A Whole Lot of Lemonade Jones

Description

There are a lot of rules that do NOT interest Lemonade Jones: 1) No running in the classroom, not even in an emergency. 2) Dangerous animals should be in cages. 3) No biting. (Not even your worst enemy.) It's hard to stick to the rules when you're making life loud and exciting! And Lemonade Jones likes it when loud and exciting things happen. Three delightful stories about Lemonade Jones - a feisty girl with a lot of fizz. 'Lemonade Jones is lovable in her sheer joy for life...' Reading Time

Davina Bell is a writer for children of many ages. Her best-loved picture books include All the Ways To Be Smart, Under the Love Umbrella and All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors. She writes junior fiction, middle-grade novels, and her debut young adult title, The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love, won Book of the Year for Older Readers at the Children's Book Council of Australia Awards and the Ethel Turner Prize at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Originally from Perth, Davina now lives in Melbourne. She is a children's book publisher and often speaks at schools and festivals around the country, sharing her love of books and ideas. Karen Blair is an award-winning illustrator and author of numerous picture books. She has collaborated with some of Australia's leading children's authors, including recently with Kirsty Murray on the CBCA Honour Book When Billy was a Dog. Karen is also a primary art teacher and her characters are often inspired by her students and her own two children. She loves to help tell stories that explore the joy of discovery and play in the outdoors and the special relationships in children's lives.

'I love reading this book. It's about a kid called Lemonade Jones in Grade 1, just like me. There are three stories. In each one she is doing something crazy, like eating too much sugar, putting sparkle glitter all over a parrot to make it look like a bat, or sometimes even being a bit mean (she bit her friend Marcus Crackle). At the end there is a recipe for Unicorn Poo -- so we are making Unicorn Poo right now. So fun!' Angus Duncanson, 7, The Geelong Advertiser 'Lemonade's energy and spirit are hard to suppress and these are the very qualities that will endear her to school children everywhere. Fun, feisty and full of bubbly joy, this is a series as refreshing as a pre-summer glass of homemade lemonade.' Boomerang Books Blog 'fizzes and pops with a wonderfully infectious enthusiasm and zest for life and is guaranteed to whip up a storm whatever the occasion ... Featuring brilliant character names and accurately capturing the non-stop trials and tribulations of life as a young child, each story is wonderfully enjoyable. With easy to read text, that is perfectly sized and spaced, and plenty of energetic illustrations, Lemonade Jones is sure to be a hit with many young children in their early years of primary school.' A Word About Books