Did My Mother Do That?
Age 5+
Picture Storybooks
A warm and wryly amusing bedtime story about the bond between mothers and their babies. New paperback edition.
Did your mother hatch you out of an egg? Or did she carry you about in her pocket? Maybe she fed you mice for dinner? No! Your mother didn’t do that!
Creators
Sharon Holt grew up in Auckland, New Zealand. Before becoming a full-time children's author, she worked as a teacher, a journalist and she also ran a second hand children's book shop. Your Mother Didn't Do That! is her first book for Walker Books.
Brian Lovelock is a scientist working in the power industry in New Zealand. He has painted all his life but has only recently ventured into the world of book illustration. His previous titles with Walker Books Australia include Your Mother Didn’t Do That! and Roadworks which won the Picture Book category in the 2009 New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children & Young Adults. In 2013, Brian was long-listed for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Award for his work on Demolition. In 2014, Flight of the Honey Bee won the LIANZA Russell Clark Illustration Award, was a Storylines Notable Book and was a finalist for the LIANZA Elsie Locke Non-Fiction Award and the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards.
Reviews
A lovely bedtime – or any time – story, illustrated with lovely mixed media illustrations using a combination of acrylic, watercolour and pencil. The animals hop, swim and wander across the pages, as they enter Holly and Dad’s imaginations, so that the animals and the humans share the spreads in a way which will intrigue young readers. Lovely.
Aussie Reviews
