Title The art of taxidermy / Sharon Kernot

Published Melbourne, Victoria : Text, 2018 Melbourne : The Text Publishing Company, [2018] ©2018

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS CRC	JUNIOR FICTION Ker/Aot		AVAILABLE
MELB CRC	JUNIOR FICTION Ker/Aot		AVAILABLE

Description 231 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm Summary Lottie collects dead creatures and lovingly cares for them, hoping to preserve them, to save them from disintegration. Her father understands Lottie has a scientific mind, he thinks. Her aunt wants it to stop, and she goes to cruel lengths to make sure it does. And her mother? Lottie's mother died long ago. And Lottie is searching for a way to be close to her. The Art of Taxidermy is a heartbreaking verse novel exploring love and death, grief and beauty, and the ways we try to make sense of it all Analysis Australian Notes For 12-15 years old Shortlisted for the 2017 Text Prize Shortlisted by the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) 2019 Children's Book of the Year Award for Older Readers Subject Youth -- Fiction. Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction. Australian fiction. Mothers -- Death -- Juvenile fiction. Motherless families -- Juvenile fiction. Families -- Juvenile fiction. Grief -- Juvenile fiction. Taxidermy -- Juvenile fiction. Loss (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction. Young adult fiction. Genre/Form Domestic fiction. Novels in verse. Young adult fiction Australian fiction Teen fiction Fiction. Juvenile works. Novels in verse. Young adult works. LC no. be2018022063 ISBN 9781925603743 (paperback) 1925603741 9781925626728 (ebook) 1925626725

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