Quincy and Oscar
By (Author) Kerry Millard
ABC Books
ABC Books
1st October 2007
Australia
Children
Fiction
A823
Paperback
40
196g
From award-winning illustrator Kerry Millard comes an engaging storyof two inseparable friends. Oscar and his family move to a new neighbourhood, but nobody in Oscar and Quincy's new community seems to need a new boy or a new dog. One morning, Quincy decides to go to school, 'that way, all day, they could be with each other'. Little did they realise that their friendships would expand through the joy and energy of their whimsical and affectionate approach to this one day at school. And by day's end something major has shifted in that neighbourhood: Oscar and Quincy have brought people together through the power of their friendship and respect for each other.
Children's/Children's Artists/Animals
Kerry Millard was born in Ottawa, Canada and has lived in Australia for over 30 years. She accidentally fell into cartooning and has been a cartoonist since 1986, drawing for numerous publications, including the Sydney Morning Herald. She won Best Single Gag cartoon artist at the Australian Cartoonist's Association awards in 1995 and again in 1999. Kerry has illustrated over a dozen children's books, and is a regular illustrator for The School Magazine. She currently lives in Sydney's northern suburbs with whoever of her three daughters is around, a dog, a duck and two hens who wander about in her kitchen!