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A Guide to Rocks

Lately, things have been getting Charlie down. It’s like he’s got a big rock that just won’t go away.

He talks to Dad about it, and Dad brings out a dusty old book with a lot of tough rules. The first rule is you don’t talk about rocks (feelings).

But the rules make things worse – Charlie’s ‘rock’ gets bigger, and everything feels dark and scary. They need some new rules – fast.

Written by Sacha Cotter and illustrated by Josh Morgan

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Description

For readers aged 6 to 10.

About the Kiwi author

Sacha CotterSacha Cotter is an award-winning writer living in Wellington. She has a Graduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning, and spent six years teaching in New Zealand and Spain. She has completed several film courses, and her screenplay Wasabi Peas was a semi-finalist in the L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival in 2013.

Sacha has collaborated on four picture books illustrator, writer and designer Josh Morgan (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata). Their third book, The Bomb was the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year – Supreme Winner, won the Picture Book Award and was a finalist in the Russell Clark Award for Illustration in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2019. It also won the Storylines Notable Book Award Picture Book Category in the same year and was selected as one of the New Zealand Listener 50 Best Books for Kids.

Additional information

Weight120 g
Dimensions26 × 22 cm
First published

2025

Format

Softcover edition

ISBN

9781775507192

Page count

44

Published by

Huia Publishers

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