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The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade
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The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade

Davina Bell
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CBCA Book of the Year Award Winner (Crichton Award for New Illustrators) 2016 The night before the underwater fancy-dress parade, Alfie got that feeling… Sometimes it’s hard to be brave. Sometimes you get that feeling. Sometimes you’re just not ready… Until, one day, you are. From a dynamic new picture-book partnership comes the story of Alfie and a big octopus wearing a tiny hat and the things you can only whisper to the cowboys on your wallpaper.
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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Country
Australia
Date
25 February 2015
Pages
32
ISBN
9781925106206
CBCA Book of the Year Award Winner (Crichton Award for New Illustrators) 2016 The night before the underwater fancy-dress parade, Alfie got that feeling… Sometimes it’s hard to be brave. Sometimes you get that feeling. Sometimes you’re just not ready… Until, one day, you are. From a dynamic new picture-book partnership comes the story of Alfie and a big octopus wearing a tiny hat and the things you can only whisper to the cowboys on your wallpaper.
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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Country
Australia
Date
25 February 2015
Pages
32
ISBN
9781925106206

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