Media, Reviews & Awards
Awards & Accolades
Follow Your Gut: A Story from the Microbes that Make You
- Longlisted as a ‘Notable Book of 2025‘ by the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA)
- Winner: Bronze medal (Ledger) from the Comic Arts Awards of Australia
Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country
- Winner: Prime Minister’s Literary Award: Children’s Literature
- Shortlisted: 2024 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA): Information Book category
- Shortlisted: Karajia & Environment Awards for Children’s Literature
The Invisible War
- Winner: Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing: Most Outstanding Resource of the Year 2017 (Educational Publishing Awards Australia)
- Winner: Best Secondary Reference Resource 2017 (Educational Publishing Awards Australia)
- Winner: Best Designed Educational Primary/Secondary Book 2017 (Australian Book Design Awards)
- Winner: 2017 MUBA (Most Underrated Book Award)
- Winner: 2017 DeBary Children’s Science Book Award
- Longlisted: by Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) as a ‘Notable Book of 2017‘
- Shortlisted: 2017 Ledger Award (for Excellence in Australian Comics)
Zobi and the Zoox
- Winner: Whitley Medal 2019 (Royal Zoological Society NSW)
- Winner: Puggle (Children’s choice) award 2015 (Environmental Award for Children’s Literature)
- Finalist: DeBary Children’s Science Book Award 2015
- Shortlisted: Speech Pathology Australia – Book of the Year award 2015
The Squid, the Vibrio & the Moon
- Winner: Bronze medal in the Children’s eBook category in 2015 US Independent Publisher (IPPY) awards.
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Scale Free Network in the Media:
Some highlights of our interviews, reviews and media stories:
2026
Here We Are: Maps for finding meaning – audio offering by Gregory Crocetti
2024
ABC Science Show interview: Gut microbes comic combines science and fun
Readings Podcast: The Creators of Follow Your Gut in conversation
2023
ABC Late Night Live interview: Rethinking termites through Gurindji eyes (awarded a Koala Stamp!)
Mostly Microbes Review: Microbiology Books for Kids
Books+Publishing Review: Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country
ReadPlus Review: Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country
2021
Small Things Considered (American Society for Microbiology): review of Nema and the Xenos & The Forest in the Tree
2020
CBCA Reading Time: The Forest in the Tree: How Fungi Shape the Earth (Highly Recommended)
ABC Science Show interview: Young readers introduced to the fascinating world of fungi
Kirkus Reviews Perspective: Teen Titles That Put COVID-19 in Context
The Literature Base: Epidemics Booklist – review of The Invisible War
2019
ABC Science Show interview: Nema the nematode introduces children to the underground world of soil science
CSIRO Publishing: Whitley Awards 2019: Recognising the best of Australasian zoological literature
CBCA Reading Time: Review of Nema and the Xenos: A Story of Soil Cycles
Children’s Books Daily: Review of Nema and the Xenos: A Story of Soil Cycles
Kirkus Reviews: Starred review of The Invisible War
Booklist Online (American Library Association): review of The Invisible War
Pursuit: The Art of Inexplicable Eddies
2018
Creative Victoria Showcase Article: It’s a small world after all
Educational Publishing Awards Australia: Interview with Gregory Crocetti
Microbiology Australia: Review of Zobi and the Zoox: A Story of Coral Bleaching
Children’s Books Daily: Review of Zobi and the Zoox: A Story of Coral Bleaching
2017
Sydney Morning Herald: Turning Pages review by Jane Sullivan
ABC Radio National Books & Arts: Interview with Michael Cathcart
Books + Publishing (Think Australian): Profile of Scale Free Network
Sydney Morning Herald: Experimenta Make Sense Review
2016
Wild Melbourne: Feature article by Rachel Featherston
The Canberra Times: review of The Invisible War
Books+Publishing Magazine: The Invisible War review by Kevin Orrman-Rossiter
Reading Time (CBCA) review: The Invisible War
The Age newspaper: August 2016
2015
Reading Time (CBCA) review: The Squid, the Vibrio & the Moon
Books & Publishing Junior article (March 2015)
Reading Time (CBCA) review: Zobi and the Zoox
ABC Radio National Science Show: talking about Zobi and the Zoox
The Age newspaper: May 2015
2014
ABC Radio National Science Show: talking about The Squid, the Vibrio & the Moon
ABC Top Five Science Reads of 2014
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