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See moreBursting with colour and movement, Gymnastica Fantastica! is an exuberant picture book about a child discovering and attempting new physical skills and putting on wonderfully imperfect shows for who whoever will watch them. From award-winning writer and illustrator Briony Stewart.
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WINNER OF THE 2024 CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD
Quick! Come and see! Something fabulous, it's . . . me!
Gymnastica Fantastica! is a joyful and exuberant picture book about a child discovering and attempting new physical skills and putting on wonderfully imperfect shows for whoever will watch them.
Join Gymnastica, a small person with big energy, as they bend and balance, bounce and roll, attempt a cartwheel and a spectacular trapeze flip-out finale. Written in playful rhyming text and with brightly energetic and appealing illustrations, this is a book that kids and parents alike will find irresistible to read aloud and delight in its energy and humour.
'A joy to read. It will remind adults of when they were young and excitable, and shows kids that it can be fun to try new skills, and that it is okay if it doesn't work out the first time round' READINGS
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ISBN: 9780734421852
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 November 2023
Country: Australia
Imprint: Lothian Books
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 9.0mm
Width: 236.0mm
Height: 286.0mm
Weight: 430g
Pages: 32
About the Author
Briony Stewart is an award-winning author and illustrator of children's books. In 2022 she won the Prime Minister's Literary Award in the category of Children's Fiction for her work with Sheryl Clarke on the verse novel Mina and the Whole Wide World. She is the author and illustrator of the award-winning Kumiko and the Dragon series and We Love You Magoo, which was a CBCA Early Childhood Honour Book for 2020. Briony lectures on children's literature at university and conducts talks and workshops with children across Australia. She loves live drawing challenges, daydreaming and discussing dragons, bunnies, and how to tame lions.
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