Blue Flower

Blue Flower
Sonya Hartnett
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Hardback
Not defined - 36pg
2 Mar 2021 AU
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9781760894450
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A gentle exploration of a child' s realisation that it is her individual differences and creativity that make her special, with stunning illustrations by the talented Gabriel Evans that delicately and sensitively convey the child' s emotional journey. A young child describes her qualms about going to school and how hard she finds asking the teacher for help, how she feels shy about making friends, not being funny or a fast runner. But through her love of art, a conversation with her mother and her observations about nature she comes to see that being different might not be a bad thing after all. I lay down and put my nose in the grass. The grass was dotted with yellow flowers, but blue ones grew there too. I rolled over and looked at the trees and the clouds, and thought about things for a while. ' Not all clouds are white,' I said, and Piccolo looked at me. ' Not all trees are tall. Not all birds are brown. Not all cats are tabby like you, Piccolo. Some are black. Some are orange. Some are calico. ' Piccolo swished his stripy tail. I plucked a flower and showed it to him. ' This flower isn' t yellow, but it isn' t wrong. It is what it' s supposed to be. No one would want it to be yellow. Everyone would say it' s lovely just the way it is. ' A beautifully told story about being happy in yourself for who you are from one of Australia' s finest writers.
Sonya Hartnett (Author) Sonya Hartnett' s work has won numerous Australian and international literary prizes and has been published around the world. Uniquely, she is acclaimed for her stories for adults, young adults and children. Her accolades include the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Of A Boy), The Age Book of the Year (Of A Boy), the Guardian Children' s Fiction Prize (Thursday' s Child), the Children' s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for both Older and Younger Readers (Forest, The Silver Donkey, The Ghost' s Child, The Midnight Zoo and The Children of the King), the Victorian Premier' s Literary Award (Surrender), shortlistings for the Miles Franklin Award (for both Of a Boy and Butterfly) and the CILP Carnegie Medal (The Midnight Zoo). Hartnett is also the first Australian recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2008). Golden Boys, Sonya' s third novel for adults, was shortlisted for the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award and she also published her third picture book, The Wild One in 2014. Gabriel Evans (Illustrator) Gabriel Evans is a Western Australian children' s book author and illustrator. Working primarily in watercolour and pencil, he creates books from a small studio near a river, surrounded by oak trees. His books are published internationally and translated in three languages. Blue Flower by Sonya Hartnett is his first picture book with Penguin Random House. Gabriel is an avid tea drinker and sketchbook scribbler.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781760894450
Published: 2 Mar 2021
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Puffin
Publisher: Penguin Books Australia
Format: Hardback
Weight: 460g
Pages: 36

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