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Rebecca Young.

Writer · Australia

Rebecca Young: Australian author of Teacup (with Matt Ottley on art) — restrained, poetic migration-and-journey picture book for ages 5–10.

Rebecca Young is an Australian author best known for the picture book Teacup (with Matt Ottley on art), a quietly powerful migration-and-journey picture book about a boy carrying a teacup of earth from his old home across the sea to a new one. Young's voice is restrained, poetic and emotionally precise. A reliable contemporary Australian literary-picture-book author for ages 5–10.