Alice Pung

Millie Mak the Mender (Millie Mak, #2) (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Ng, Sher Rill

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The second exciting book about Millie and her superpower of making everyday objects into something beautiful and useful.

Millie Mak is now ten, and often feels shy and awkward. But by using her special gift to make handy and beautiful things, Millie befriends residents at the aged care home where her mum works. When the whole school becomes involved in making hats for the residents, a tricky situation arises between Millie's friends. Millie is a maker - but can she also mend friendships?

Millie also discovers her sewing superpower can attract the attention of important adults. And when she and her friends are invited to be on TV - on Young Hero Hour! - they must work out how to stay true to themselves.

From the creators of Millie Mak the Maker comes further exciting adventures, plus detailed but easy-to-follow instructions to make the beautiful things that feature in the book.

Praise for Millie Mak the Maker

'... a book with an enormous heart ... a true treasure in Australian middle grade'

Readings

'Sher Rill Ng's illustrations contribute to the warm, enticing, creative world Millie inhabits, and Pung again demonstrates she is comfortable writing for any age group'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: ab 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781460716106
• Artikelnr.: 70087233

Autorenporträt

Alice Pung is the current Artist in Residence at Janet Clarke Hall, the University of Melbourne, and Adjunct Professor at RMIT University's School of Media and Communication. She is the bestselling author of the memoirs Unpolished Gem and Her Father's Daughter, and the essay collection Close to Home, as well as the editor of the anthologies Growing Up Asian in Australia and My First Lesson. Her debut novel Laurinda won the Ethel Turner Prize at the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Her second novel, One Hundred Days, was shortlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Award, and has been optioned for a film. She is the author of children's books including Millie Mak the Maker and Be Careful, Xiao Xin! (ill. Sher Rill Ng), When Granny Came to Stay (ill. Sally Soweol Han) and the Meet Marly books (ill. Lucia Masciullo). Alice was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for services to literature in 2022.