Anna Ciddor

Anna Ciddor is an award-winning author of over 50 children's books. Her newest, Moonboy (Allen and Unwin 2025), a heart-warming, exciting time-slip, carries 11 year old Lettie back to 1969 at the time of the first moon landing. This novel also sensitively explores love and connection with a grandparent suffering dementia and has been short-listed for multiple awards. Anna is known for fun, lively recreations of the past, and thorough, not heavy-handed, research. Other popular books include The Boy Who Stepped Through Time about Roman Gaul, The Family with Two Front doors, set in the Jewish quarter of 1920s Poland, and 52 Mondays, a novel based on memories of 1960s Australia. Anna's accolades include the Nance Donkin Award for Children's Literature, several Notable Book Awards from the Children's Book Council of Australia, a US Junior Library Guild selection, the UK Fantastic Book Awards, a short-listing in the ARA Historical Novel Prize and a grant from the Australia Council.