Fiona Wood's Wildlife wins a Book of the Year prize in Children's Book Council awards

By Karen Hardy
Updated August 21 2014 - 10:23am, first published August 15 2014 - 3:04pm
Author Fiona Wood won the Older Readers category of the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards with her book <i>Wildlife</i>. Photo: Jay Cronan
Author Fiona Wood won the Older Readers category of the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards with her book <i>Wildlife</i>. Photo: Jay Cronan

Reading was something of an escape hatch for author Fiona Wood during her teenage years as she dealt with the everyday issues that trouble young adults.