Eltham Bookshop, Eltham
Zana Fraillon in conversation on The Way of Dog
ELTHAMbookshop invites you to celebrate two award-winning middle grade writers:
Zana Fraillon (The Way of Dog) and Pip Harry (August & Moon).
Saturday August 6th from 3.00pm until 4.30pm
At Streamline Publishing and Gallery, 22, Commercial Place, Eltham 3095
Entry: $25.00 includes one copy of the featured books and refreshments
Be strong. Be fierce. Life is more than a concrete floor.
Scruffity is born into the harsh, grey world of a puppy farm. Taken from his mamma and locked in a concrete cage, what he yearns for most is Family. To belong is The Way of Dog. But no one wants him. Just as his chances of adoption grow dangerously thin, Scruffity is set free by a boy as unwanted and lonely as he is. Outside, Scruffity learns all about The Way of Dog – it is to run, to dig, to howl and, biggest of all, to love. But when tragedy strikes, Scruffity is suddenly all alone.
How does a dog find his way home when he never had one to begin with?
Zana Fraillon is an internationally acclaimed, multi-award-winning author of books for children and young adults including Lost Soul Atlas and Curiosities. Her work has been published in over 15 countries and is in development for both stage and screen. She has degrees in history and teaching and is currently undertaking a PhD in Creative Writing at LaTrobe University. Zana’s passion for empowering young people to find their voice is a feature of both her books and her work with writers of all ages. This is Zana’s first verse novel and it is brilliant.
Join Jones Kirby & August Genting, 11 year olds who are certainly not two peas in a pod. They find their way to an extraordinary friendship that takes them on breath taking adventures that can only come your way when you have a real friend by your side.
Pip Harry is an Australian author, copywriter and journalist. Her young adult novels includeI'll Tell You Mine, Head of the River and Because of You. Her middle grade novel The Little Wavewon the 2020 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers. Pip's second middle grade novel, Are You There,Buddha?, is a 2022 Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book and was shortlisted for the 2022 NSW Premier's Literary Awards in the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature.
This conversation will sparkle and inspire curious young and old readers looking for cutting edge styles of writing and stories that linger.