Willa and Old Miss Annie
Catnip, 2011. ISBN 9781846471193. Illustrated by Kim Lewis.
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Highly commended.
Carnegie, 1995
Three linked stories told in lyrically beautiful language… they have a fairytale flavour and an appeal related to their utter simplicity and the pleasure of words that evoke the ancient storyteller.
The Weekend Australian
Three miniature masterpieces
Junior Bookshelf
Beautifully told and illustrated …a warm, happy treat.
The School Librarian
Outside in a garden she heard someone else crying. It sounded like a little, lost, ghosty child.
There are three linked stories in Willa and Old Miss Annie. The first is about a goat called Joshua. I really did see a white goat in a friend’s garden one night, and thought it was a ghost. The friend was called Willa, and she had rescued the goat from starvation. That’s what gave me the idea.
The second linked story is about a Shetland pony that had been very badly treated and adopted by a little friend of mine called Amy. That’s what gave me the idea for that story.
And one day I met an old lady taking a fox for a walk. She had rescued the fox when it was a cub. And that’s what gave me the idea for that story.
If you read the three stories one after the other you see that they link up to form a novel.
Writing tip
Maybe you could write a story about an animal that has to be saved because it is lost or hurt.
