Publisher's synopsis
A magnificent and arresting picture book that goes to the heart of human relationships.
Dog and Magpie are friends, but when Fox comes into the bush, everything changes.
This breathtaking story has won acclaim around the world: CBCA Picture Book of the Year; two Premiers’ literary awards; honours in Germany, Brazil, Japan; a shortlisting for the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal in the UK, and more.
Awards
- Winner 2000 APA Design Awards for Scholastic Australia Best Designed Children’s Book
- Winner 2001 Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature (NSW Premier’s Literary Awards)
- Winner 2001 Queensland Premier’s Literary Award in the Best Children’s Book category
- Winner 2001 CBCA Picture Book of the Year
- Winner 2004 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (Germany’s Premier Children’s Book Awards)
- Winner 2006 Best Translation for Children in the Brazilian branch of the International board on Books for Young People (IBBY), the Fundacao Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil (FNLIJ)
Illustrator
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Margaret Wild is one of Australia’s most-loved picture book authors.
She has written over twenty books, many of which have appeared in foreign editions. All have been highly acclaimed. Jenny Angel (which was inspired by her brother’s death at the age of seven), illustrated by Anne Spudvilas, Fox, illustrated by Ron Brooks and The Very Best of Friends, illustrated by Julie Vivas are all winners of the CBC Picture Book of the Year Award. Her most recent picture book with Penguin is The Treasure Box.
Margaret was born in Eshowe, a small town in South Africa. She now lives in Sydney.
Photo courtesy of Penguin Random House Australia
Ron Brooks spent his childhood in Mallacoota, Victoria. Now he writes, designs and illustrates picture books for kids. He has made many books over the thirty or so years he has been working, has won many awards, including the Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Award (three times) and is published in many languages around the world. Two of his earlier books, The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek and John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat, both written by Jenny Wagner, are widely recognised as the books which introduced Australian picture books onto the world scene. Two of his more recent books, and perhaps his own personal favourites, are Old Pig and Fox, both written by Margaret Wild. He has also been a teacher, and he paints, sculpts, and does a bit of printmaking.
