Publisher's synopsis
Who sank the boat? Was it the cow or the donkey or the sheep with her knitting? Surely it wasn’t the tiny little mouse?
Winner of the 1983 Australian Picture Book of the Year Award, this wonderfully illustrated book is designed for sharing aloud and will make children giggle as they guess which animal spoilt a day’s rowing by sinking the boat.
Awards
- Winner in 1983 CBC Book of the Year (Picture Book)
- Joint winner in 1983 CBC Book of the Year (Children’s Book)
- Honour in 1984 International Board on books for young people (for Illustration)
- Winner in 2001 Gaylene Gordon Memorial Prize (Children’s Book)
- Short-listed in 2003 Kids Own Literature Award (KOALA) (Young Reader)
Pamela Allen is a phenomenon in the world of children’s literature. Since her first publication in 1980, her picture books have enchanted generations of children around the world, and have garnered a glittering array of awards and commendations including six Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards, two New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, an International Board on Books for Young People Diploma for Illustration, the Margaret Mahy Medal, New Zealand’s most prestigious award for children’s literature, and most recently The Gaylene Gordon Award for a Much Loved Book from the Children’s Literature Foundation of New Zealand.
Pamela’s books are full of the music of language; they are ‘fragments of theatre’, designed to be read aloud and shared between an adult and a child. Patch Theatre Company of Adelaide has created three theatrical performances from a selection of Pamela’s books. These have toured throughout Australia and New Zealand, performing to packed houses.
Bio: Penguin Random House Australia
Photo: Pamela Allen, courtesy of Penguin Random House Australia
