Summary
‘Have you seen my grandmother?’ asked the little boy. ‘There are only goannas here,’ replied the station master. ‘Is your grandmother a goanna?’
One day a little boy sets out to visit his grandmother. But each station he comes to is full of a different sort of animal, and his grandmother is not a gorilla, or an elephant, or a walrus - or a goanna! So the train steams on - Chuffa Chuffa, Chuffa, Chuffa - until finally, on the very last station, there she is.
A wonderfully fun, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143502081 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143502085 |
| Author: | Pamela Allen |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Puffin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 32 |
| Release Date: | 30 March 2009 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 221mm x 228mm x 2mm |
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About The Author
Pamela Allen
Pamela Allen is a phenomenon in the world of children’s books. In twenty-eight years she has produced thirty-nine picture books, many of which have won prestigious awards and commendations both in Australia and overseas. She is the first illustrator to have won the Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Award two years running, for Who Sank the Boat? (1983) and Bertie and the Bear (1984). Some of Pamela’s other awards include the NSW Premier’s Literary Award, the AIM Book Award (New Zealand) and the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Honour Diploma for Illustration. Is Your Grandmother a Goanna? won a 2008 Speech Pathology of Australia Book of the Year Award, Shhh! Little Mouse has been shortlisted for the 2008 CBC Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood, Grandpa and Thomas and the Green Umbrella was shortlisted for the 2007 CBC Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood and Grandpa and Thomas won the same category in 2004.
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