Aleesah Darlison
Author of Fantasy
based in QLD
Aleesah Darlison is an award-winning author, naturalist, and life-long learner. A keen observer of birds and animals, Aleesah enjoys sharing her passion and knowledge for the natural world and the environment. She has also made it her mission to champion the cause of children and loves writing stories that empower, educate, and inspire readers to celebrate their uniqueness and their strengths.
Aleesah has written over sixty-five books for children including picture books, chapter books, novels, and series. She has won or been shortlisted for many awards including the Book Excellence Awards, the Environment Award for Children’s Literature, the CBCA Awards, the Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards, and WAYBRA.
Her novels include Grace the Amazing, the Super Sloth Series, the Space Kids Series, the League of Llamas Series, the Unicorn Riders Series, the Netball Gems Series, and the Little Witch Series. Her picture books include the Endangered Animal Tales Series, Warambi, Puggle’s Problem, Fox & Moonbeam, The Dream Bird, Our Class Tiger, Stripes in the Forest: The Story of the Last Wild Thylacine, and Emerald: The Green Turtle’s Tale.
Aleesah travels extensively, delivering talks and workshops to children and adults at schools, preschools, libraries, literary festivals, and writers’ centres.
