The Brand New Creature

Created in mixed media on home made Indian paper, this debut picture book is simple, comforting and very stylish. Bored with her domestic pets, a little girl sets off from home in her search of a crocrodile, not knowing what it is nor what it looks like. She encounters many exotic creatures through the heat of an African day but does not find the one she is looking for - or does she? What is the green, scaly, long-tailed creature she finds hatching from an egg? Illustrated in subtle colours by the author's sister, this title has been deservedly shortlisted for the Mother Goose Award - open to illustrators publishing a first major illustrated book.