From the award-winning team that created classics such as Don’t Forget, All Through the Year, Tilly and Starting School, comes an exquisite, universal and captivating picture book that carries us through a child's life journey on the magical metaphor of song.
When you are born, you make up a song It doesn’t rhyme, and it isn’t long A song of everything you hold dear It’s your own tune, it’s loud and clear And your whole world is in it… A musical journey from the time a child's life song first begins, through all its modulations, adding new verses and extra voices through the years, until it becomes their own unique composition - and one that is ultimately a part of the beautiful, grand and glistening score of the world.
Jane Godwin is an Australian children’s book publisher, and also the highly acclaimed author of over twenty books for children, across all styles and ages. Her work is published internationally and she has received many commendations, including the Queensland Premier’s Award (Children’s Books), the Aurealis Award and the Animal Welfare Award, and shortlistings in the CBC Book of the Year Awards, the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the New South Wales State Literary Award (Patricia Wrightson Prize) the YABBA Awards, the Speech Pathology Awards, The Family Award for Children’s Books, and the Australian Book Industry Awards.
Anna Walker is an award winning author-illustrator whose books include Florette, a New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Book, and and Snap!, which was a Children's Book Council of Australia Honour book. Working from her studio in Melbourne, Australia, Anna Walker loves painting, printmaking, and creating felt creatures for a tiny house in her front garden.
Penguin Random House has won Publisher of the Year at the 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards. Congrats and thank you to the authors, agents, booksellers, suppliers, employees and readers who made it possible.