The Paddock
Creators
Lilith Norman is a well-known author from Sydney, Australia. She has worked as a bookshop assistant and librarian and joined the editorial staff of the NSW School Magazine in 1975. Lilith turned to writing full-time in 1978 and has since won many awards. Her book Climb a Lonely Hill was commended for the Book of the Year in 1971’s Children’s Book Council of Australia awards, A Dream of Seas was the IBBY Honour Book for 1990 and Grandpa was the 1999 Honour Book for the CBCA awards. The Paddock was her first picture book.
Robert Roennfeldt was born in Chicago, USA, but spent his childhood in a small country town in Wimmera, Victoria. After living and working for many years in Melbourne, he now lives and works in the Adelaide Hills. His first book, Tiddalick, The Frog Who Caused a Flood, is as popular as ever, and one of about 40 books he has illustrated.
Reviews
evocative illustrations and lyrical text … exceptional … stunning … superb typography
Magpies
A hymn to the resilience and dominance of the land … the poetic text whisks readers beyond the hairbreadth slice of human time … an ambitious undertaking
Publishers Weekly
Roennfeldt’s sweeping impressionistic paintings have an appropriate universality tempered with intimate touches … Thoughtful and carefully wrought
Kirkus Reviews
