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The Great Orlando

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Great Orlando
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Benjamin Brown
Illustrated by Helen Taylor
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:32
Dimensions(mm): Height 250,Width 240
ISBN/Barcode 9781775430421
ClassificationsDewey:823.2
Audience
Children / Juvenile
Illustrations colour illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher Scholastic New Zealand Limited
Imprint Scholastic New Zealand
Publication Date 1 April 2012
Publication Country New Zealand

Description

Poor Sunday Jones lives with his monster of a father and pines for his dearly departed mother. Then, one day, a talent show is announced at school and Sunday practises hard to become The Great Orlando - a magician who can make things disappear ...even himself.

Author Biography

Ben Brown writes children's books, non-fiction and short stories for children and adults. Since 1992, he has been a publisher and writer, collaborating with illustrator Helen Taylor, on numerous publications. Ben Brown was awarded the Maori Writer's Residency at the Michael King Writers' Centre for 2011. He lives in Christchurch. Helen Taylor is an award-winning children's book illustrator and exhibiting artist with works in private collections around New Zealand and overseas. She has been twice shortlisted for the LIANZA Children's Book Awards and in 2006, won Best Picture Book in the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, with her book A Booming in the Night. Helen lives in a creaky old yellow cottage in th portside town of Lyttelton.