Dare to Bowl (Howzat Pat, #1)
By (Author) Pat Cummins
By (author) Dave Hartley
Illustrated by erena Geddes
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
2nd October 2024
Australia
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Ball games and sports: Cricket
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: First / new experiences and grow
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships
Childrens / Teenage fiction: School stories
Paperback
192
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 14mm
179g
A NEW illustrated adventure series created by Australian Cricket Captain Pat Cummins, Dave Hartley and Serena Geddes!
I'm Pat Cummins and I love playing cricket. I love it so much that I sleep with my bat!
There's BIG NEWS in my family - we're moving from the coast all the way to the mountains and I'm NOT HAPPY about it. I have LOTS of questions, like ...
-Will I FIT IN at my new school
-How will I make new FRIENDS
-What's there to DO in the MOUNTAINS!
-MOST importantly - WHERE WILL I PLAY CRICKET!!!
If you want to know the answers to these questions, too - READ THIS BOOK!
Dave Hartley is an award-winning author and school principal who has worked as an executive leader in the Queensland Department of Education's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander division. A Barunggam man, Dave is also an incredibly talented First Nations artist, and plays the didgeridoo. (He was one of the didgeridoo performers at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in 2018). He is also sports obsessed! He got his start co-writing an Aboriginal Rugby League superhero story with League player Scott Prince, and co-wrote the award winning Strangers On Country. Otherwise, he and his wife have two grown-up girls, a giant groodle, a sassy spoodle and live on the Gold Coast.