My Two Blankets

Teacher Resource

Publisher's synopsis

Cartwheel has moved to a place that is so strange to her, she no longer feels like herself.

This is a story about new ways of speaking, new ways of living, new ways of being.

Awards

Winner of the 2015 Children’s Book Council Award for Picture Books.
Shortlisted for the 2015 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Children’s Books.

Illustrator

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Irena Kobold has been a teacher and writer in the Northern Territory. She has a Master’s degree in Russian.

Freya Blackwood is a multi-award-winning illustrator and writer. Her picture books are beloved for her warm and perceptive drawings. Since publishing her first picture book in 2003, Freya has worked with writers such as Libby Gleeson, Margaret Wild, Jan Ormerod, Nick Bland and Danny Parker.

In 2010, Freya won the UK’s most prestigious prize for illustrators, the Kate Greenaway Medal, for her book Harry and Hopper. And in 2015 she did what no other creator has ever done, taking out three CBCA Book of the Year awards in a single year. The Unwilling Twin was shortlisted for Picture Book of the Year in the 2021 CBCA Awards.

Freya lives in Orange, New South Wales, with her daughter, Ivy.

Photo courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers Australia