It starts with one little goat.
It ends with one little goat.
But what happens in between is a whirlwid of nonsense and fun.
International favourites Ursula Dubosarsky and Andrew Joyner make the most of their advanced sense of the ridiculous in this hilarious read-aloud traditional tale.
Ursula Dubosarsky was born in Sydney and wanted to be a writer from the age of six. She is now the author of over 60 books for children and young adults. She has won many national prizes, including the NSW, Victorian, South Australian and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, the Children’s Book Council Book of the Year Award, and has been nominated for the international Hans Christian Anderson and Astrid Lindgren awards for children’s literature. Her books have been published widely across the world and translated into fourteen different languages.
Ursula is the Australian Children’s Laureate 2020–2021.
Photo by Vicki Skarratt, courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Andrew Joyner is an Australian illustrator and cartoonist. In 2009 his first picture book, The Terrible Plop, written by Ursula Dubosarsky, was published. The book was shortlisted for many awards, including the CBCA Book of the Year 2010 and the PM’s Literary Awards 2010. In 2013, Andrew illustrated Jan Ormerod’s The Swap, which won the 2014 CBCA Book of the Year, and has been translated into 14 languages. Andrew has achieved huge success in both Australia and overseas with his Little Hare titles — What’s the Matter, Aunty May, One Little Goat and Yobbos do Yoga — and, more recently with The Pink Hat, published by Penguin Random House. Along with his children’s book work, Andrew illustrates regularly for newspapers and magazines, both locally and internationally. He lives in Strathalbyn, South Australia, with his family and nineteen pets.
Photo courtesy of Hardie Grant Publishing
Author Ursula Dubosarsky
Illustrator Andrew Joyner
Publisher Hardie Grant
Date of Publication 2017
ISBN 9781742976921
Category Children's Books
