The Garden of Broken Things
a CBCA 2025 shortlisted title from Australia's award-winning children's author and illustrator full of kindness and compassion
$22.95
- Hardcover
32 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2024
Summary
One day, curious Sadie follows a cat into the tangled vines behind the lonely house at Number 9, Ardent Street.
Deep in the undergrowth, past all the twisted, rusted things, Sadie finds the cat sitting on the lap of a woman, bent with time and weariness.
Sadie has found the Garden of Broken Things.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781460757550 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1460757556 |
| Author: | Freya Blackwood |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 32 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 390g |
| Dimensions: | 283mm x 233mm x 10mm |
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About The Author
Freya Blackwood
Freya Blackwood is a multi-award-winning illustrator and writer. Her picture books are beloved for her warm and perceptive drawings. Since publishing her first picture book in 2003, Freya has worked with writers such as Libby Gleeson, Margaret Wild, Jan Ormerod, Nick Bland and Danny Parker.
In 2010, Freya won the UK’s most prestigious prize for illustrators, the Kate Greenaway Medal, for her book Harry and Hopper. And in 2015 she did what no other creator has ever done, taking out three CBCA Book of the Year awards in a single year. The Unwilling Twin was shortlisted for Picture Book of the Year in the 2021 CBCA Awards.
Freya lives in Orange, New South Wales, with her daughter, Ivy.
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