The Search of Fred Beaney

(Hardback)

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Fred Beaney wants a round watch with black hands and a proper tick. He searches high and low discovering rectangular watches and square watches, blue hands, red hands and gold hands, watches that bark and hiccup and sing the national anthem in a number of languages, watches shaped like animals and people every kind of watch imaginable, but not a round watch with black hands that ticks. He searches from Anglesea to Abbotsford, from Argentina to the Cocos Islands. He even flies to Florida. Finally when he thinks he can search no longer and is making his way home to Berwick, he stops at a second-hand shop to replace his worn-out shoes. Amazingly, the shop cannot help him with shoes but they do have the watch he has been searching for. A watch just like the one his father used to have as Fred sat on his knee long ago

Author Bio

Kate Ryan lives in North Melbourne with her partner and three young children. She has worked at various publishing houses as an editor, and now works as a freelance writer and editor. Kate has written three stories about Belvedere, Belvedere in the City, Belvedere Dreaming and Belvedere is Beached, and is currently working on a novel for adults. Sally Rippin was born in Darwin but spent most of her childhood in South-East Asia. As an adult she spent three years in China studying traditional Chinese painting before returning to Australia. Her first two picture books were Speak Chinese, Fang Fang! and Fang Fang's Chinese New Year which won the CBC Crichton Award in 1997. Her previous Lothian books are When It Is Time, What Makes Me Me and Becoming Buddha.