A01=Joy Cowley
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animals
Author_Gavin Bishop
Author_Joy Cowley
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Category=YXHB
desert
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friends
name calling
New Zealand
playground
social emotional learning
spelling
word play
Product details
- ISBN 9798765668238
- Dimensions: 222 x 260mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2025
- Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Three small words can cause trouble between friends.
Snake and Lizard live together in a burrow in the desert. They are such good friends that Lizard decides to display their names above the burrow entrance.
They must decide whose name should appear first. Then Lizard makes an unfortunate spelling mistake—he thinks it's very funny but Snake is not laughing. Snake finds some spelling of her own that will teach Lizard a lesson!
The friends eventually find a way to put the argument behind them in this funny picture book that holds a mirror to our human flaws and reminds us that names and nicknames must be used with care.
Joy Cowley is one of New Zealand's best-loved writers. Her awards include the Margaret Mahy Medal; the NZ Post Children's Book Award 2006; the Roberta Long Medal, Alabama, USA; and the AW Reed Award for Contribution to New Zealand Literature. She is a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Gavin Bishop ONZM, Tainui, Ngati Awa, has published more than 70 books internationally, translated into 12 languages. He has written for television and stage, as well as libretti for two children's ballets for the Royal New Zealand Ballet. He has earned many awards including the Te Waka Toi Nga Tohu a Ta Kingi Ihaka/Sir Kingi Ihaka Award in 2018, recognising his lifetime contribution to strengthening Maori art and culture through his children's books; The Arts Foundation's Mallinson Rendel Illustrators Award in 2013; and the 2000 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal for lifetime achievement and his distinguished contribution to children's literature in New Zealand.
