Michael Leunig

A new edition of Leunig's much-loved and best-selling collection of prayers, featuring remastered illustrations and a new introduction. A person kneels before a duck to reflect upon the troubles and joys of life, and offers thanksgivings and expressions of hope. The person is praying... This collection of prayers and drawings from Michael Leunig is full of gentle humour and joyous...

A cartoonist talks to God. In 1989, cartoonist Michael Leunig began an experiment. Asked to produce a weekly cartoon for Sunday Age, Australia, he remembers wondering 'if newspapers might carry some small spiritual message of consolation as a tiny reparation for the enormous anxiety and distress they can create?' Since then, the two collections, A Common Prayer and The Prayer...

A cartoonist talks to God. In 1989, cartoonist Michael Leunig began an experiment. Asked to produce a weekly cartoon for Sunday Age, Australia, he remembers wondering if newspapers might carry some small spiritual message of consolation as a tiny reparation for the enormous anxiety and distress they can create. Since then, the two collections, A Common Prayer and The Prayer...

Ducks for Dark Times is a hilarious, uplifting shot in the arm from Michael Leunig, an antidote to the prevailing madness. A collection of cartoons about many strange and lovely things: kind words for dark days; simple poems concerning wonderful mysteries; reflections on sadness, joy, dismay, sanity, soup and beauty. Also: doubts, confessions, laments and tributes. Spirited depictions of dogs,...

Get Well is a collection of Michael Leunig's work over the past four years—a time when, quite remarkably, all has not been well with the world. 'Simple rhymes, homemade aphorisms, sentimental yearnings, many daggy jokes, funny faces and mysteries from the heart abound in this collection of cartoons—which cause me to wonder what is becoming of me and my world.'...

The Wayward Leunig is a superb companion volume to Michael Leunig's The Essential Leunig, featuring another 400 definitive cartoons spanning five decades. Michael Leunig found the process of selecting just 400 pieces for 2012's The Essential Leunig so difficult that he set aside another 400 for a subsequent volume. Just like those first 400, the cartoons in The Wayward Leunig...

This selection of poems covers the period 1972 to 2002. This beautifully elegant volume excludes the cartoon element, focusing on Leunig's brilliant texts, with all their absurdity, hilarity, poignancy, and joyfulness. Michael Leunig pokes fun at human folly and pretentiousness, deplores the idiocy of war, and revels in the redeeming power of love. Curly Verse: Selected Poems stands out as...

From the vast repertoire created by Michael Leunig since 1965 comes this inspired selection of his most universal and timeless pieces. Such is his prophetic insight that many of them are more relevant today—and funnier and more ironic—than when they were first published. This beautiful, colour-filled hardback includes some works not previously collected, along with an introduction by Leunig on...