Ten Tiny Things

Description

A beautiful book that teaches children to notice the world around them. Tessa and Zachary have a machine that is swift and splendiferous. Every day it carries them from here to there and back again in cool calm comfort. But one morning, the machine breaks down. Tessa and Zachary are forced to venture into the world beyond its metal walls - a place of secret somethings and hidden happenings. Getting from here to there may never be the same . . .

Meg McKinlay is a children's writer and poet who lives in Fremantle. She grew up in a car-free home and is a great lover of walking. The idea for Ten Tiny Things came from a game she devised with her daughter, which is cunningly entitled, 'Things We Would Never Have Seen If We Had Been Driving.' Kyle Hughes-Odgers is an Australian artist. He has held exhibitions and created public art extensively throughout Australia and internationally in New York, Los Angeles, Singapore and Berlin. His work is based on narrative and observing the everyday. He finds inspiration in walking daily - to the studio, through new cities and to get more coffee.