Parachute Little Hare Books

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Toby wears a parachute.
 
All the time.
 
It is the first thing he puts on in the morning.
 
It makes him brave enough to deal with all kinds of tricky situations ...
 
such as getting out of bed or riding his bike.
 
But what happens when someone else’s trouble is greater than his own?

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ISBN:

9781742976778

Format:

Paperback

Pages:

32

Dimensions:

27cm x 22cm

RRP:

$17.99

Category:

Junior Fiction

Publisher:

Hardie Grant Children's Publishing

Published:

01 July 2015

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Danny Parker

In another life Danny Parker worked as a nurse, an actor and an undertaker before settling into work as a drama teacher. He is currently the Director of Drama and Youth Theatre at Hale School, in Perth, WA. A chance meeting with fellow WA-based illustrator and author, Matt Ottley, lead to Danny’s first picture book Tree in 2012. Their second collaboration, Parachute, was shortlisted for CBCA’s 2014

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

Matt Ottley

Matt Ottley was born in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, where he spent the first eleven and a half years of his life. His mother was a landscape artist, and as a child he and his brothers regularly travelled with her on painting excursions into the bush and around the villages of the Western Highlands. 
After almost failing high school in Sydney, he lived the itinerate life of a stockman for some years on cattle stations in