My Mum is Queen of the Road

Name: My Mum is Queen of the Road
Brand: Archetype/Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781775506171
Price: 22.0 NZD
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By Jennifer Beck

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Ari and Isabella play with trucks and diggers, making roads in a sandpit. Ari tells Isabella that his mother is a roadworker who works the Stop/Go sign and is called Queen of the Road. Isabella tries to work out why she is a queen – does... Read More

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Ari and Isabella play with trucks and diggers, making roads in a sandpit. Ari tells Isabella that his mother is a roadworker who works the Stop/Go sign and is called Queen of the Road.

Isabella tries to work out why she is a queen – does she wear diamonds? Does she sit on a throne? Does she have a corgi? Each time, Ari answers no, and Isabella is puzzled until Ari reveals that when his mum turns her sign to Go, everyone cheers and waves at her – just like a queen.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781775506171

Publisher: Huia Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 March 2022

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Huia Publishers

Illustration: Colour illustrations

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 250.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 36

Collections

Children's Books Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Jennifer Beck New Zealand and Australia Published New Zealand Children's Books New Zealand Published

About the Author

Jennifer Beck is an award-winning author of more than forty children’s books. Her books have been recognised at the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in the picture book, book of the year and children’s choice categories and have been included in the Storylines Notable Books List. She was Children’s Writer in Residence at the College of Education, University of Otago, in 2015, and she received an ONZM for services to literature in 2015.

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