Three Sardines on a Bench

Description

Age range 8+ Three Sardines on a Bench is a humorous and fantastic children's picture book. The story centres around three eccentric sardines sharing their views on the world; pontificating on strange matters and purporting to know things that the sardines obviously know nothing about. The sardines begin to even baffle themselves with some of life's unanswered questions. This small, quirky and precocious book reminds us of the importance of broadening our horizons, seizing life's every moment and not wasting time. Petite in size, replicating the size of a tin of sardines this is an extraordinary imaginative and beautiful book.

Michael Escoffier was born in France in 1970. Raised by a family of triceratops, he discovered his passion for writing and telling stories at a young age. He lives in Lyon, France, with his wife and two children. Michael is the author of several successful children's picture books. Kris Di Giacomo is a popular children's book illustrator who has lived in France and has illustrated several children's picture books most of her life. After living in the United States for a while, she move to France, where teaching English to young children and discovering French picture books were the triggers that led her into illustration. Michael is an experienced and successful author who shares his time between Melbourne and country Victoria. Over the past 30 years, Michael has written extensively for children on subjects ranging from Languages Other Than English to AFL football. While his overarching motivation has been educational, story telling has always been central to whatever he writes.