The book was also shortlisted for the CBCA's Crichton Award (given to new illustrators), The NSW Premier's Literature Awards – The Patricia Wrightson Award, and the Children's Peace Literature Award.
In 2008, the book received a Children's Book Council of Australia Award in the council's Early Childhood category. The first of these, Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley, was published in July 2007. Then in 2006, Blabey turned his focus entirely to the creation of children's picture books.
īesides his 1994 award for acting in a lead role, the Australian Film Institute also nominated him in 2000 for his guest-starring role in the series Stingers.įrom the mid-2000s, Blabey turned his attention away from acting and towards painting and created six separate solo exhibitions across Australia between 20. Career Acting īlabey appeared in various television and film roles throughout the 1990s and 2000s and took part in several theatrical productions.
They have two sons.īlabey supports The Alannah and Madeline Foundation, who work to protect children from violence. The couple separated amicably in May 2022. He married the actress and speech pathologist Kirstie Hutton in April 2000. In the field of acting, he is probably best known for his lead roles in two television dramedies, 1994's The Damnation of Harvey McHugh, for which he won an Australian Film Institute Award, and 2003's CrashBurn, before retiring from performance in 2005.Īaron Blabey was born on January 1, 1974, in Bendigo, Australia. In May 2019, it was announced that Netflix is developing a movie-musical adaptation of Thelma the Unicorn with Blabey again serving as executive producer. box office and was the second-highest-grossing animated film of 2022. Blabey served as an executive producer on the movie with Patrick Hughes and Etan Cohen. On April 22, 2022, an animated movie adaptation of The Bad Guys from DreamWorks Animation starring Sam Rockwell, Awkwafina, Marc Maron, Craig Robinson and Anthony Ramos premiered in the United States. The Bad Guys first reached #1 on the list on July 3, 2019. He is the creator of three best-selling children's series Pig the Pug – a picture book series about a rude, selfish, mean-spirited little dog, The Bad Guys – a New York Times #1 bestselling graphic novel series for junior readers about a gang of scary-looking animals trying to change their bad reputations and Thelma the Unicorn – a second picture book series about a plain little pony who pretends to be a unicorn.Īs of December 2022, Blabey has around 35 million books in print and his books have spent over 120 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List.
Aaron Blabey (born January 1, 1974) is an Australian author of children's books.
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