Words That Taste Like Home

Sandhya Parappukkaran, Michelle Pereira

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BRIGHT LIGHT
03 September 2024

Children's & Educational; Picture storybooks; Family & home stories (Children's&YA); Personal & social issues: self-awareness & self-esteem (Children's&YA)

Words That Taste Like Home is a heartwarming picture book about how language can connect us to our culture and hold on to the people we love.

Rohan loves spending time with his grandmother, making mango pickle and sharing stories. But when he moves to a different country and learns a new language, words from his first language start slipping away until one day there are none left.

How will Rohan find the words to tell his grandmother a story again?

A much-anticipated follow-up to 2022’s CBCA award-winning The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name and 2024’s NSW Premier’s Literary award-winning Stay for Dinner, this story encourages young bilingual readers to take pride in their first language and retain strong ties to their family and culture.

By: Sandhya Parappukkaran
Illustrated by: Michelle Pereira
Imprint: BRIGHT LIGHT
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 275mm, Width: 225mm,
ISBN: 9781761213281
ISBN 10: 1761213288
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 03 September 2024
Recommended Age: From 3 to 9 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Sandhya Parappukkaran left her job as a food technologist so she could put her feet up and read. Then she rediscovered her passion for children’s books. Her stories are inspired by her multicultural experience and include scrumptious food from her Kerala Indian heritage. Sandhya resides in Brisbane, Australia, with her family. Michelle Pereira is an illustrator who spent her childhood in Nairobi, Kenya, and now lives in Melbourne, Australia. She graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Communication Design and became a professional illustrator after a somewhat extended, but enjoyable, stint of bar work. She has worked with a range of clients, including Penguin UK, Netflix, the New York Times and Marie Claire. Her work has won and been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the 2022 CBCA Award for New Illustrator and the 2024 Ena Noël Award.