The Wheelbarrow Express
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The Wheelbarrow Express
By (Author) Sue Whiting
Illustrated by Cate James
Walker Books Australia
Walker Books Australia
5th July 2023
Australia
Classifications
Children
Fiction
Physical Properties
Hardback
32
Width 268mm, Height 268mm
399g
Description
The Wheelbarrow Express is a heartfelt and rollicking tale about the special love between a grandparent and a child.
Its Tommys last day at Pas farm and its time to say goodbye. Tommy doesnt want to go. Not yet. He loves the farm and its playful pigs and clucking chickens and galloping goats and the dam that is deep and blue and perfect for skimming stones. And he loves Pa.
But Pa has a plan: theres time for one last run on the Wheelbarrow Express. Toot! Toot! All aboard!
Author Bio
Sue Whiting is an award-winning childrens and YA author and editor who has worked in publishing for twenty+ years. Sue was senior commissioning editor and publishing manager for Walker Books Australia for many years before leaving in 2016 to concentrate on her writing. As a storyteller and schools performer, Sue has informed, inspired and entertained thousands of kids across the country. She is also a freelance childrens book editor and writing coach, and the author of numerous books, including the bestselling Missing, the acclaimed The Book of Chance and a number of CBCA Notable Books. Sues latest books are Pearly and Pig and the Great Hairy Beast, the first in a new junior fiction series, and the narrative nonfiction picture book The Echidna Near my Place, illustrated by Cate James.
Cate James is a full-time illustrator, and when shes not drawing for children's books, she likes to find different ways to be an artist. She volunteers with ArtEx at the Sydney Childrens Hospital in Randwick, and teaches art to primary-aged children. She also works as a printmaking technician at UNSW. Cate has illustrated over 30 books for publishers in the UK, US and Australia and was awarded the Penguin Random House Illustrators Showcase Award in 2019. Cate moved to Australia from Scotland, where she studied Printmaking and Illustration at Edinburgh College of Art. She is now living in the Northern Beaches of Sydney with her husband and her sausage dog Sebastian.
