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The ACB With Honora Lee

The ACB With Honora Lee

by Kate De Goldi
Hardback
Publication Date: 05/10/2012

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Moving, charming novel from much-loved, international-award-winning children's author Kate de Goldi, author of the 10pm question. Beautifully packaged and illustrated throughout with drawings by Greg O'Brien. Perry s mother and father are busy people they re impatient, they re tired, they get cross easily. And they think that only children, like Perry, should be kept busy. On Saturday mornings Perry and her father visit her gran, Honora Lee, at the Santa Lucia rest home, but Gran never remembers them. Who is that man? Honora Lee asks when Perry s father leaves the room. After movement class is abruptly cancelled, Perry is allowed to go to Santa Lucia on Thursday afternoons. She discovers her Gran has an unconventional interest in the alphabet, so Perry decides to make an alphabet book with the help of Honora and the others. Soon everyone is interested in Perry s book project. Kate De Goldi s The ACB with Honora Lee unfolds with characteristic warmth, quirky, surprising humour and a rich cast of residents . The story is a meditation on kindness and patience and acceptance; that of the very young and the very old. It's a story that will resonate with echoes
ISBN:
9781869799892
9781869799892
Category:
Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
05-10-2012
Publisher:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
Country of origin:
New Zealand
Pages:
120
Dimensions (mm):
205x159x20mm
Weight:
0.44kg
Kate De Goldi

Kate De Goldi is one of New Zealand’s most loved authors, whose short fiction, novels and picture books engage children, teenagers and adults alike. T

he author of the phenomenal The 10 PM Question, which has been published extensively overseas, she is a two-time winner of the New Zealand Post Children’s Book of the Year Award.

The 10 PM Question won Book of the Year and Best Young Adult Fiction in the 2009 New Zealand Post Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Awards, was a runner-up in the 2009 Montana NZ Book Awards, and won the Readers’ Choice Award.

It was a finalist in the LIANZA Children’s Book Awards for the Esther Glen Award, was shortlisted for the Nielsen BookData NZ Booksellers’ Choice Award, and was selected for the 2009 edition of the prestigious international catalogue The White Ravens.

She has a regular spot reviewing children’s books on Saturday Mornings with Kim Hill on National Radio.

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