Freya Blackwood
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Freya Blackwood was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1975 and grew up in Orange in New South Wales, Australia. She earned a Bachelor of Design degree (Visual Communications) at the University of Technology, Sydney and then worked for several years in the film industry in Sydney and Wellington, New mehr anzeigen Zealand. She is a full-time illustrator. Her illustrations for Two Summers won the Crichton Award in 2004. She won The Territory Read Awards 2016 for Children's literature/YA fiction with author Irena Kobald. Her 2017 book, The Great Rabbit Chase, was named an Honour Book in the 2018 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards, for Picture Book. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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With its simple text and charming artwork, Ivy Loves to Giveis an engaging tale of a young girl exploring her world, happily engaged in a game of giving. It is clear that her borrowing of various items, although it causes some chaos in her family, is not seen as destructive, or harmful, although it is also clear that she is meant to return them, eventually. Here is no "youngest sibling allowed to do whatever she pleases," as in Rukhsana Khan's Big Red Lollipop, and so the conclusion, in which Ivy's older sister allows her to keep the tutu she has borrowed, and is rewarded in turn with a gift that truly does come from Ivy, is really quite heartwarming. All in all, a lovely little tale, with a gentle message of family love, and Blackwood's appealing artwork!… (mehr)