On a perfect day, the hours stretch endlessly ahead.
Scribbling with chalk, running with kites, digging for shells ... paddling, climbing, dreaming.
Hour unfolds upon hour, with reassuring comfort and sleep beckoning at the end.
CBCA shortlisted author, Danny Parker captures the simplicity, spontaneity and freedom of an idyllic childhood.
Kate Greenaway and multiple CBCA winner Freya Blackwood’s paintings of three children roaming a rolling beachside idyll capture the light—and even the smell and feel—of a perfect summer day.
Perfect is balm for the soul.
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ISBN
9781761215018
Publish date
03 December 2024
Page count
30
Dimensions
198 x 153 mm
About the author
In another life Danny Parker has worked as a nurse, an actor and an undertaker before settling into work as a drama teacher. A chance meeting with fellow WA-based illustrator and author, Matt Ottley, lead to Danny’s first picture book Tree. Their second collaboration, Parachute, was shortlisted for CBCA’s Picture Book of the Year award and was added to the prestigious White Ravens list. Perfect, with Freya Blackwood, was a CBCA Early Childhood Book of the Year Honour Book. Danny and Freya’s second book together, Molly and Mae, was a CBCA Early Childhood Book of the Year Notable Book.
Freya Blackwood is an award-winning illustrator of children's books, who draws with a distinct style that is warm, perceptive and immediately recognisable. Since publishing her first picture book in 2003, she has has won multiple awards, including the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal, and worked with writers such as Libby Gleeson, Margaret Wild, Jan Ormerod, Nick Bland and Danny Parker. Freya lives in Orange, New South Wales, with her daughter, Ivy.
