Maddies First Day

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First day of school, new experiences and making friends play centre stage for this book for the pre-school age.

It is Maddies first day of school and she has everything ready her uniform, shoes, socks and hat. But there is one special thing that Maddie cant leave behind her blanky! Award winners Penny Matthews and Liz Anelli team up to bring us this wonderful picture book about the excitement of going to big school for the first time.

Author Bio

Penny Matthews has written more than thirty books for children and young adults. She writes in a variety of genres and has won many awards, including the Childrens Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award and the Davitt Award for Childrens and Young Adult Literature. She is based in South Australia.

Illustrator Liz Anelli previously lived and worked in England but now resides in Newcastle, NSW. She has a huge passion for drawing and keeps rows of sketchbooks in her studio. In 2017, her book Desert Lake: The Story of Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre (written by Pamela Freeman) was a CBCA Notable Book and was short-listed for the NSW Premiers Literary Award, NSW Premiers History Awards, the Environment Award for Childrens Literature and the Educational Publishing Awards. Her last book with Walker was Our Stories: Ten Pound Pom (written by Carole Wilkinson).