For All Creatures
By (Author) Glenda Millard
Illustrated by Rebecca Cool
Walker Books Australia
Walker Books Australia
5th May 2021
Australia
Children
Fiction
A823.40
Short-listed for CBCA Book of the Year Awards, Picture Book 2012 (Australia)
Board book
26
Width 201mm, Height 187mm
372g
A celebration of the beauty and mystery of life in its many forms.
For all creatures the great and the small, the winged and the walking, the singing and the silent we are thankful.
With lyrical, rhythmic text and vibrant, enchanting art, For All Creatures is a gentle book about taking a moment to show gratitude to the world around us.
Glenda Millard is a magical wordsmith who has written a book that is perfect for reading aloud. There is a familiar repetition that takes place throughout the book, with each verse taking on a particular structure and ending with the phrase, we are thankful.
For All Creatures offers families a reminder to be thankful for everything small and large, and an appreciation for nature. It is also an ideal resource for the classroom, providing inspiration and for creative and expressive writing.
Glenda Millard was born in the Goldfields region of Central Victoria and has lived in the area all her life. It wasnt until Glenda's four children became teenagers that she began to write in her spare time. She has been writing full-time since 1999 and has published several books for children. Her first book with Walker Books Australia, Isabellas Garden, has been awarded Honour Book in the Picture Book of the Year category in the 2010 Childrens Book Council of Australia Awards, and has won a Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award, Best Book for Language Development, Lower Primary Category (5-8 years), 2010; and short-listed the Queensland Premiers Literary Awards Childrens Book Mary Ryan Award, 2010.
Born in Western Australia, artist and illustrator Rebecca Cool lives on a rural property on the Margaret River, WA with her husband. Rebecca has studied at the Claremont School of Fine Art and has had her work shown at a number of exhibitions. Rebecca is happiest when she is painting and creating her charming, colourful and playful compositions. Her work features a combination of oil pastels and fabric collage, and her strong, colourful works have a nave charm reminiscent of European folk art. Isabellas Garden (written by Glenda Millard) is her first book and has received many awards including Honour Book, Picture Book of the Year category, Childrens Book Council of Australia Awards, 2010. Rebecca was also short-listed for the Crichton Award in 2010.