Queen Alice's Palaces

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Queen Alice's palace was gilded and grand ...Ages: 3+ Queen Alice's palace was gilded and grand ...Lovely Queen Alice has the finest palace in the land. So fine, in fact, that cunning Sir Hugh tries to trick her into building one for him too! But has he met his match in the whimsical, good-hearted Alice? A fabulously fun rhyming tale from rising star Juliette MacIver and award-winning illustrator Lucia Masciullo. Ages 3+

Juliette MacIver lives in a seaside suburb near Wellington, New Zealand, with her husband and her live-in test audience of four children. First published in 2010, Juliette now has 16 picture books released. Four of her books have won the Storylines Notable Book Award, and six have been short-listed for other New Zealand awards, including the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards. Her books are available in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK and the USA, where one of her most recent books, Yak and Gnu, received excellent reviews in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Boston Globe. She also has five titles contracted for release in China. Lucia Masciullo grew up in Livorno, Tuscany, and moved to Queensland in 2007. Since then she has become a much-loved, award-winning Australian illustrator. Her books include The Boy and the Toy, Come Down, Cat! and The Wild One (with Sonya Hartnett), The Hole (with Kerry Brown), The Nose Pixies and My Real Friend (with David Hunt), and the Olive of Groves trilogy (with Katrina Nannestad). luciamasciullo.com