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by Lanisha Butterfield (Author)
Winner of the 2025 Children's Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing
Winner of Derby Book Festival's - Derby Children's Picture Book Award 2025
Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2025
Illustrator Hoang Giang longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration 2025
"An utterly stunning debut picture book about community, nature and the things that bring us together. Warmly written and gorgeously illustrated, Lanisha and Hoang are a perfectly synced storytelling duo." - Dapo Adeola, illustrator of LOOK UP! Selected for Book Trust's Great Book Guide 2024-2025
Shortlisted for the Teach Early Years Awards 2024
Author Biography
Lanisha is a lifelong book junkie, whose quiet ambition of becoming an author - long-held and nurtured with lunchtime trips to the local bookshop - were realised during lockdown, with a serendipitous, snap decision to join an online Penguin Children's Book Workshop.
A woman of Black mixed race heritage, born and raised on a council estate in Oxford, to a hardworking single mother, she is very proud of her working class roots and hopes to challenge misconceptions of council estate life and remind readers - that, no matter where they are from, or what their family might look like, they are just as worthy of fairy-tale and magic, as anyone else. Her debut children's picture book, Flower Block, publishes in 2024. Hoang Giang was born in Dalat, a small highland city in Vietnam, before moving to Ho Chi Minh City to work as an illustrator. She always has fun while working and likes to make her characters as lively as possible - because the story belongs to the characters, themselves.
Number of Pages: 32
Publication Date: May 26, 2026
