Publisher's synopsis
A stunning anniversary edition of a beautiful and timeless award-winning classic from master of collage, Jeannie Baker.
A boy and his father travel in their boat, ‘Time Machine’, to a stretch of beach beside a primordial tropical rainforest. As the boy walks among the trees he imagines the forest as it might have been in the past. Dinosaurs emerge, barely perceptible, from a tangle of trunks and vines; the faint outlines of an Aboriginal child melt into a background of trees and in the final haunting scene the unspoiled vista readers have toured is overlaid with translucent images of a possible future civilisation.
Awards
- Australian Children’s Book Council: Picture Book of the Year – Honour Book Award 1988
- Young Australian’s Best Book Award: Picture Books 1988
- Earthworm Book Award: Friends of the Earth UK 1988
- Boston Globe Horn Book Magazine: Honour Book Award 1988
- Kids Own Australian Literature Award: 1990
- International Board of Books for Young People: Honour Book Award 1990
- Austrian Children’s Book Council: Honour Book Award 1996
