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A Wisp of Smoke

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A Wisp of Smoke

By Patricia Wrightson About · Illustrated by David Cox About

Her gate creaked. Boots came scrunching along the path and dumping up the steps. The doorbell rang, and Mrs Piggot hurried out. Two more twists of smoke curled up from in front of the hearth, but she didn’t see them.

AuthorPatricia Wrightson About
IllustratorDavid Cox About
Type Of BookAustralian Novel
FormatPaperback
ISBN9780143301011
Published18/03/2004
Lists And AwardsNotable Australian Book, Premier's Reading Challenge 3-4 (NSW), Premier's Reading Challenge 3-5 (SA)
Price Per CopyRRP $14.95
1–9 copies$13.45
10–19 copies$12.70
20+ copies$11.96
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Patricia Wrightson

Patricia Wrightson is one of Australia’s most distinguished writers for children. Her books have won many prestigious awards all over the world. She was awarded an OBE (Officer of the British Empire) in 1977, the Dromkeen Medal in 1984 and the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1986, all for her services to children’s literature. She is a four-time winner of the Australian Children’s Book Council Book of the Year Award: in 1956 for The Crooked Snake, in 1974 for The Nargun and the Stars, in 1978 for The Ice Is Coming and in 1984 for A Little Fear.

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David Cox

David Cox grew up in outback Queensland where he spent some years working on sheep and cattle stations. At the age of twenty-one he set off to England to study art at St Martins School of Art. His first illustration commission was with Puffin Books in the UK that same year.

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