Publisher's synopsis
It’s raining up north and soon everything will change for the desert lake.
The dry salt bed of Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre shimmers in the desert heat. But far up north, the rains have come. Water is flooding into empty riverbeds and swirling down towards the lake. Soon everything will change.
A wonderful new addition to the acclaimed and award-winning Nature Storybook series, which provides memorable reading experiences, combining narrative and factual forms.
Awards
- Environment Award for Children’s Literature, Fiction (2017) – Short-listed
- NSW Premier’s History Awards, Young People’s History Prize (2017) – Short-listed
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature (2017) – Short-listed
- Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards, 5-8 Years (2017) – Short-listed
- CBCA Book of the Year Awards, Eve Pownall Award for Information Books (2017) – Long-listed
- CBCA Book of the Year Awards, Picture Book (2017) – Long-listed
- Educational Publishing Awards Australia, Educational Picture or Chapter Book (2017) – Short-listed
Pamela Freeman is an award-winning author who has also worked as a freelance business and technical writer. Pamela’s work ranges from picture books to adult novels and she is best known for her Floramonde series of fantasy novels. The Castings Trilogy is Pamela’s highly successful fantasy series for adults published by Hachette Australia. In addition to this, she teaches creative writing to adults at the Australian Writers’ Centre. Victor’s Challenge won the 2009 Aurealis Award for Best Children’s Short Fiction/Illustrated Work/Picture Book and was a Notable Book in the Younger Readers Category, CBCA Awards, 2010. Mary’s Australia was shortlisted for the 2015 CBCA Eve Pownall Award.
Bio: Walker Books Australia
Photo: Courtesy of Hachette Australia
Liz Anelli once had a job dusting dinosaurs at London’s Natural History Museum. Nowadays she draws every day and illustrates picture books; combining collage, printmaking and paint into digitally composed artworks. These have collected numerous shortlistings and awards. In between books, she creates quirky illustrated maps. Having spent ten glorious years in Australia, she and her husband are now living in Cambridge, England. Liz loves sharing her passion for making pictures at festivals, libraries and schools around the world.
Bio and photo: Walker Books Australia
