Once I was a Giant by Zeno Sworder

Once I was a Giant by Zeno Sworder2026 CBCA SHORTLISTED PICTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR When a picture book maker runs out of stories, his pencil decides it's time to tell her own 'My first memories were of darkness and reaching for sunlight. My roots connected me to everything. I was small but I was also the forest.' Here is the story of a green giant and a small wanderer who formed a friendship that spanned lifetimes. From the award winning author of My Strange Shrinking Parents comes a

this book will show you how to make protein your secret weapon – for life

including images of each plant

000 years of continuous and unceded First Peoples connection – comprising over 250 different language groups or ‘countries’

I really want to cook everything in this

ruminates on budgie smugglers

and emotions

A Far-flung Life explores the lives of a handful of isolated souls and the secrets they shield in order to survive

fiction (Le Guin and Kafka)

as seen from the suites and bungalows of its most iconic hotelFor nearly ninety years

dragon-like creatures

far closer to the original than that of other recent translations

It is also about the infinite magic of fiction