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To Stir with Love
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Readings Best Books of 2024, Picture BooksShortlisted for the 2025 ABIA Awards, Children’s Picture Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2025 Indie Book Awards, Children’sFrom the acclaimed author, and bestselling illustrator, this beautiful, heartfelt collaboration celebrates the magic of grandmothers (and their secret recipes). ‘It’s my everything cake,’ Grandma says....
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Readings Best Books of 2024, Picture Books
Shortlisted for the 2025 ABIA Awards, Children’s Picture Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the 2025 Indie Book Awards, Children’s
From the acclaimed author, and bestselling illustrator, this beautiful, heartfelt collaboration celebrates the magic of grandmothers (and their secret recipes).
‘It’s my everything cake,’ Grandma says. ‘My grandmother’s grandmother gave it to her, and my grandmother gave it to me.’
Grandma makes her everything cake for every special occasion. These days she sometimes needs a little help, but that’s what grandkids are for.
From the acclaimed author, Kate Mildenhall, and bestselling illustrator, Jess Racklyeft, this beautiful, heartfelt collaboration combines food and family to celebrate the magic of grandmothers (and their secret recipes).
Complete with Grandma’s everything cake recipe … and room to write down your own family favourite.
'Kate Mildenhall’s tender story is perfectly matched by Jess Racklyeft’s pastel-toned illustrations, delivering a heartwarming story celebrating the magic of food and family.’ The Australian
'Mildenhall sensitively introduces the topic of ageing and how children may feel seeing their loved one forget things ... Racklyeft’s illustrations are full of life and colour and integrate collage, including photos of Mildenhall’s own grandmama, on whom the story is based.' Books+Publishing
Shortlisted for the 2025 ABIA Awards, Children’s Picture Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the 2025 Indie Book Awards, Children’s
From the acclaimed author, and bestselling illustrator, this beautiful, heartfelt collaboration celebrates the magic of grandmothers (and their secret recipes).
‘It’s my everything cake,’ Grandma says. ‘My grandmother’s grandmother gave it to her, and my grandmother gave it to me.’
Grandma makes her everything cake for every special occasion. These days she sometimes needs a little help, but that’s what grandkids are for.
From the acclaimed author, Kate Mildenhall, and bestselling illustrator, Jess Racklyeft, this beautiful, heartfelt collaboration combines food and family to celebrate the magic of grandmothers (and their secret recipes).
Complete with Grandma’s everything cake recipe … and room to write down your own family favourite.
'Kate Mildenhall’s tender story is perfectly matched by Jess Racklyeft’s pastel-toned illustrations, delivering a heartwarming story celebrating the magic of food and family.’ The Australian
'Mildenhall sensitively introduces the topic of ageing and how children may feel seeing their loved one forget things ... Racklyeft’s illustrations are full of life and colour and integrate collage, including photos of Mildenhall’s own grandmama, on whom the story is based.' Books+Publishing
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781761426391
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 02 October 2024
Country: Australia
Imprint: Simon & Schuster Australia
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Jess Racklyeft
- Illustrated by Jess Racklyeft
DIMENSIONS
Width: 250.0mm
Height: 280.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 32
About the Author
Kate Mildenhall is an author, writing teacher and podcaster. Her debut novel Skylarking was longlisted for Debut Fiction in the 2017 Indie Book Awards and the 2017 Voss Literary Prize. Her second novel, The Mother Fault, was longlisted for the 2021 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2021 Aurealis Science Fiction Novel of the Year. The Hummingbird Effect was shortlisted for the 2024 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year and longlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize and the 2024 Indie Book Awards for Fiction. In 2024, Kate released her first picture book, To Stir with Love, illustrated by Jess Racklyeft, shortlisted for the 2025 Indie Book Awards and the 2025 ABIA Children’s Book of the Year and Notable in the CBCA Book Awards for Early Readers. Kate co-hosted The First Time Podcast where she interviewed over 200 Australian and international writers. Jess Racklyeft is a children’s book illustrator based in Melbourne. She has illustrated 35 picture books, and won several awards including a CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award (2022). Working primarily in watercolours, she also likes to experiment with collage, digital and acrylic mediums, as well as create greeting cards, abstract paintings and work on client projects. Her study is found by a farm in inner city Melbourne and filled to the brim with picture books.
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