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Hatch and Match

A look-and-find book

Ruth Paul Ruth Paul

$15.99

Board book

Forthcoming
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English
Walker Books
01 March 2026
A search-and-match adventure with patterns, colours and number fun from the award-winning author and illustrator, Ruth Paul - now available as a Board Book!

Cluck, cluck, cluck. Scritch and scratch. Chickens look for eggs that match.

Help the chickens look for their eggs! There’s lots to find.

A playful search-and-match adventure with patterns, colours and number fun from award-winning author and illustrator, Ruth Paul.
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Illustrated by:   Ruth Paul
Imprint:   Walker Books
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 172mm, 
ISBN:   9781761601149
ISBN 10:   1761601148
Pages:   32
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 2 to 6 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  English as a second language
Format:   Board book
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Ruth Paul is an award-winning writer and illustrator of children’s picture books, and a New Zealand Arts Laureate (2019). Her books have been published in New Zealand, Australia, USA, Canada, the UK, China and Korea, with translations into five languages. She has twice won the Picture Book Award at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Ruth is an experienced presenter at both schools and literary events, and takes up the University of Otago College of Education Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in Residence fellowship in 2023. She is also a champion of her local community Makara, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, where she lives and looks after a large native forest project.

Reviews for Hatch and Match: A look-and-find book

An array of different coloured chickens will enthuse younger readers as they look over each exciting, colourful page full of things to find. * ReadPlus * This book is chaotic, alive and completely mesmerising. It’s use of colour, horizon, shape and diversity of characters is pure delight. There’s something new to pore over at every page turn, and a veritable feast of illustrations, questions and ideas to follow through. With tactile illustrations that you want to run your fingers over, this book will reward re-reading, re-watching and re-engaging with, every single time. Highly recommended. * Kids Book Review * Ruth Paul has created a fun-filled and sneakily educational piece of joyful reading that is bound to be pored over and read again and again. * Magpies *


  • Short-listed for New Zealand Book Awards, Picture Book Award 2024 (New Zealand)
  • Winner of Storylines Notable Book - Picture Book 2024 (New Zealand)

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