Violet Mackerel thinks she would quite like to own the blue china bird at the Saturday markets. This is not just a silly wish. It is instead the start of a very important idea. But what she needs is a plot. A brilliant plot. Introducing readers to a new warm and loveable character, Violet Mackerel’s Brilliant Plot is a story not to be missed.
Shortlisted, CBCA Awards: Younger Reader’s Category, 2011
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Anna Branford was born in the Isle of Man and spent her early childhood in Sudan and Papua New Guinea before moving to Australia. Creative writing was her favourite subject at school and she wrote stories in all these different countries. Anna is a doll maker and a sociology lecturer at Victoria University. Violet Mackerel’s Brilliant Plot was her first published work for Walker Books Australia and was Honour book in the Children’s Book Council of Australia, Book of the Year Awards, Younger Readers Notable Books for 2011.
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Sarah Davis grew up in New Zealand, wearing gumboots and falling in rivers. She worked as a secondary school teacher before moving to Sydney. Sarah is a very busy, award-winning illustrator who has collaborated with a number of leading authors in Australia, New Zealand and America. Sarah won the 2009 Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Crichton Award for Best New Illustrator, and most recently, illustrated the title Fearless, written by Colin Thompson, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards. Violet Mackerel’s Brilliant Plot was Honour Book for the 2011 CBCA Book of the Year Award – Younger Reader’s Category.
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Author Anna Branford
Illustrator Sarah Davis
Publisher Walker Books Australia
Date of Publication 2010
ISBN 9781921529177
Category Children's Books
