The second exciting book about Millie and her superpower of making everyday objects into something beautiful and useful.Millie Mak is now ten, and often feels shy and awkward. But by using her special...The second exciting book about Millie and her superpower of making everyday objects into something beautiful and useful.
Millie Mak is now ten, and often feels shy and awkward. But by using her special gift to make handy and beautiful things, Millie befriends residents at the aged care home where her mum works. When the whole school becomes involved in making hats for the residents, a tricky situation arises between Millie's friends. Millie is a maker - but can she also mend friendships?
Millie also discovers her sewing superpower can attract the attention of important adults. A... Read More
The second exciting book about Millie and her superpower of making everyday objects into something beautiful and useful.Millie Mak is now ten, and often feels shy and awkward. But by using her special...The second exciting book about Millie and her superpower of making everyday objects into something beautiful and useful.
Millie Mak is now ten, and often feels shy and awkward. But by using her special gift to make handy and beautiful things, Millie befriends residents at the aged care home where her mum works. When the whole school becomes involved in making hats for the residents, a tricky situation arises between Millie's friends. Millie is a maker - but can she also mend friendships?
Millie also discovers her sewing superpower can attract the attention of important adults. A... Read More
Description
The second exciting book about Millie and her superpower of making everyday objects into something beautiful and useful.
Millie Mak is now ten, and often feels shy and awkward. But by using her special gift to make handy and beautiful things, Millie befriends residents at the aged care home where her mum works. When the whole school becomes involved in making hats for the residents, a tricky situation arises between Millie's friends. Millie is a maker - but can she also mend friendships?
Millie also discovers her sewing superpower can attract the attention of important adults. And when she and her friends are invited to be on TV - on Young Hero Hour! - they must work out how to stay true to themselves.
From the creators of Millie Mak the Maker comes further exciting adventures, plus detailed but easy-to-follow instructions to make the beautiful things that feature in the book.
Praise for Millie Mak the Maker
'... a book with an enormous heart ... a true treasure in Australian middle grade'
Readings
'Sher Rill Ng's illustrations contribute to the warm, enticing, creative world Millie inhabits, and Pung again demonstrates she is comfortable writing for any age group'
Books+Publishing
Details
Pages: 256
Publisher: HarperCollins
Imprint: HarperCollins
Series: MILLIE MAK THE MAKER
Publication Date: 4th September 2024
ISBN: 9781460716106
Author Bio
Alice Pung OAM is an award-winning writer based in Melbourne. She is the bestselling author of the memoirs Unpolished Gem and Her Father’s Daughter, and the essay collection Close to Home, and the editor of the anthologies Growing Up Asian in Australia and My First Lesson. Her first novel, Laurinda, won the Ethel Turner Prize at the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, One Hundred Days was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin and Voss literary prizes and longlisted for an ABIA Award in the category of Literary Fiction. Alice was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for services to literature in 2022.
Sher Rill Ng is a Woi Wurrung/Melbourne-based illustrator. She designed and illustrated for SaaS companies before releasing her first author-illustrated picture book Our Little Inventor in 2019. In 2022, Our Little Inventor was adapted into a children's opera, composed by Emma Jayakumar and presented by the West Australian Opera. Her work includes middle grade book covers for The Twelve by Cindy Lin, The Rogues by Lian Tanner and Winnie Zeng Unleashes a Legend by Katie Zhao. Most recently Sher Rill has illustrated Be Careful, Xiao Xin! written by Alice Pung.
The second exciting book about Millie and her superpower of making everyday objects into something beautiful and useful.
Millie Mak is now ten, and often feels shy and awkward. But by using her special gift to make handy and beautiful things, Millie befriends residents at the aged care home where her mum works. When the whole school becomes involved in making hats for the residents, a tricky situation arises between Millie's friends. Millie is a maker - but can she also mend friendships?
Millie also discovers her sewing superpower can attract the attention of important adults. And when she and her friends are invited to be on TV - on Young Hero Hour! - they must work out how to stay true to themselves.
From the creators of Millie Mak the Maker comes further exciting adventures, plus detailed but easy-to-follow instructions to make the beautiful things that feature in the book.
Praise for Millie Mak the Maker
'... a book with an enormous heart ... a true treasure in Australian middle grade'
Readings
'Sher Rill Ng's illustrations contribute to the warm, enticing, creative world Millie inhabits, and Pung again demonstrates she is comfortable writing for any age group'
Books+Publishing
Pages: 256
Publisher: HarperCollins
Imprint: HarperCollins
Series: MILLIE MAK THE MAKER
Publication Date: 4th September 2024
ISBN: 9781460716106
Alice Pung OAM is an award-winning writer based in Melbourne. She is the bestselling author of the memoirs Unpolished Gem and Her Father’s Daughter, and the essay collection Close to Home, and the editor of the anthologies Growing Up Asian in Australia and My First Lesson. Her first novel, Laurinda, won the Ethel Turner Prize at the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, One Hundred Days was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin and Voss literary prizes and longlisted for an ABIA Award in the category of Literary Fiction. Alice was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for services to literature in 2022.
Sher Rill Ng is a Woi Wurrung/Melbourne-based illustrator. She designed and illustrated for SaaS companies before releasing her first author-illustrated picture book Our Little Inventor in 2019. In 2022, Our Little Inventor was adapted into a children's opera, composed by Emma Jayakumar and presented by the West Australian Opera. Her work includes middle grade book covers for The Twelve by Cindy Lin, The Rogues by Lian Tanner and Winnie Zeng Unleashes a Legend by Katie Zhao. Most recently Sher Rill has illustrated Be Careful, Xiao Xin! written by Alice Pung.
