crotch tickler" and lamented that Hartnett was "too good a writer to put her name to this indigestible hairball of spunk and spite". It was defended vigorously in The Australian by Marion Halligan ("I haven't read many books by Hartnett, but I think this is a much more amazing piece of writing than any of them") who chastised Craven for missing the joke ("How could an experienced critic get that so wrong?") and wonders why female authors writing frankly about sex is so frowned upon. Bibliography Fiction Picture books The Boy and the Toy (2010) Come Down, Cat! (2011) Blue Flower (2021) Shortlisted – CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book (2022) Junior fiction The Silver Donkey (2004) Won – Courier Mail award for young readers (2005) Won – CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers (2005) Won – COOL Award Fiction for Years 7-9 (2007) Won – Andersen Award (Italy) Best Book for readers 9–12 (2010) Sadie and Ratz (2008) The Children of the King (2012) Won – CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers (2013) Shortlisted – Prime Minister's Literary Awards Young Adult Fiction (2013) Teen and young adult fiction Wilful Blue (1994) produced as a play and performed at the Victorian Arts Centre Won – IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Ena Noel Award (1996) Sleeping Dogs (1995) Won – Miles Franklin Kathleen Mitchell Award (Australia) (1996) Won – Victorian Premier's Literary Award Sheaffer Pen Prize (1996) Honour – CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers (1996) Shortlisted – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards (1996) The Devil Latch (1996) Princes (1997) Shortlisted – CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers (1999) All My Dangerous Friends (1998) Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf (1999) (first published in the UK in 2004) Shortlisted – CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers (2002) Thursday's Child (2000) Won – Guardian Children's Fiction Prize Won – Aurealis Award, Best Young Adult Novel (Australian speculative fiction) Shortlisted – Australian Publishers Association Award (2000) Shortlisted – CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers (2001) Shortlisted – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards (2001) Shortlisted – Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (2002) Forest (2001) Won – CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers (2002) Surrender (2005): Honour – Michael L. Printz Award (2007) Shortlisted – The