Catherine Bateson has achieved an outstanding awards trifecta for her novels for young people. Rain May and Captain Daniel was the winner of the CBCA Book of the Year Award and Painted Love Letters was awarded a CBCA Honour Book recognition. Painted Love Letters was the winner of the 2003 Australian Family Therapists\\\' Award for Children\\\'s Literature and Rain May and Captain Daniel is also on their recommended reading list for therapists. Catherine also won the 2003 Queensland Premier\\\'s Literary Awards for Rain May and Captain Daniel. Both Painted Love Letters and Rain May and Captain Daniel were shortlisted for the NSW Premier\\\'s Awards. Catherine teaches creative writing, coordinates La Mama Poetica and is currently working on a third collection of poetry.
Painted Love Letters New South Wales Premiers Literary Awards (2003) Shortlisted - The Ethel Turner Prize for young people of secondary school level
Painted Love Letters The Childrens Book Council of Australia Awards (2003) Honour Book : Older Readers
Painted Love Letters Australian Family Therapists Award (2003) for Childrens/Youth Novel
Rain May and Captain Daniel New South Wales Premiers Literary Awards (2003) Shortlisted - The Patricia Wrighton Prize for children to secondary school level
Rain May and Captain Daniel The Childrens Book Council of Australia Awards (2003) Winner Book of the Year: Younger Readers
Rain May and Captain Daniel Recommended Reading (2003) for therapists by the Australian Family Therapists Award for Childrens Literature Committee childrens/youth novel
His Name in Fire CBCA Notable Book (2007) Notable Book - The Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards - Older Readers
Millie and the Night Heron YABBA Children's Choice Book Awards (2007) YABBA (Young Australians Best Book Award) Children's Choice Book Awards
Being Bee CBCA Book of the Year (2007) The Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards - Younger Readers
Being Bee Australian Family Therapists' Award for Children's Literature (2007) Australian Family Therapists' Award for Children's Literature - selected as a book suitable for therapists
Being Bee Queensland Premier's Literary Awards (2007) Queensland Premier's Literary Awards - Children's Book - The Dymocks Literary Foundation Award
