Aaron Blabey

Aaron Blabey (born 1974), an Australian author of children's books and artist who until the mid-2000s was also an actor. His award winning picture books include Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley and The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon. 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.

In 2012, he was the National Literacy Ambassador.

He is an ambassador for The Alannah and Madeline Foundation, a national Australian charity protecting children from violence.

His book The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon won the Patricia Wrightson Award in the 2013 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.

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