Jacob is just one of millions who won’t eat their crusts. But he is one in a million when it comes to bright ideas.
When tiny creatures from a distant crumbling planet seek Jacob’s help, he sets out to do what he can with his big box of uneaten crusts.
A story about crusts and intergalactic travel by powerhouse creative duo Danny Parker and Matt Ottley.
ISBN:
9781742979830
Format:
Hardback
Pages:
32
Dimensions:
27cm x 22cm
Weight:
410g
RRP:
$24.99
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
In another life Danny Parker worked as a nurse, an actor and an undertaker before settling into work as a drama teacher. He is currently the Director of Drama and Youth Theatre at Hale School, in Perth, WA. A chance meeting with fellow WA-based illustrator and author, Matt Ottley, lead to Danny’s first picture book Tree in 2012. Their second collaboration, Parachute, was shortlisted for CBCA’s 2014
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Matt Ottley was born in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, where he spent the first eleven and a half years of his life. His mother was a landscape artist, and as a child he and his brothers regularly travelled with her on painting excursions into the bush and around the villages of the Western Highlands.
After almost failing high school in Sydney, he lived the itinerate life of a stockman for some years on cattle stations in
