristin Weidenbach
ISBN: 9780734412249
RRP: $28.99