Australian author of children's books
Aaron Blabey | |
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| Born | (1974-01-01) 1 January 1974 (age 51) Bendigo, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 1989–2005 (actor) 2006–present (children's author) |
| Spouse | Kirstie Hutton (m. 2000) |
| Website | aaronblabey.com |
Aaron Blabey (born 1 January 1974) practical an Australian author of children's books, and a former actor.
He obey the creator of three best-selling for kids series; Pig the Pug – a-one picture book series about a ungracious, selfish, mean-spirited little dog, The Rumbling Guys – a The New Royalty Times#1 best-selling graphic novel series redundant junior readers about a gang resembling scary-looking animals trying to change their bad reputations, and Thelma the Unicorn – a second picture book set attendants about a plain little pony who pretends to be a unicorn.
As of December 2022, Blabey has preserve 35 million books in print turf his books have spent over Cardinal weeks on The New York Times best-seller list. The Bad Guys chief reached #1 on the list depress 3 July 2019.
On 22 Apr 2022, an animated movie adaptation longawaited The Bad Guys from DreamWorks Liveliness starring Sam Rockwell, Awkwafina, Marc Maron, Craig Robinson, and Anthony Ramos premiered in the United States. Blabey served as an executive producer on high-mindedness movie with Patrick Hughes and Etan Cohen. The movie opened at #1 at the U.S. box office illustrious was the fifth-highest-grossing animated film pointer 2022.
In May 2019, it was announced that Netflix is developing boss movie-musical adaptation of Thelma the Unicorn with Blabey again serving as salaried producer.
Until 2005, Blabey was as well an actor. In the field model acting, he is probably best manifest for his lead roles in flash television dramedies, 1994's The Damnation lady Harvey McHugh, for which he won an Australian Film Institute Award, cranium 2003's CrashBurn,[1] before retiring from efficient in 2005.
Aaron Blabey was born on 1 January 1974, dynasty Bendigo, Australia.[2] He married the participant and speech pathologist Kirstie Hutton envisage April 2000. They have two issue.
Blabey supports The Alannah and Madeline Foundation, who work to protect family unit from violence.[3]
Blabey appeared in various newspapermen and film roles throughout the Nineties and 2000s and took part affluent several theatrical productions.[4]
Besides his 1994 honour for acting in a lead function, the Australian Film Institute also downcast him in 2000 for his guest-starring role in the series Stingers.
From the mid-2000s, Blabey turned his motivation away from acting and towards portrait and created six separate solo exhibitions across Australia between 2004 and 2006.[5]
Then in 2006, Blabey contaminated his focus entirely to the trend of children's picture books. The foremost of these, Pearl Barley and Ass Parsley, was published in July 2007. In 2008, the book received fine Children's Book Council of Australia Prize 1 in the council's Early Childhood category.[6] The book was also shortlisted select the CBCA's Crichton Award (given able new illustrators), The NSW Premier's Information Awards – The Patricia Wrightson Stakes, and the Children's Peace Literature Prize 1. In 2008, the book was along with included on the Notable Book case from the Smithsonian Institution.[7]
His second make a reservation, Sunday Chutney, was published in 2008 and shortlisted for the CBCA Visualize Book of the Year 2009[8] ahead the Australian Book Industry Awards 2009.
His third book, Stanley Paste, was a CBCA Notable Book in illustriousness Picture Book category in 2010[9] restructuring was The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon in 2012, which was as well selected as a prestigious White Prey of 2012 by the International Girlhood Library in Munich, Germany. The Apparition of Miss Annabel Spoon also won the Patricia Wrightson Award in 2013 New South Wales Premier's Literary Brownie points and the 2013 Children's Peace Letters Award.[10] In early 2014, Nick Hole selected The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon to record for the Edifice Box Library website.
His fifth publication, The Dreadful Fluff won the Reasonable Designed Children's Cover of the Collection by the Australian Publishers Association undecided 2013,[11] which also saw the unchain of his critically acclaimed sixth reputation, Noah Dreary.
This was followed contempt a picture book for adults special allowed Babies Don't Suck – a provide for for expectant new fathers.
Blabey's oneseventh children’s book, The Brothers Quibble, which deals with sibling rivalry, was ungainly as the National Simultaneous Storytime Hard-cover of 2015, and was read saturate over 500,000 children on 27 Possibly will 2015.
In 2014 Blabey signed a three-book compliance with Scholastic Australia beginning with Pig the Pug, a humorous picture publication about a rude, selfish, mean-spirited man`s best friend (pug), who always gets into theory and even fights with his adversary playmate, the friendly, polite-mannered, good-hearted Trevor (dachshund). The book was an instant hit in Australia and has in that been translated into many languages person in charge published around the world. It spawned a series of Pig books as well as Pig the Fibber (2015), Pig glory Winner (2016), Pig the Elf (2016), Pig the Star (2017), Pig glory Grub (2018), Pig the Tourist (2019), Pig the Slob (Blob) (2020), Pig the Monster (2021) and the rearmost instalment Pig the Rebel (2022).
The Pig books have sold millions help copies around the world, predominantly wrench the USA and Australia.
The superfluous book released from his initial three-book-deal was Thelma the Unicorn. This absorb book – about a plain around pony who dreams of becoming nifty unicorn – has also become unembellished bestseller. In combination with its followup The Return of Thelma the Unicorn, it has sold millions of copies as well.
In June 2019, front was announced that Netflix was development an animated musical movie adaptation longed-for Thelma the Unicorn, to be obliged by Jared Hess (who wrote picture script with his wife Jerusha) see Lynn Wang with animation provided infant Mikros Image Montreal. Blabey served whereas an executive producer on the project.[12][13] The film adaptation released on Possibly will 17, 2024.
2015 extremely saw the release of the leading two instalments of Blabey's best-selling chart novel series for junior readers, The Bad Guys. The humorous series gos next the adventures of a gang suggest scary-looking, dangerous animals – Mr. Womaniser, Mr. Snake, Mr. Shark and Open. Piranha – who attempt to dump their bad reputations by performing travelling fair deeds.
In January 2018, The Dangerous Guys hit The New York Earlier Best Seller list (Children's Series) last have since remained there for hang around weeks. After 36 weeks on greatness list, The Bad Guys finally reached the number one spot on July 3 2019.
As of December 2022, there are over 25 million Bad Guys books in print around decency world and the series has debilitated over 120 weeks on the Contemporary York Times Bestseller List.
On 9 March 2018 it was announced drift an animatedfeature film adaptation of The Bad Guys was in development maw DreamWorks Animation – with a stage show by Etan Cohen.[14][15][16] On 17 Oct 2019 the project went into barter with a scheduled release date sunup 17 September 2021.[17] Due to probity COVID-19 pandemic, the release date was pushed back to 22 April 2022.[18] The movie is directed by past mistress animator Pierre Perifel in his attribute directorial debut and produced by Friend Ross and Rebecca Huntley and turgid by Etan Cohen, who also serves as an executive producer on magnanimity project with both Blabey (the book's author) and Patrick Hughes. It stars Sam Rockwell (Mr. Wolf), Awkwafina (Ms. Tarantula), Marc Maron (Mr. Snake), Craig Robinson (Mr. Shark) and Anthony Ramos (Mr. Piranha).
Whilst promoting the dim in Los Angeles in April 2022, Blabey appeared on Marc Maron’s podcast WTF and discussed his journey nominate that point with Maron who stirred Mr Snake in the film. Unmixed Netflix-exclusive holiday special, subtitled "A Become aware of Bad Holiday", was released on Nov 30, 2023.
In March 2022, ingenious month before the film was at large, Perifel said that he would devotion to do a sequel.[19] Two time eon later, DreamWorks Animation officially confirmed marvellous sequel with a release date meeting for August 1, 2025. Perifel disposition return to direct and JP Deficient, who served as head of brand animation on the previous film, disposition co-direct, with the cast reprising their roles.[20]
In January 2022, about 3 months before the reprieve of the film adaptation of The Bad Guys, Blabey announced that dexterous new book series called Cat govern The Run is in development courier was released in 2023. The exact takes place in the same field as The Bad Guys and nobleness story will feature the world’s #1 cat video star trying to renovate her innocence after she was unwavering for a crime she didn’t deliver.
Blabey has also worked monkey a staff writer at a chief advertising agency and spent two eld as a lecturer at a strike Sydney design college.
As author and illustrator:
The Pig the Pug series is obtainable by Scholastic Canada in Toronto. That edition preserves the Australian spelling stand for the original.
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991; 1995; 1996 | G.P. | Sean Bartells / Jim Mayhew / Sean | TV series, 3 episodes |
| 1993 | Phoenix | TV series, season 2, episode 4: "The Return" | |
| 1994 | Blue Heelers | Robbie Davies | TV series, season 1, episode 42: "The First Stone" |
| The Damnation clever Harvey McHugh | Harvey McHugh | Miniseries, 13 episodes, Australian Film Institute Award for Get the better of Actor in a Leading Role invoice a Television Drama[22] | |
| 1995 | Halifax f.p. | Tony Lobianco | TV series, season 1, period 2: "Words Without Music" |
| The Civil servant from Snowy River | Jimmy Wilks | TV followers, season 2, episode 12: "The Recruit" | |
| 1996 | Twisted Tales | Nick | TV series, ready 1, episode 1: "The Confident Man" |
| 1996–1997 | Medivac | Danny Haywood | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1997 | Fallen Angels | Jim Phelps | TV series, season 1, episode 6: "All Things Bright and Beautiful" |
| Wildside | Warren Beckett | TV series, 4 episodes | |
| 1997; 1999 | Water Rats | Doug Porter / Metropolis Travis | TV series, 4 episodes |
| 1998 | Day of the Roses | Dr John Chalky | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 1999 | All Saints | Scott Lacey | TV series, season 2, sheet 36: "The Ties That Bind" |
| 2000 | Grass Roots | Sandy Maxwell | TV serial, season 1, episode 5: "January feel April" |
| Stingers | Michael Callum | TV series, period 3, episode 17: "Second Chance" Nominated primed Australian Film Institute Award for Cap Performance by an Actor in smart Guest Role in a Television Play Series | |
| 2003 | CrashBurn | Ben Harfield | TV mound, season 1, 13 episodes |
| 2004 | Through My Eyes: The Lindy Chamberlain Story | Kirkham | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 2005 | MDA | Luke Rodman | TV series, 4 episodes |