Little J and Big Cuz: The Stormy Night

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Join Little J, Big Cuz and their friends for all kinds of adventures as they discover culture, community and country!

Uncle Mick and Nanna are shelter-building experts. Little J wants to try it too!
But what happens when a goanna gets too comfy Or a stormy night begins to brew

Lets build!

• Based on the Logie Award-winning animated children's series that featuresMiranda Tapsell and Deborah Mailman, Little J & Big Cuzfollows the adventures of Indigenous Australian kids Little J and Big Cuz living with their Nanna and Old Dog.
• The television seriesnow airs across ABC, NITV, and SBS On Demand. It has wonBest Children's Program (Logies), an ATOM award, an Awgie and SDIN award.

Author Bio

Adam Thompson is an emerging Aboriginal (pakana) writer from Tasmania. In 201617, Adam received writing awards through theTamar Valley Writers Festival and the Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival.Adam has been awarded a First Nations Fellowship at Varuna The Writers House, several Arts Tasmania grants, and was one of ten recipients ofThe Next Chapterinitiative through the Wheeler Centre. His writing has appeared in the Australian Dictionary of Biography,Kill Your Darlings, andThe Griffith Review and Adam's debut short-story collection,Born into This, was published by UQP in February 2021. A regular collaborator on the Little J & Big Cuz television series,The Stormy Nightis Adam'sfirst children's book.

Tony Thorne's endearing character design and vivid sense of place for Little J & Big Cuz is the culmination of his experience as an animation director, illustrator, visual artist, author of graphic novels and comic book illustrator. Tony's career is as diverse as it is interesting, spanning a Tasmanian Book Prize shortlisting, works displayed in the National Portrait Gallery and the Burnie Regional Art Gallery, and positions on high profile features including Animation Supervisor on Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Senior Animator on Hunger Games and Happy Feet II andLead Animator on Ella Enchanted and Valiant.