Bob Graham is a Kate Greenaway-winning author-illustrator who has written and illustrated many acclaimed children's picture books including How to Heal a Broken Wing, How the Sun Got to Coco's House, Max, Jethro Byrde: Fairy Child and April Underhill: Tooth Fairy. His 2011 title, A Bus Called Heaven, is endorsed by Amnesty International UK and was the winner of the 2012 Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Award – a prize Bob has won an unprecedented six times. In 2014, Silver Buttons was awarded a prestigious Prime Minister's Literary Award in Australia. Bob lives in Melbourne.
Thought-provoking storytelling, as ever, about a family finding
inspiration in the most unlikely places.
*The Bookseller*
Full of joy, understanding and warmth, Graham’s acutely beautifully
observed celebration explores the way inspiration can, and often
does happen, in the most unlikely of places. Exquisitely crafted
illustrations complement a heartfelt and moving little story that
captures both the ordinariness and the extraordinariness of a day
in the life of a family that will be familiar to us all.
*Lancashire Evening Post*
Children's Book of the Week - This poetic, ingeniously constructed
tale shows children the familiar while stimulating empathy and
awareness of others.
*The Sunday Times*
Bob Graham provides plenty to pore over and to discuss in his
tender depictions of everyday life. It's a lovely book to share,
especially in those families where a new baby is imminent.
*Red Reading Hub*
Home in the Rain by Bob Graham is a remarkable story from another
mast of picture book art. [...] Graham has the confidence and
talent to tell his sodden adventure like it is, even down to the
state of the family car with "two stale toffees found under old
parking tickets in the door". Young and old readers will be
spellbound throughout this torrential tale.
*The Observer*
“Graham creates the atmosphere not through excessive description;
his prose is quiet, low key. Rather it is his illustrations that
draw us in. The rain streaks across the pages, the water sprays out
from under the traffic wheels. Above all there are the details, the
different perspectives, nothing is forgotten. […] Exceptional.”
*Books for Keeps*
“[…]Bob Graham can make the ordinary extraordinary. […]Memorable,
expressive characters (Graham has, for decades now, created
characters rich in diversity, well before it was a Twitter hashtag)
; a story that makes you think and have all the many feels; and
warm, detailed illustrations: this book has it all.”
*Kirkus*
“Perfect for any family awaiting their new baby.”
*Parents in Touch*
“Perfect for peaceful moments, rainy days and bedtime reading, it
demonstrates precisely how it is the little things in life that
make big impressions.”
*Fallen Star Stories*
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