Once there was a boy who had to leave home… and find another.
In his bag he carried a book, a bottle and a blanket.
In his teacup he held some earth from where he used to play.
This is one boy’s story of leaving his homeland, surviving a long journey by sea … and finding a safe, new place to call home.
Rebecca Young is an award-winning author from Sydney. Teacup (illustrated by Matt Ottley) won the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, 2016, and was named an IBBY Australia Honour Book for Illustration, 2018. Teacup has been published in the US, France, Italy, China, Spain, South Korea and Russia.
Photo courtesy of Scholastic Australia
Matt Ottley is a multi-modal artist working across the fields of visual arts, music and literature. He is an award-winning picture book writer and illustrator, with 25 picture books published. He spent his childhood in Papua New Guinea, and has travelled widely throughout Australia and the world. As a teenager and during his early twenties he worked as a stockman on remote cattle stations in the Australian outback, before studying fine arts and music. He lived for three years in Britain working as an equestrian painter, painting some of Britain’s finest racehorses and polo ponies.
He is now one of Australia’s most popular children’s author/illustrators, and has been published in several different languages around the world. His book and musical work for young adults, Requiem for a Beast was awarded the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Picture Book of the Year in 2008, and the Queensland Premier’s Award for Young Adult Literature in the same year. His picture book, What Faust Saw was an international best seller. Matt has also worked as a professional flamenco and classical guitarist. He is currently working on two large-scale orchestral projects that will also have visual and literature components.
Photo © Tina Wilson, courtesy of Penguin Random House
Author Rebecca Young
Illustrator Matt Ottley
Publisher Scholastic Australia
Date of Publication 2018
ISBN 9781743623855
Category Children's Books
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