One Night by Penny Matthews
One Night by Penny Matthews
One Night by Penny Matthews
One Night by Penny Matthews

One Night by Penny Matthews

Illustrated by Stephen Michael King

On the first Christmas Eve, so the story goes, the animals were given a very special gift to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Since then, at midnight on Christmas Eve the animals remember. 

A beautiful retelling of an old Christmas folktale.

Condition: Excellent Condition with an inscription to the interior
Format: Hardcover
Age: 3-5

Penny Matthews is a freelance writer and editor based in Adelaide. She has written YA and junior novels, chapter books for beginning readers, and picture books for all age groups. Her picture books include Pudding and Chips (a CBCA Notable Book in 2005), Little Red Bear (shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards in 2004) and A Year On Our Farm, which was the CBCA's 2003 Book of the Year (Early Childhood) and a CBCA Honour Book in the Picture Book of the Year category. In 2010 Something About Water was joint winner of the Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's Literature. A Girl Like Me, her first young adult novel, was also a 2010 CBCA Notable Book and won the Sisters in Crime's 2011 Davitt Award for Young Adult Fiction.

Stephen Michael King won an Honour Book at the 2015 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards with his illustrations for the title Scary Night. He also won a Speech Pathology Australia 2015 Book of the Year Award in the Birth to three years category with his title Snail and Turtle are Friends.

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