We have a Scarygirl winner!

And it's a family affair...

Congratulations to Beth, Jed, Ash, Cary, Zachy and Tashi from Victoria!

You are clearly a family of talented sleuths - we are particularly impressed with your work tracking down that tricky Korean Odo Hirsch one.

A super-special advance copy of the Scarygirl graphic novel will be in the post to you right away.

We are also awarding three second prizes of the Scarygirl jacket, which is also a beautiful poster. The jackets go to Kate C & Karen H who both got 6 right, and to Lou at www.weheartbooks.com who snuck in with seconds to spare and 5 right. Well done!

Thank you to everyone who entered. We had lots of fun reading the answers and hope you had fun searching for them.*

For those of you who hanker for resolution, here are the answers.

1) The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard by Gregory Rogers
2) It's not all about YOU, Calma by Barry Jonsberg
3) The Singer of All Songs ("Chanters of Tremaris" Trilogy Book 1) by Kate Constable
4) Secret Scribbled Notebooks by Joanne Horniman
5) Black Juice by Margo Lanagan
6) Magic Beach by Alison Lester
7) Antonio S and the Mystery of Theodore Guzman by Odo Hirsch

Hurrah!

*In fact, we enjoyed this so much we might just do it again some time...

Scarygirl competition - hint, hint

The super-special advance of Scarygirl doesn't have a home yet (did we mention it's not published until OCTOBER so you will be MONTHS ahead of the pack). No one has all seven right. So keep those guesses coming.

On Wednesday next week we will award the prize to the person who has the MOST right - so it's worth giving it a shot even if you only know the Margo Lanagan one. Oops, I mean even if you only know one of them.

Anyway, if you're all tuckered out after using Google's language tools to search for... hmm... maybe a classic Australian beach book translated into Korean, you could pop over and play the Scarygirl game to get you in the mood for your winnings.

Scarygirl - a competition!

The spring-like winds in Melbourne have made us all giddy. Now we feel like wearing summer dresses and sitting outside* and GIVING STUFF AWAY. That's right we've decided to have a COMPETITION. Hooray!

THE PRIZE:
a hot-off-the-press, Special Advance Copy of Scarygirl by Nathan Jurevicius.

You will be the coolest kid in school/on the block/at work/around the house/Kirribilly house/The White House (Hi Barack, Michelle, Malia, Sasha, thanks for stopping by) - or wherever it is you spend your days. Because we have very few special advances and everybody wants one.**

YOUR MISSION:

Below are the foreign editions of seven our books.
Can you name the author and the original English title of each?

Be the first to email us seven correct answers and we will send you a Scarygirl for your very own. [You will find our special competition email address in the comments.]

You have ONE WEEK to answer correctly. We will reveal the winner and the answers on Wednesday 29 July. If no one gets them all right, we will award the prize to the person who has the MOST right. So it's worth having a go even if you reckon you only know a couple.

Some are QUITE DIFFICULT, so it's possible that we will drop a HINT or two every now and then. Keep your eyes peeled. Authors whose books are included here are NOT EXCLUDED. You just got a lucky break.

NB Some of these covers also featured the English title. But we have used our mad photoshop skills to camouflage them.

Anyway... Are you ready? On your marks, get set, GO!

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*Although the rain that's just begun might put paid to that. Ahh, Melbourne.
**Seriously, we just about have to keep these things under lock and key lest they walk out of the House of Onion seemingly on their lonesome.