Cover art for The Duck and the Darklings
Published
Allen & Unwin, April 2014
ISBN
9781743312612
Format
Hardcover, 32 pages
Dimensions
28cm × 21cm

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WINNER: 2016 WA Premier's Book Awards, Children's Books

SHORT-LISTED: 2015 CBCA Picture Book of the Year

SHORT-LISTED: 2015 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature

Grandpapa's eyes shine when he remembers the beauty of the world, long-ago. Peterboy wants to find something wonderful to bring the light to Grandpapa's eyes and keep it there. What he finds is a duck, wounded and broken, and Grandpapa mends her from top to tail; quack, waddle and wing!

The Duck and the Darklings is a triumphant story, for children and adults, about the coming of hope in dark days, the warmth of friendship and the splendour of a new dawn.

Selected by the International Youth Library as a White Raven 2015 book.

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