The Biggest Australian Road Trip Ever
Age 5+
Picture Books
Hop on board for the amazing, BIG Australian road trip of a lifetime - again! This time it's all about seeing the BIG things in Australia up close ...
We’re travelling from Melbourne, the hugest trip yet,
to find in Australia, the largest you’ll get!
Aunty will make a commemorative quilt
of the big Aussie things that Australians have built.
In The Biggest Australian Road Trip Ever a family visits every state and territory of Australia to discover the BIG things we love to erect to celebrate who we are - taking in the big landscapes, climates and wonders that Australia has to offer along the way. Each page has exuberant and dynamic artwork along with fun facts about the iconic locations they visit.
Creators
Jackie Hosking began writing for children after completing a creative writing course and her first children’s poem, "If I Were a Giant" was published by The School Magazine in 2005. Walker Books published her first picture book, The Croc and the Platypus, in 2014. It was shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards in 2015. Jackie wrote the book as a writing exercise to see if she could emulate Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussycat, with an Aussie twist. In 2019 she was awarded a May Gibbs Creative Time Fellowship where she worked on her writing in Canberra for a month. Jackie loves to write in rhyme and when she’s not writing in rhyme she loves to help others with their rhyme via her Rhyming Manuscript Editing Service or through her writing course, Metre Matters.
Grown in Australia, Lesley Vamos received a high distinction in BA Design at COFA with a special honorary award in animation, although she still holds a pencil incorrectly. She spends her time doodling, travelling, running her design and illustration business (Striped Designs) and hanging out with her little family.
