Dry to Dry

The Seasons of Kakadu

Pamela Freeman, Liz Anelli

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Walker Books
01 May 2023

Nature, the natural world (Children's&YA); Kids Australian

Series: Nature Storybooks

This Nature Storybook follow-up to the award-winning Desert Lake is a stunningly illustrated and extraordinary story of the yearly weather cycle and attendant changing wildlife of Kakadu National Park, from the Dry to the Wet to the Dry again. Now in paperback.

In the tropical wetlands and escarpments of Kakadu National Park, the seasons move from dry to wet to dry again. Those seasons have shaped the astonishing variety of plants, animals, birds, insects ... migratory birds by the thousands, grasshoppers and owls, lizards and turtles, fruit bats and spear grass. And, gliding past them all in the rivers and waterholes, the long, sinuous shapes of crocodiles ...

By: Pamela Freeman
Illustrated by: Liz Anelli
Imprint: Walker Books
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 252mm, Width: 232mm,
Weight: 151g
ISBN: 9781760656232
ISBN 10: 1760656232
Series: Nature Storybooks
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 01 May 2023
Recommended Age: From 5 to 10 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Pamela Freeman is an award-winning author. She has published several books with Walker, including Victor's Challenge (2009 Aurealis Award winner) and most recently Desert Lake: Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, which was a CBCA Notable Book and shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Liz Anelli once had a job dusting dinosaurs at London's Natural History Museum. Nowadays she draws every day and illustrates picture books; combining collage, printmaking and paint into digitally composed artworks. These have collected numerous shortlistings and awards. In between books she creates quirky illustrated maps. Having spent ten glorious years in Australia she and her husband are now living in Cambridge, England. Liz loves sharing her passion for making pictures at festivals, libraries and schools around the world.

Reviews for Dry to Dry: The Seasons of Kakadu

The mixed media illustrations are stylish and impressionistic, colours muted and understated, and children will enjoy looking for the many animals, birds and plant life shown * Readplus * Truly truly beautiful and so informative. A really special example of a wonderful non-fiction picture book that will enchant all ages * picturebookbc - Instagram * a stunning mixed media book celebrating the natural wonder and cycles of the Kakadu ... highly recommended * Reading Time * this exquisite book is one kids will want to pull open to explore time and again. * Kids' Book Review * The mixed media illustrations are stylish and impressionistic, colours muted and understated, and children will enjoy looking for the many animals, birds and plant life shown * Readplus * Truly truly beautiful and so informative. A really special example of a wonderful non-fiction picture book that will enchant all ages * picturebookbc - Instagram * a stunning mixed media book celebrating the natural wonder and cycles of the Kakadu ... highly recommended * Reading Time * this exquisite book is one kids will want to pull open to explore time and again. * Kids' Book Review *

Winner of CBCA Book of the Year Awards, Eve Pownall Award 2021 (Australia)
Winner of CBCA Book of the Year Awards, Eve Pownall Award for Information Books 2021 (Australia)