When Granny Came To Stay
By (Author) Alice Pung
Illustrated by Soweol Han
Pan Macmillan Australia
Pan Australia
29th March 2022
Australia
Fiction
Short-listed for NSW Premier's Literary Awards the Multicultural NSW Award 2023 (Australia)
Paperback
96
Width 131mm, Height 198mm, Spine 7mm
83g
OUR STORIES is a funny, relatable and engaging new early-chapter book series that celebrates Australia's multicultural society with authors and illustrators from a diverse range of backgrounds. Everything changes when Granny comes to stay. She doesn't drive, she cooks strange foods and she thinks Destroyer Discs are just toys! But when Granny finally leaves, will things go back to the way they were A new series of memorable, funny and diverse stories on First Nations lands. 'Stories to help kids accept each other and themselves.' - Randa Abdel-Fattah, series editor SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS MULTICULTURAL NSW AWARD
Alice Pung is an award-winning writer based in Melbourne. She is the bestselling author of the memoirs Unpolished Gem and Her Father's Daughter, and the essay collection Close to Home, as well as the editor of the anthologies Growing Up Asian in Australia and My First Lesson. Her first novel, Laurinda, won the Ethel Turner Prize at the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. One Hundred Days is her most recent novel.