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Hatch and Match

A look-and-find book
By Ruth Paul
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A search-and-match adventure with patterns, colours, and number fun from the award-winning author and illustrator, Ruth Paul - now available as a Board Book! Cluck, cluck, cluck. Scritch and scratch. Chickens look for eggs that match. Help the chickens look for their eggs! There’s lots to... Read More
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A search-and-match adventure with patterns, colours, and number fun from the award-winning author and illustrator, Ruth Paul - now available as a Board Book!

Cluck, cluck, cluck. Scritch and scratch.
Chickens look for eggs that match.

Help the chickens look for their eggs! There’s lots to find.

A playful search-and-match adventure with patterns, colours, and number fun from award-winning author and illustrator, Ruth Paul.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781761601149

Publisher: Walker Books Australia

Format: Board book

Date Published: 01 March 2026

Country: Australia

Imprint: Walker Books Australia

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Ruth Paul

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 172.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 32

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About the Author

Ruth Paul is an award-winning writer and illustrator of children’s picture books, and a New Zealand Arts Laureate (2019). Her books have been published in New Zealand, Australia, USA, Canada, the UK, China and Korea, with translations into five languages. She has twice won the Picture Book Award at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Ruth is an experienced presenter at both schools and literary events, and takes up the University of Otago College of Education Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in Residence fellowship in 2023. She is also a champion of her local community Makara, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, where she lives and looks after a large native forest project.

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