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Stuck!
One warm and windy day, Charlie and his friends decide to fly a kite. But ...The hardcover edition of Stuck! was a Notable Book in the Children's Book Council of Australia Awards 2011 and was shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards 2011
28 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2009
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Charlotte Calder
9 books7 followersCharlotte Calder lives near Orange in the Central West of NSW with her husband. They have three adult children. The rest of the family consists of two dogs (including Arlo, the inspiration for The 12th Dog, a cat and two beautiful ex-race horses, saved from the knackery.
Her latest picture book The 12th Dog illustrated by Tom Jellett, was published by Hachette in January 2017. It's 'a perfect celebration of the joy of backyard cricket and the hilarity of owning a dog.'
Charlotte was born in Adelaide and grew up in the Adelaide Hills and Darwin, the setting of her first novel Settling Storms, published in 2000. She later lived in Sydney for many years, the background for Cupid Painted Blind (2002) and Paper Alice (2008). Surviving Amber (2005)'s location contains hints of Kangaroo Island, where she spent just about every summer holiday for the first thirty five years of her life. KI is also the (real) background for her junior adventure novel, The Ghost at the Point, set in 1931. Her picture book Stuck!, illustrated by Mark Jackson, was re-released in Jan 2012 was a Notable Book in the Children's Book Council of Australia Awards 2011, and was shortlisted in the Speech Pathology of the Year Awards 2011.
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Her latest picture book The 12th Dog illustrated by Tom Jellett, was published by Hachette in January 2017. It's 'a perfect celebration of the joy of backyard cricket and the hilarity of owning a dog.'
Charlotte was born in Adelaide and grew up in the Adelaide Hills and Darwin, the setting of her first novel Settling Storms, published in 2000. She later lived in Sydney for many years, the background for Cupid Painted Blind (2002) and Paper Alice (2008). Surviving Amber (2005)'s location contains hints of Kangaroo Island, where she spent just about every summer holiday for the first thirty five years of her life. KI is also the (real) background for her junior adventure novel, The Ghost at the Point, set in 1931. Her picture book Stuck!, illustrated by Mark Jackson, was re-released in Jan 2012 was a Notable Book in the Children's Book Council of Australia Awards 2011, and was shortlisted in the Speech Pathology of the Year Awards 2011.
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September 30, 2015
Great little story, cool pictures, but in places it felt as though it was missing some words.
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