Illustrated by Freya Blackwood. Published by Little Hare 2013.
Banjo is a hard-working farm dog and Ruby Red is a haughty chicken, and they never see eye to eye. Can they ever be friends? A funny and touching story of antagonism and love.
CBCA Early Childhood Honour Book 2014.
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Books were hugely important to Libby Gleeson as a child, and have remained the focus of her adult life. Libby’s fiction and picture books have won multiple awards, including CBCA short-listings and wins, the Bologna Ragazzi Award in 2000, and the Prime Minister’s Award in 2013. For her services to children’s literature, Libby has been honoured with the Lady Cutler Award (1997), Member of the Order of Australia (2007), the Dromkeen Medal (2011) and the Nan Chauncy Award (2015).
Photo courtesy of Hardie Grant Publishing
Freya Blackwood is a multi-award-winning illustrator and writer. Her picture books are beloved for her warm and perceptive drawings. Since publishing her first picture book in 2003, Freya has worked with writers such as Libby Gleeson, Margaret Wild, Jan Ormerod, Nick Bland and Danny Parker.
In 2010, Freya won the UK’s most prestigious prize for illustrators, the Kate Greenaway Medal, for her book Harry and Hopper. And in 2015 she did what no other creator has ever done, taking out three CBCA Book of the Year awards in a single year. The Unwilling Twin was shortlisted for Picture Book of the Year in the 2021 CBCA Awards.
Freya lives in Orange, New South Wales, with her daughter, Ivy.
Photo courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Author Libby Gleeson
Illustrator Freya Blackwood
Publisher Hardie Grant Publishing, Little Hare
Date of Publication 2013
ISBN 9781921541087
Category Children's Books
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