Great White Shark

Hardback

Main Details

Title Great White Shark
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Claire Saxby
Illustrated by Cindy Lane
SeriesNature Storybooks
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:32
Dimensions(mm): Height 278,Width 253
ISBN/Barcode 9781760651848
Audience
Children / Juvenile

Publishing Details

Publisher Walker Books Australia
Imprint Walker Books Australia
Publication Date 18 August 2021
Publication Country Australia

Description

A stunning addition to the Nature Storybooks series, Great White Shark tells the real story about one of the planet's most fascinating and misunderstood creatures. The great white shark swims on. Her tail sways side-to-side; her fins keep her balanced. She travels the fast lane where she can, cruising invisible seaways In Great White Shark we follow a female shark on her way to warmer waters to give her pups the best chance of survival. Set in a stunning underwater world, Claire Saxby's signature poetic prose and Cindy Lane's sublime illustrations showcase the grace, majesty and power of one of the ocean's top predators.

Author Biography

Claire Saxby lives in Melbourne, Australia and loves her city. She is the bestselling and award-winning author of many books. There Was an Old Sailor (illustrated by Cassandra Allen) won the Society of Children's Book Writes and Illustrators Crystal Kite Award. Big Red Kangaroo and Emu (both illustrated by Graham Byrne) and Koala (illustrated by Julie Vivas) have won numerous awards including the Whitley Award, the Environment Award for Children's Literature, and Children's Book council of Australia (CBCA) Crichton Award. Koala was a CBCA Honour Book. Dingo (illustrated by Tannya Harricks was joint winner of the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature at the NSW Premier's Literary Award (2019); won the Royal Zoological Society of NSW's Whitley Award (2018); was shortlisted in 2019 for the CBCA New Illustrator Award, and Best Picture Book in the Educational Publishing awards. Claire and Tannya also collaborated on Kookaburra in 2020 and her book Tasmanian Devil (illustrated by Max Hamilton) will publish in 2022. Cindy Lane is an award-winning artist and illustrator who loves the ocean. She was born and grew up by the sea in Sydney, lived by the Great Barrier Reef in FNQ, and now has her studio by the Indian Ocean in Perth. Cindy loves to make her own paints with materials she finds in nature, and collects waters from all over the world to use in her paintings. Seawaters from across Australia were used in Great White Shark, her first picture book.

Reviews

Highly recommended . . . Kids will love it * ReadPlus * Amazingly good illustrations... a spectacular book and is suitable for all ages over four. * Alphabet Soup *