A beautiful, award-winning picture book by much-loved children's book creators Alison Lester and Coral Tulloch about the remote and precious World Heritage site, Macquarie Island, and the battle to save it from environmental destruction.
Alison Lester (Author)
Alison Lester is one of Australia's most popular and bestselling
creators of children's books. Her picture books mix imaginary
worlds with everyday life, encouraging children to believe in
themselves and celebrate the differences that make them
special.
In a career spanning decades, Alison Lester has written many books,
and won numerous prestigious awards, including the Children's Book
Council of Australia (CBCA) Picture Book of the Year Award for her
much-loved classic Are We There Yet? and the CBCA Eve Pownall Book
of the Year Award for One Small Island. Her picture books include
Kissed by the Moon, Running with the Horses, Sophie Scott Goes
South and My Dog Bigsy - to name just a few. Alison Lester became
Australia's first Children's Book Laureate in 2012, a position
shared with Boori Monty Pryor. In 2016, Alison was awarded the
Dromkeen Medal for her outstanding achievement in the creation of
Australian children's and young adult literature, and in 2018 she
became the first children's book writer to win the Melbourne Prize
for Literature, for her contribution to Australian literature and
cultural and intellectual life.
Alison lives on a farm in the Victorian countryside. She spends
part of each year travelling to schools around Australia, helping
students and teachers develop their own stories.
Coral Tulloch (Illustrator)
Coral Tulloch has illustrated over 50 fiction and non-fiction books
for children, in Australia and internationally.
She is the creator of a syndicated page for children, 'The Tales of
Wombat Creek', which appeared for over 20 years in newspapers
throughout Australia and overseas. Her book Antarctica, The Heart
of the World, which she wrote and illustrated, won the Environment
Award for Children's Literature in 2004.
As well as having a passion for environmental education, Coral
loves Antarctica, which she visits when she can as
artist-in-residence on tourist voyages; but recently drawings of
penguins have given way to tortoise shells.
Coral lives in Hobart with her husband, Peter and daughter, Tully.
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