Announcing something new and more than a tiny bit special. Soft cat paw drumbeats for...
On a roof, as
wet as a seal, as grey as a puddle, Cat was rumbling, a rumbly purr. What does
Cat want most? Feather boas? Pretty pink shoelaces? A boatful of fish under a
tiny tin sail – or perhaps something much more valuable?
Walker Books have a super
adorable picture book called Maya and Cat coming out in August. Affectionate and evocative, Maya and Cat follows a child’s kindly impulse
to an unexpected conclusion. Maya and Cat is by renowned author/illustrator Caroline
Magerl.
Caroline’s stunning artwork has been exhibited widely overseas and in
Australia, in 2001 she won the Children's Book Council of Australia Crichton
Award for new talent in children's book illustration for her picture
book Grandma's Shoes (written by Libby Hathorn).
Since then she has been
awarded a May Gibbs Fellowship and received an ASA children's picture book grant
to work on her book Hasel and Rose.
Caroline Magerl
was born near Frankfurt in Germany and came to Australia when she was two. She
lived on the yacht her family built until she was fourteen. Nowadays, she is a full-time artist, illustrator
and printmaker. Maya and Cat is Caroline's first book with
Walker.
View more of Caroline's exquisite collection of art and illustration at: www.carolinemagerl.com
