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The Croc and the Platypus

by Jackie Hosking and Marjorie Crosby-Fairall
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/01/2019

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An Australian reimagining of Edward Lear’s nonsense poem The Owl and the Pussycat.

The croc and the platypus trundled off in a rusty old Holden ute. They took some damper and tea in a hamper and bundled it up in the boot. Join Croc and Platypus for an Australian outback hullabaloo!

  • Short-listed for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards, 5 to 8 years category, 2015
ISBN:
9781760651053
9781760651053
Category:
Picture storybooks
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-01-2019
Publisher:
Walker Books Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
32
Dimensions (mm):
262x253mm
Weight:
0.2kg

"... a fun, nonsense-filled buddy trip across the Australian outback ..." Books+Publishing

"... a great bedtime book for young children." The Sunday Telegraph

Jackie Hosking

Jackie Hosking is a Nigerian-born Cornish Australian. She moved to Victoria, Australia when she was ten.

Jackie has always loved reading, but she didn’t start writing until her youngest child turned two. Her first poem for children was published by The School Magazine in 2005.

In 2012, Jackie won a Maurice Saxby Mentorship, which helped her to polish the manuscript that was to become The Croc and the Platypus.

Marjorie Crosby-Fairall

Marjorie Crosby-Fairall was born in America and currently lives in Sydney, Australia. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from Northern Illinois University. In 1997 she won the CBCA Eve Pownall Award for Information Books and has since been short-listed for other awards.

She currently works as a freelance illustrator for educational publishers, general editorial book publishers and magazines. Marjorie loves to experiment with new techniques for her illustrations, but always seems to return to her beloved and well-used colour pencils. The Croc and the Platypus was her first Walker Books Australia title.

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