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
Click here to read more about Ron Brooks.
Margaret Wild was born in South Africa and came to Australia in 1972. She has been a journalist on newspapers and magazines, and she worked as a book editor in children’s publishing for sixteen years, responsible for managing and commissioning a large range of titles. She lives in Sydney and now writes full-time.
Margaret has written more than 70 books for children. Her books are published around the world and have won numerous awards.
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.
