By Louise Greig (author) , Ashling Lindsay (illustrator)
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Louise Greig's lyrical storytelling highlights the magic in everyday experiences and is accompanied by Ashling Lindsay's warm, endearing illustrations. A wonderful picture book about the importance of kindness, looking out for others and taking time to appreciate the world around you.
The second magical picture book from the author and illustrator of The Night Box.
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The second magical picture book from the author and illustrator of The Night Box .
High above the bustle of the city, are eyes that watch, and hands that know, it's time to pause the clock ... and for one tiny second between tick and tock, the city stops!
Liesel notices the things that everyone else is too busy to see. When she hears a stray whimper and watches a lonely boy on a roundabout, she decides it's time to pause the clock and lend a helping hand.
While the city freezes, Liesel quietly carries out little acts of kindness and breathes colour, life and happiness back into the city.
Louise and Ashling's debut picture book, The Night Box , has been nominated for the Kate Greenaway Award and shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Teach Primary Book Awards and the Klaus Flugge Prize.
A breathtaking, quiet story . . . Greig's onomatopoeic, hypnotic text . . . is teamed with Lindsay's fleeting, stretched, colourful portraits of people, plants and places to create a pictorial poem, filled with the breath-held calm of a moment outside time.', Imogen Russell Williams, The Times Literary Supplement
'Lyrical words and pictures work in perfect accord to make a memorable, magical book', Jillrbennett, Red Reading Hub
Louise Greig is an award winning poet and a children's picture book author with a unique, lyrical voice. Her childhood was filled with animals, the poems of Robert Louis Stevenson and picture books by iconic children’s writers such as Margaret Wise Brown, Charlotte Zolotow, Ruth Krauss, Maurice Sendak, Astrid Lindgren and Tove Jansson. Her debut picture book for Egmont The Night Box has been translated into 10 languages and has been nominated for the 2018 Kate Greenaway Medal. Louise lives in Aberdeen and when not writing is a director of a dog rescue and re-homing organisation. The wild solitude of Scotland and the beauty of nature remain strong influences in her life.
The second magical picture book from the author and illustrator of The Night Box. High above the bustle of the city, are eyes that watch, and hands that know, it's time to pause the clock ... and for one tiny second between tick and tock, the city stops!
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Between Tick and Tock and determined it is suitable for children aged 5-6 years old
Between Tick and Tock features in the following genres: Featured Books for 5+ readers, Recommendations
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Between Tick and Tock was written by Louise Greig and published by Farshore an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Between Tick and Tock has 32 pages
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