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Interest age: from c 6 years, Children's Fiction, General fiction (Children's / Teenage), Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), School stories (Children's / Teenage)
From master storyteller Jane Godwin, a heartwarming new junior fiction series about an observant, thoughtful six-year-old girl named Isabelle, and about all the big and little things that matter when you're growing up and finding your place in the wide new world.
Six-year-old Isabelle doesn't have any brothers or sisters. But she does have her dad, her cat Steve, her friend Harry B, and her baby cousin, Bibi, who she's very good at looking after. And then along comes Isobel, a new girl at school. They have the same name, but will they be friends?
Four gentle stories in one volume, all about Isabelle and her world, its trials and triumphs, its small moments and big dramas: friends, family, school life and growing up, from Jane Godwin, one of Australia's respected writers for children, and with delightful illustrations by Robin Cowcher.
'Jane Godwin understands what it is to be a child or young person, what matters to them at different ages and stages' Living Arts Canberra
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More books by Jane Godwin
Praise for The Isabelle Stories: Volume 1: Izzy and Belle
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Refreshingly unpredictable, bold and refuses to minimise the complex lives of [its] characters - Saturday Age on AS HAPPY AS HERE
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An empathetic exploration of family, friendship and how all our actions have consequences - Readings on AS HAPPY AS HERE
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Gentle, well-written and thoroughly engaging - Adelaide Advertiser on AS HAPPY AS HERE
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Jane Godwin has a great voice: deft, light and rich - The Age
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Author Q&A with Jane Godwin
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Empowering and Inspiring: Celebrate Real-Life and Fictional Girls
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Author Q&A with Jane Godwin
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Empowering and Inspiring: Celebrate Real-Life and Fictional Girls
Jane Godwin
Jane Godwin is the highly acclaimed and internationally published author of many books for children and young people, across all styles and ages. Children's Publisher at Penguin Books Australia for many years, Jane's books include her novels A Walk in the Dark (September 2022), Falling From Grace, As Happy as Here (a CBCA Notable Book) and When Rain Turns to Snow (shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers and for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards) and picture books Tilly, illustrated by Anna Walker and The Best Hiding Place (illustrated by Sylvia Morris), both shortlisted for the CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award. Jane is dedicated to pursuing quality and enriching reading and writing experiences for young people, and spends as much time as she can working with them in schools and communities and running literature and writing programs.
janegodwin.com.au
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