Bonus: Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year: Picture Book winner
My strange shrinking parents: being: a picture story told in
38 pages
Written & drawn by Zeno Sworder.
Thames and Hudson, 2022.
Oh my word. This is heart-breaking.
The metaphor of shrinking yourself to fit is blown apart in this.
The giving and giving and giving and giving of yourself.
A book by a winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award:
Daytime visions: an alphabet.
By Isol; adapted in English by Isol and Elisa Amado.
Enchanted Lion, 2016.
I found the creator's reflection on how to adapt her work into another language fascinating.
How language - and alphabets - frame our thinking.
A book by a winner of the IBBY Hans Christian Andersen Award:
The great piratical rumbustification; &, the librarian
and the robbers.
Written by Margaret Mahy; with pictures by Quentin Blake.
Dent, 1978.
It will always be Margaret Mahy!
This time, I've included another HCA winner: Quentin Blake.
Why this book? Well, it's really the second story: "The Librarian and the Robbers."
I wish I had Serena Laburnum's sangfroid.
I do have a t-shirt with a Miss Laburnum quote on it (thanks to my manager.)
AND the memory of spending time with Margaret Mahy. Including at this gathering for her 70th birthday, where we are admiring the bracelet I made for her.
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