Publisher's synopsis
For all creatures – the great and the small, the winged and the walking, the singing and the silent – we are thankful.
This second collaboration by the award-winning team of Glenda Millard and Rebecca Cool is a celebration of the beauty and mystery of life in its many forms.
From the author and illustrator of the award-winning Isabella’s Garden, comes a new companion title which readers will fall in love with. Celebrating animals from all over the world, including the Australian marsupial, the echidna.
Award
Shortlisted in the Picture Book of the Year category of the 2012 CBCA awards.
Illustrator
Click here to read more about Rebecca Cool.
Glenda Millard is a writer of great talent who has the ability to write across all genres and age groups – from picture books to junior fiction to YA novels. Her first novel about the Silk family, The Naming of Tishkin Silk, was published in 2003 by ABC Books. It was shortlisted in the CBC Book of the Year Awards and for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. She has also had numerous picture books and children’s novels published, including, most recently, Duck, Apple, Egg, illustrated by Martina Heiduczek.
Photo courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Born in Western Australia, artist and illustrator Rebecca Cool lives on a rural property on the Margaret River, WA with her partner. Rebecca has studied at the Claremont School of Fine Art and has had her work shown at a number of exhibitions. Rebecca is happiest when she is painting and creating her charming, colourful and playful compositions. Her work features a combination of acrylic paint and fabric collage, and her strong, colourful works have a naïve charm reminiscent of European folk art. Isabella’s Garden (written by Glenda Millard) is her first book and has received many awards including Honour Book, Picture Book of the Year category, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards, 2010. Rebecca was also shortlisted for the Crichton Award in 2010.
