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Chip The Lifeguard

Celebrating 10 Years of Chip!
Series: Chip
Brief Description
Chip is back! His mission: to become a lifeguard. But his dreams soon go soggy when he’s chased off the beach. So Chip and his friends fashion a plan to sneak him into the surf club. Will their stunt earn Chip a place between the red... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Chip The Lifeguard

Celebrating 10 Years of Chip!

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Chip is back!

His mission: to become a lifeguard. But his dreams soon go soggy when he’s chased off the beach. So Chip and his friends fashion a plan to sneak him into the surf club.

Will their stunt earn Chip a place between the red and yellow flags?

Celebrating 10 Years of Chip!

Featuring an extra-special fold-out scene.

Chip the Lifeguard was a 2019 CBCA Notable Book of the Year for Early Childhood.

Chip's first adventure, Chip, won the 2018 West Australian Young Readers Book Award, was a KOALA Honour Book (Picture Books), and was shortlisted for the 2017 CBCA Book of the Year.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781761217968

Publisher: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 January 2026

Country: Australia

Imprint: Little Hare

Edition: First Edition, Paperback

DIMENSIONS

Width: 270.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 36

About the Author

Kylie Howarth is an award-winning, internationally published children’s book author-illustrator from Western Australia.
 
She is also part fish! Kylie has swum with whale sharks, manta rays and humpback whales in Ningaloo, piranha and pink dolphins in the Amazon, braved scuba diving with lionfish in Egypt, marine iguanas and hammerhead sharks in the Galapagos Islands and encountered great white sharks in South Africa!
 
Kylie not only draws inspiration from her underwater travels but also her own two fish-kids who are ocean explorers too. The textures in Kylie’s book illustrations are created during their backyard art sessions.
 
Kylie recently won the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award Writer’s Fellowship, the WAYRBA Hoffman award and KOALA Honour award. She has been shortlisted for the SCBWI Australian Picture Book Illustrators Award, CBCA Book of the year awards, WAYRBA and the YABBA awards.
 

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