The Christmas Wish

Allison Rushby

10/2023 · Univ. of Queensland Press

Táto e‑kniha

A delightful, festive story in this funny, illustrated Australian series for newly independent readers. It's Christmastime, but Flick and Birdie are missing their Granny Aggie. To cheer them up, Mum and Dad invite the neighbours over to decorate gingerbread houses. All is going well until Mrs Mortlake brings up Christmas wishes, giving baby Birdie all the wrong ideas. How can Flick spread the joy of Christmas when a gingerbread person is biting the guests?

O autorovi

When Karen Blair was young, she wished she could see the fairies in the garden and would sometimes leave baked beans out for them. She also wished that she could draw all day and now the wish has come true! Karen loves to illustrate characters that are young, old and in between. She lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, with her husband, two children and a small dog called Dobby, who thinks he's a cat. Allison Rushby is a children's, YA and fiction author with more than 20 books to her name. Her middle-grade books The Turnkey and The Mulberry Tree (Walker / Candlewick) are spooky tales aimed at intermediate readers. Allison published three new middle-grade books with Walker Books in 2022, and has previously been published by Allen and Unwin Australia, Harper Collins, St Martins and others. Allison is an admin of the popular parent Facebook group 'Your Kid's Next Read' with Megan Daley and Allison Tait.