Kay Crabbe  is a children's author based in Australia with a focus on educational books and school curriculum texts, fiction and non-fiction. Her fiction novel The Pearl-shell Diver: a story of adventure from the Torres Strait won the 2016 Speech Pathology Book of the Year Award Indigenous category and was also a Children's Bool Council Notable Book. Her non-fiction book Introduced Species in Australia was awarded a Whitley Book Commendation by The Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. 

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