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See moreA cautionary tale about a little girl who drives her parents up the wall when she starts answering 'No! Never!' to all their requests - and what happens when the tables are turned on her.
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Description
There was a child,
The sweetest ever,
Until she learned these words:
'NO! NEVER!'
Georgie is a sweet little girl who always makes her parents happy... until she discovers one powerful phrase: No! Never!
It suddenly becomes her answer to every request, from tidying up her toys to going to bed. Her parents are at their wits' end, but what happens when they decide to try saying No! Never! themselves?
A lovely, lively look at the Terrible Twos (or Threes, or Fours, or Fives...) from mother-daughter team Libby Hathorn and Lisa Hathorn-Jarman, with debut illustrator Mel Pearce. Perfect for any parent dealing with tantrums, defiant behaviour, or communication issues.
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No! Never! by Libby Hathorn and Lisa Hathorn-Jarman captures the universal experiences of dealing with the defiant language of young children. Praised for its humorous and rhyming narrative, the book is beautifully illustrated and well-suited for bedtime stories. It offers a delightful read for different generations and serves as a useful tool in classrooms to explore positive behaviour.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9780734418906
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 28 April 2020
Country: Australia
Imprint: Lothian Books
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Mel Pearce
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 256.0mm
Height: 256.0mm
Weight: 420g
Pages: 32
About the Author
Libby Hathorn (Author)
Libby Hathorn is an award-winning author and poet of more than eighty books for children, young adults, and adult readers. Her recent picture book No! Never!, written with her daughter Lisa Hathorn-Jarman, won the CBCA Children's Picture Book of the Year Award, Younger Readers, 2021. Translated into several languages and adapted for both stage and screen, her work has won honours in Australia, the United States, Great Britain and Holland. She is the recipient of the ABIA Pixie O'Harris Award, 2022, and the Lady Cutler Award, 2020, for distinguished services to Australian children's literature. In 2014 she won The Alice Award, a national award given to 'a woman who has made a distinguished and long term contribution to Australian literature'. In 2017 she won the Asher Award, a peace prize, for A Soldier, a Dog and a Boy. Libby is a keen educator who has lectured part-time at Sydney University and is devoted to being an ambassador for poetry anywhere and everywhere. She has been a National Ambassador for Reading and often acts as a judge for various literary prizes, including the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. www.libbyhathorn.comMel Pearce (Illustrator) Mel Pearce is an artist and illustrator who likes scribbling in detail. She takes inspiration from games, Japanese animation, machinery, childhood nostalgia, elephants, fish and teeth, to name a few things.Her work has appeared in literary magazines dotdotdash and Voiceworks and was featured on the West Australian Young Readers Book Award poster for 2017.Mel was born in Subiaco, grew up in Darwin and lives in Perth's northern suburbs.Also by Libby Hathorn
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