About me.
Anna McGregor is an award-winning author, illustrator and designer creating picture books filled with humour and heart. With a background in graphic design and a self-taught path into writing and illustration, she enjoys flipping familiar ideas on their head and pushing the boundaries of what a picture book can do.
Her book Who’s Afraid of the Light? was recognised internationally with a White Raven selection and inclusion in the dPictus 100 Outstanding Picture Books, and has received honours including the Yellowhammer Book Award for Picture Book of the Year and the Red Clover Book Award.
Anna grew up in regional Australia, worked as a graphic designer in London, and now lives in Melbourne with her family.
My Books
FLY, MAMA, FLY!
Scribe Publications, Scribble. 2025.
SPIRO
Scribe Publications, Scribble. July 2024.
BUSY BUBS: PARK PLAY
Little Book Press. July 2024.
WHO'S AFRAID OF THE LIGHT?
Scribe Publications, Scribble. May 2023.
A PAIR OF PEARS AND AN ORANGE – Author, Illustrator & Designer
Scribe Publications, Scribble. June 2021.
ANEMONE IS NOT THE ENEMY – Author, Illustrator & Designer
Scribe Publications, Scribble. November 2020.
COLOUROOS – Author, Illustrator & Designer
Hachette Australia, Lothian Children’s Books. April 2019.
Awards
2025
🌟 Winner of the CBCA Children’s Book of the Year Awards Shadow Judging
🌟 Shortlisted in the Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards
🌟 Yellowhammer Book Awards Picture Book of the Year (Alabama, USA)
🌟 Red Clover Book Award (Vermont, USA)
🌟 CBCA Shortlisted for Spiro
🌟 Joint Winner ABDA Best Designed Children's Book Series for Off To The Market Series
🌟 Shortlisted ABDA Best Designed Children's Book for Spiro
🌟 Shortlisted ABIA Small Publisher Children's Book for Spiro
🌟 Artist residency at Jackie Winter Gardens
2024
🌟 White Raven (Globally) for Who's Afraid of the Light?
🌟 dPictus 100 outstanding picture books (Globally) for Who's Afraid of the Light?
🌟 Winner ABDA Book of the Year for Who's Afraid of the Light?
🌟 Winner ABDA Best Designed Children's Book for Who's Afraid of the Light?
🌟 Shortlisted ABIA Best Children’s Book (Small Publisher)
🌟 Shortlisted Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 Children’s Literature 2024
🌟 The Guardian: The best Australian children’s books of 2023
2023
🌟 Winner of Best Children’s Reader in the Whitley Book Awards for Who's Afraid of the Light.
2022
🌟 UK Teach Primary Book Awards Early Years runner up for A Pair of Pears and an Orange.
🌟 Speech Pathology Australia Children's Book of the Year Awards – 3–5 year–old category for A Pair of Pears and an Orange.
🌟 CBCA Notable in the Children's Book of the Year Awards for A Pair of Pears and an Orange.
🌟 ABIA Awards Small Publishers' Children's Book of the Year Longlist for A Pair of Pears and an Orange.
2021
🌟 CBCA Honour Winner in the Children's Book of the Year Awards for Anemone is Not the Enemy.
🌟 Winner of the CBCA Children’s Book of the Year Awards Shadow Judging
🌟 ABIA Awards Small Publishers' Children's Book of the Year Longlist for Anemone is Not the Enemy.
2020
🌟 SCWBI Crystal Kite Awards Finalist for Colouroos.
2019
🌟 Highly Commended in the CYA Awards, published category.
🌟 Shortlisted in the Picture Book competition of the Writers Unleashed Festival.
Membership
• SCBWI (Society Childrens Book Writers & Illustrators)
• CBCA Victoria Branch
• ASA (Australian Society of Authors)
• ABDA (Australian Book Design Association)