Junkyard Fairies 2: Set Sail

It’s different, it’s whimsical, it has a gentle underlying message about conservation and recycling and upcycling, and it reminded me a little of S. A. Wakefield’s classic Bottersnikes and Gumbles and probably as far as you can get from the traditional image of glittery, magic-spreading fairies. * The Bottom Shelf *

Edwina Wyatt is an award-winning Australian children’s author. She grew up in Sydney, and worked as a lawyer and a high school teacher before becoming a writer of books for young readers. Her debut junior fiction novel was The Secrets of Magnolia Moon. This title grew to become a trilogy. Her most recent title is Cub and Brown. Edwina lives in the Victorian High Country with her husband and two children. She has a passion for horses, paddocks and pine trees, and is an “aspiring” vegetable gardener and pianist (although she cannot read music…). Some of her favourite authors include David Almond, Arnold Lobel, Virginia Woolf, Astrid Lindgren, Michelle Cuevas, Kate DiCamillo and A.A. Milne.

Lauren O’Hara is an illustrator from the north of England. As a child she loved reading fairy tales, painting insects and listening to her grandmother’s stories. She studied art and illustration at Kingston University and then designed window displays and props for films. Lauren’s career as an illustrator began when she and her sister, Natalia worked together on a picture book, Hortense and the Shadow. This was published in 2017 and followed in 2018 by The Bandit Queen. Lauren lives in a converted church in Dublin, Ireland with her partner, their cat Ida and assorted ghosts. She is the illustrator of Madame Badobedah by Sophie Dahl.

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