Publisher's synopsis
A heart-warming, tender junior novel about family, love, loss and home by the author of the wonderful When the Angels Came. Griffin Silk is an uncommon sort of boy, from an uncommon sort of family. The warm, loving home he shares with his father, grandmother and five big sisters (The Rainbow Girls) is marked by the aching absence of his mother and baby sister. Where have they gone and will they be coming home again? When Griffin starts school and meets Princess Layla the answers to his questions gently start to unfold. This unique, tender novel will captivate young readers and adults alike, with its warmth, honesty and beauty.
Awards
- Honour Book in the 2004 Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year: Younger Readers Award.
- Also shortlisted for the 2004 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards (Patricia Wrightson Prize).
Illustrator
Click here to read more about Caroline Magerl.
Glenda Millard is a writer of great talent who has the ability to write across all genres and age groups – from picture books to junior fiction to YA novels. Her first novel about the Silk family, The Naming of Tishkin Silk, was published in 2003 by ABC Books. It was shortlisted in the CBC Book of the Year Awards and for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. She has also had numerous picture books and children’s novels published, including, most recently, Duck, Apple, Egg, illustrated by Martina Heiduczek.
Photo courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Caroline Magerl was born in a small German town near Frankfurt and came to Australia when she was two. Soon after, in a suburban Sydney backyard, her parents built a yacht which became a home and way of life. Until Caroline was fourteen, the family sailed the east coast of Australia. At sixteen, Caroline joined another yacht, crossing the Tasman Sea to New Zealand. After the return voyage she worked as a cook, painting in her spare time. Caroline now works as an artist, illustrator and printmaker and received an ASA children’s picture book illustrators’ grant to work on Hasel and Rose. She has exhibited widely overseas and in Australia.
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