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Ella and the Useless Day

Meg McKinlay author Karen Blair illustrator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Walker Books Ltd

Published:3rd Nov '22

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Ella and the Useless Day cover

A heartwarming picture book about community, sustainability and how one neighbour’s rubbish is another’s treasure.

Ella’s house is full of useless things! Bricks and boxes and plant pots and shoes and more. So it’s time for Ella and her dad to head to the tip with all the things that are old and broken, too big, or too small, or too something-else-altogether. But who knew? Those holey blankets are just what Mrs Esposito needs and the rusty tricycle is perfect for Mr Montgomery. Will they have anything useless left by the time they reach the tip?

A sweet story about community and living sustainably. -- Charlotte Eyre * Bookseller *
Meg McKinlay tells a subtle, gently humorous tale of recycling and reusing, creativity and community, that is highly pertinent in our throwaway society, where we all ought to be giving serious thought to living more sustainably. * Red Reading Hub *

  • Short-listed for CBCA Book of the Year Awards, Early Childhood 2023 (Australia)

ISBN: 9781529505481

Dimensions: 277mm x 253mm x 7mm

Weight: 430g

32 pages