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Chip

Celebrating 10 Years of Chip!
Series: Chip
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Chip is a seagull with a passion for fish and chips. When he's suddenly banned from enjoying his favourite meal, he devises a clever plan to bring it back. But has his solution gone a little too far?

This charming story celebrates 10 years of Chip with an extra-special fold-out scene and follows his adventures full of humour and heart.
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Chip, like most other gulls, would do anything for fish and chips. When he's banned from his favourite food, he is desperate to get it back on the menu.

So Chip hatches a brilliant idea to solve his problem ... but has he gone too far this time?

  • Celebrating 10 Years of Chip!
  • Featuring an extra-special fold out scene
  • Winner of 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
  • Chip's second adventure, Chip the Lifeguard, was a 2019 CBCA Notable Book of the Year for Early Childhood

Series: Chip

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  • Chip The Lifeguard
    Chip is back! His mission: to become a lifeguard. But his dreams soon go soggy when heโ€™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...
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  • Chip
    Chip, like most other gulls, would do anything for fish and chips. When he's banned from his favourite food, he is desperate to get it back on the menu. So Chip hatches a brilliant idea to solve his problem ... but has he gone too far this time? Celebrating 10 Years of Chip! Featuring an extra-special fold out scene Winner...
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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760409623

Publisher: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 December 2018

Country: Australia

Imprint: Little Hare

Edition: First Edition, Paperback

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 270.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 210g

Pages: 32

About the Author

Kylie Howarth is an award-winning, internationally published childrenโ€™s book author-illustrator from Western Australia.
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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!
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Kylie not only draws inspiration from her underwater travels but also her own two fish-kids who are ocean explorers too. The textures in Kylieโ€™s book illustrations are created during their backyard art sessions.
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Kylie recently won the Western Australian Premierโ€™s Book Award Writerโ€™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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