by Gavin
Bishop - Random House NZ - $21.00
A delightful children's story about a digger; full of
vehicles and noises and activity, with a heartwarming ending.
Bruiser and the big snow features the big noisy
digger Bruiser dealing
with a major snow fall in a city. He works hard, clearing roads and paths and
motorways, making the town safe for all.
When he settles down to rest at the end, he hears a tiny sound and discovers a trike buried under the snow. All is well when he rescues the trike.
When he settles down to rest at the end, he hears a tiny sound and discovers a trike buried under the snow. All is well when he rescues the trike.
About the author:
Gavin Bishop is a highly
acclaimed children's book author and illustrator. He won the Margaret Mahy Medal in 2000, as well as numerous fellowships and
national book awards.
His book Weaving Earth and Sky won the non-fiction
section and the Book of the Year Award of the NZ Post Children's Book Awards
2003, and was shortlisted for the LIANZA Elsie Lock Medal in 2003. He has won
the LIANZA Russell Clark Medal for Illustration four times: Mrs
McGinty And The Bizarre Plant (1981); Kiwi Moon (2006); Rats! (2008); and
There was a Crooked Man (2010).
Among his successful partnerships has
been that with writer Joy Cowley, with whom he won the Best in Junior Fiction
and Book of the Year at the 2008 NZ Post Children's Book Awards for Snake and
Lizard. The Storylines Gavin Bishop Award for Picture Book Illustration was
established in 2009 to encourage emergent illustrators and to acknowledge
Gavin's contribution to the writing and illustrating of children's picture
books.
In 2013 he was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, and
President of Honour of the NZ Society of Authors.
Gavin's artwork has featured
in exhibitions internationally, including Japan and Czechoslovakia. He has
written and designed two ballets for the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company:
Terrible Tom and Te Maia and the Sea Devil. In 2003 he shared the
Ursula Bethell Residency with Catherine Chidgey.
Other award-winning titles include: Mrs McGinty And The Bizarre Plant (Russell Clark Medal 1981); The Year of the Yelvertons (illustrator; the 1981 Esther Glen Medal; Mr Fox (Noma Concours 1984 Grand Prize); Hinepau (New Zealand Picture Book of the Year 1993); The House that Jack Built (Book of the Year and Best Picture Book at the 2000 NZ Post Book Awards); Friends: Snake and Lizard (with Joy Cowley, Children's Choice Junior Fiction, 2010 NZ Post Children's Book Awards); and Mister Whistler (written by Margaret Mahy, winning Best Picture Book at the 2013 NZ Post Children's Book Awards).
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