Signed, first edition of the yet-to-be-released middle grade verse novel by award-winning author Zana Fraillon

A first edition signed copy of my yet-to-be-released-or-even-announced new middle grade verse novel with UQP, Song of a Thousand Seas.

Illustrated by the amazing Aviva Reed, with gorgeous pictures throughout, this will be released and sent to the lucky winner in October.

Please note: this is a physical item and will only be posted within Australia.

All day long we can hear

that Sea howl prowling wild

inside our brains and every part of us is straining

to feel it taste it twirl it whirl it swirl it

inside our body

again.

Houdini the octopus lives in an aquarium, but she misses her home in the wild Sea. She doesn’t like the visitors who bang on her tank. Or the way she can’t feel the sun on her skin or the wind rippling the water. It’s a dull existence for a creature with nine brains.

Then one day she meets someone who is different to the other visitors. Juno’s busy brain buzzes with so many questions and thoughts that Houdini’s skin tingles with wonder.

But the singing of the Sea is growing stronger and harder to resist. Can Houdini make Juno understand what she needs before it’s too late?

Zana Fraillon is an internationally acclaimed, multi-award-winning author of books for children and young adults. Her work has been published in over 15 countries and is in development for both stage and screen.

‍Zana’s books have won the Amnesty CILIP Honour Award; the ABIA Book of the Year for Older Readers; The Readings YA Book Prize; the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards; the CBCA Honour Book Award; and her book The Bone Sparrow was chosen as the biennial book to represent Australia for the International Board on Books for Young People. Her books have also been shortlisted for the Carnegie Award; the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize; the Prime Minister’s Literary Award; the INKY awards; the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award; the Queensland Literary Award; the CBCA Book of the Year Awards; the UK Crime Fest Award; and the Aurealis Awards.