EGG

A thoughtful story about being adrift in the world with only the kindness of strangers to rely on.

When something odd washes up on the eggs' island, they are scared. It looks like them, but different. What if this strange egg hatches? What if there are more of them?

Most of them hope the newcomer will float back to where it came from, but one little egg is intrigued. Can their friendship prove there is nothing to fear?

Egg is a multi-layered picture book with thought-provoking metaphors around environment, generational disparity, global warming, refugees, the power of kindness, and what it means to have a home.

Clare Atkins is a Sydney-based author, scriptwriter, script editor and producer. She's written for many successful Australian television dramas and has also worked in community development and education. Clare's first novel, Nona & Me, was written while she lives in the remote Aboriginal community of Yirrkala in the Northern Territory. Nona & Me was a CBCA Honour Book and NT Literary Award-winner. Her second novel for young adults, Between Us, won a CBCA and IBBY and was shortlisted for the Readings Young Adult Prize, the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and the Prime Minister's Literary Awards.

Harrison Vial is an illustrator based in Adelaide. Amazingly he works stacking supermarket shelves but had a hidden artistic talent just waiting to be discovered! Egg is his debut book and the illustrations speak for themselves. Edgy, bordering on street art!