PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Wai Chim is the Chinese-American-Australian author of a number of children's and YA titles including Freedom Swimmer and most recently The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling, which was a Kirkus Prize finalist in the US and was short-listed for the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Last-Place Lin is her first picture book and was inspired by her time on Australian Survivor: Brains v Brawn.Born to immigrant parents in New York, Wai grew up speaking Cantonese at home and brings a lot of her diasporic identity into her work. She spent some time living in Japan before making Australia her permanent home. In addition to writing, Wai works as a Business System Analyst for The Starlight Children's Foundation. She currently lives in Sydney with her husband and beloved cat, Freddie. Freda Chiu is an author and illustrator from Sydney, Australia. As well as illustrating children's books, her work spans comics, editorial and retail graphics. Outside her art practice, Freda lectures in Illustration at the University of Technology Sydney. Her debut picture book,A Trip to the Hospital, was short-listed for the CBCA Award for New Illustrator and the IBBY Australia Ena Nol Awards.
'This picture book about perseverance and resilience will prompt conversations about anxieties around sports days - or anything that a child might feel they're bad at - other people's expectations of us and how much we can achieve with peer support. Freda Chiu's illustrations capture the brightness of school sports day, an array of facial expressions, and the diversity of children and adults in the school. Chim's text is pleasingly simple and reassuring for readers aged four-and-up, and includes the occasional stretch word (heave, gaze, footfalls).' Books+Publishing
