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Your Holiday Was the BEST!
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Everyone's favourite cockroach is back, and this time he's going camping! Charming, hilarious and just a tiny bit disgusting, this is a holiday tale with a twist from the all-star team behind Your Birthday Was the BEST! and Your School is the BEST!
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Everyone's favourite cockroach is back, and this time he's going camping! Charming, hilarious and just a tiny bit disgusting, this is a holiday tale with a twist from the all-star team behind Your Birthday Was the BEST! and Your School is the BEST!
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781922863683
Publisher: Affirm Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 27 February 2024
Country: Australia
Imprint: Affirm Kids
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Felicita Sala
DIMENSIONS
Width: 240.0mm
Height: 280.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 32
About the Author
Maggie is a counsellor, family-dispute mediator, writer and artist who spends her weekends covered in paint and scribbling lists that are never completed. She is a famously mad aunt, nanna and mother who talks to herself out loud and falls over a lot in the garden at her house in northern New South Wales. Maggie writes stories with heart and soul for children and adults that encourage kindness, hope and resilience.
Felicita is a self-taught illustrator. She graduated in Philosophy from the University of Western Australia. She has worked on several animation projects along with her husband, Gianluca, but her passion is making picture books. She lives in Rome with Gianluca and their daughter, Nina.
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