The Queen on our Corner Award-winning author by Lucy Christopher (author) and Nia Tudor (illustrator)

Nobody notices the Queen on the corner. Nobody, that is… except one young girl. Through her eyes, the woman who dwells in the abandoned plot is a warrior queen, with many battles fought and won. When, one day, danger comes to the street and the Queen on the corner sounds the alarm, the little girl must find a way to thank her. Can she bring the community together to turn the Queen’s corner into a home?

Product Details

Format

Hardback

ISBN

9781911373889

Publisher

Lantana Publishing

Date published

October 7th, 2021

Lexile measure

AD640L

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 3.5; Lower years; 0.5 points

Other details

32 pages

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Lucy Christopher

Lucy Christopher, author of Stolen and Flyaway, was born in Wales but grew up in Australia, living in Melbourne from the age of nine until she completed her undergraduate degree at Melbourne University.

After various attempts at being an actor, a coffee maker, a waitress and a nature guide, she moved back to the UK to earn a distinction in a Creative Writing MA from Bath Spa University. Lucy took on part-time work as a university lecturer at Bath Spa University, teaching on the undergraduate and the MA creative writing courses, and is currently undertaking a PhD to explore the ways that Australian literature represents wild places, particularly in its writing for young adults.

Lucy’s debut novel, Stolen, was written as part of this PhD and it has gone on to win the prestigious Branford Boase and the Hull Children’s Book Award. In addition, Stolen was shortlisted in the USA for an American Library Association award for Best Fiction for Young Adults and a Children’s Book Council of Australia award. In the UK, it was on the shortlist for both the Coventry and Leeds Book Awards and the Lancashire and Southern Schools Book Awards. It was also on the 2010 longlist for the Carnegie Medal.

Lucy is currently working on her third novel for The Chicken House.