Millie Mak the Mender (Millie Mak, #2)

Millie Mak the Mender (Millie Mak, #2)

by Alice Pung and Sher Rill Ng
Publication Date: 04/09/2024

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The second exciting book about Millie and her superpower of making everyday objects into something beautiful and useful.


Millie Mak is now ten, and often feels shy and awkward. But by using her special gift to make handy and beautiful things, Millie befriends residents at the aged care home where her mum works. When the whole school becomes involved in making hats for the residents, a tricky situation arises between Millie's friends. Millie is a maker - but can she also mend friendships?


Millie also discovers her sewing superpower can attract the attention of important adults. And when she and her friends are invited to be on TV - on Young Hero Hour! - they must work out how to stay true to themselves.


From the creators of Millie Mak the Maker comes further exciting adventures, plus detailed but easy-to-follow instructions to make the beautiful things that feature in the book.


Praise for Millie Mak the Maker


'... a book with an enormous heart ... a true treasure in Australian middle grade'


Readings


'Sher Rill Ng's illustrations contribute to the warm, enticing, creative world Millie inhabits, and Pung again demonstrates she is comfortable writing for any age group'


Books+Publishing

ISBN:
9781460716106
9781460716106
Category:
General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Publication Date:
04-09-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Alice Pung

Alice Pung is a writer, editor, teacher and lawyer based in Melbourne.

She is the author of Unpolished Gem, Her Father’s Daughter and Laurinda and the editor of the anthology Growing Up Asian in Australia.

Alice’s work has appeared in the Monthly, Good Weekend, the Age, The Best Australian Stories and Meanjin.

Alice lives with her husband at Janet Clarke Hall at the University of Melbourne, where she is currently the Artist in Residence.

Sher Rill Ng

Sher Rill Ng is a Melbourne-based author and illustrator. She graduated from RMIT with a Bachelor of Design and works as a web and mobile UX/UI designer. She took part in the Imaginism House Workshop, an intensive art training program in Montreal, Canada, working with leading artists in the concept art/animation industry. Her works have been shown in numerous exhibitions, including the Light Grey Art Lab (Minnesota) and Gallery 1988 (Los Angeles). Sher Rill's debut picture book, Our Little Inventor, was followed by contributing Thumbelina's illustrations to the anthology Fairytales for Feisty Girls by Susannah McFarlane and illustrating Emma Allen's The Night of the Hiding Moon.

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