The Midnight Zoo
$19.03
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2014
Summary
Her muzzle wrinkled, and Andrej saw a glimpse of teeth and pale tongue. ‘They smell the same,’ the lioness murmured. ‘My cubs smelt as she does. Like pollen.’ She breathed deeply again, and Andrej saw the missing cubs returning to her on the wings of the baby’s perfume. ‘All young ones must come from the same place,’ she said: then sat down on her haunches, seemingly satisfied.
Under cover of darkness, two brothers cross a war-ravaged countryside carrying a secret bundle. One night th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143504887 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0143504886 |
| Author: | Sonya Hartnett |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Puffin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 172g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 132mm x 197mm |
| Audience Age: | 9-12 |
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Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Hartnett’s work has won numerous Australian and international literary prizes and has been published around the world. Uniquely, she is acclaimed for her stories for adults, young adults, and children.
Her accolades include:
- Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (for Of A Boy)
- The Age Book of the Year (for Of A Boy)
- Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize (for Thursday’s Child)
- Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for both Older and Younger Readers (for Forest, The Silver Donkey, The Ghost’s Child, The Midnight Zoo, and The Children of the King)
- Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (for Surrender)
- Three shortlistings for the Miles Franklin Award (for Of a Boy, Butterfly, and Golden Boys)
- CILIP Carnegie Medal (for The Midnight Zoo)
Hartnett is also the first Australian recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2008).
She published her fourth picture book, Blue Flower, illustrated by Gabriel Evans, in 2021, which was shortlisted for the CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award.
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