Anne Morgan
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English
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Winner, 2014 Wilderness Society Award for Children's Environmental Literature
In this delightful collection of organically-grown eco-tales, a prince wants to marry the girl with the smallest carbon footprint in the land; Space Cadet Lox finds out why a planet is like a bowl of porridge; a girl in a little green hoodie tries to save an endangered wolf; and Chicken Licken warns the sea is rising. Times have changed in Fairytale Land!
From the...
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Français
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Il passe des heures à regarder les nuages dans le ciel d'hiver, en espérant que Cassie soit quelque part là-haut.
La veille de son anniversaire, Cassie rentre chez elle dans un merveilleux bateau volant et jette l'ancre dans l'eucalyptus argenté de leur jardin. Elle invite Liam à monter à bord et les deux enfants partent naviguer sur la voie lactée.
Mais il y a beaucoup de leçons que Liam devra apprendre avant de rentrer chez lui.
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English
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Once upon a full moon night a shining bird flies over a mountain. The Grolken wants the bird to sing, dance and light up his den. The townsfolk want to display her in a palace of glass.
But the bird just wants to fly free.
The Moonlight Bird and the Grolken is an enchanting picture book about possession, loss and freedom.
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English
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When Liam's sister dies, his world turns grey. He spends hours watching clouds crossing the wintry skies, hoping that Cassie is out there somewhere.
On the night before Liam's birthday, Cassie sails the Sky Dreamer to their home and drops anchor in a ghost gum tree. She invites Liam to climb aboard, and together the children go sailing through the Milky Way. But there are lessons Liam must learn before the Sky Dreamer returns home.
The Sky Dreamer...
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English
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'What is impressive is the ambit of this collection, the way Morgan explores with equal authority the natural world, history, mythology, the vagaries of humankind, and grief. A finely-tuned intelligence shines through these poems, which are lexically rich and jam-packed with precise imagery. Her poems marry the down-to-earth to the numinous; they make evident the breadth of Morgan's engagement with life and with language, and her passion for fusing...
