Wrong Way | Mark Macleod
March 10th 2010 22:16
From distinguished children’s author Mark Macleod comes a playful new picture book about spreading your wings and finding your own way in the world
Wrong Way
Mark Macleod and Judith Rossell
Right Way and Your Way were no trouble at all.
They listened to their motherand did whatever she said.
But Wrong Way always wanted to do things differently.
Sometimes a day out doesn’t go according to plan. But when one little duck wants to make a big splash all by himself, the wrong way to do things turns out to be just right!
From the author:
There was an old man living in the house behind ours when I was growing up, who always started his meal with dessert. ‘I like it the best,’ he said, ‘so why should I leave it till last?’ We were conventional and ate dessert last in my own family, but I was thrilled by his rebelliousness.
So although as the eldest child, I was a good boy and tried to please my parents, I grew up with a healthy disrespect for rules.
As an adult I told stories about the naughty things my own children did, and I noticed that the students I remembered for years — and remember to this day — were the ‘difficult’ ones. And as I was thinking about this little duck called Wrong Way, I asked myself why.
The answer is that they made me question my beliefs and my behaviour.
People who challenge the usual way we do things might make life difficult, but they also make it infinitely more interesting. That is what revolutionaries, inventors and adventurers do: they show us new ways of looking at the world.
Charming prose and Judith Rossell’s adorable illustrations make this book a delightful and uplifting treat!
MARK MACLEOD has had a long and distinguished career in the world of children’s books, as a lecturer, publisher, freelance editor,
President of the Children’s Book Council, and an author. He lives in the Blue Mountains.
JUDITH ROSSELL worked as a CSIRO scientist, for a cotton spinning company, and studied textile design in Scotland before becoming a full-time illustrator. Her books include several sumptuously illustrated maze adventure books, puzzle books and picture books.
Judith lives in Melbourne.
Wrong Way
Mark Macleod and Judith Rossell
But Wrong Way always wanted to do things differently.
Sometimes a day out doesn’t go according to plan. But when one little duck wants to make a big splash all by himself, the wrong way to do things turns out to be just right!
From the author:
There was an old man living in the house behind ours when I was growing up, who always started his meal with dessert. ‘I like it the best,’ he said, ‘so why should I leave it till last?’ We were conventional and ate dessert last in my own family, but I was thrilled by his rebelliousness.
So although as the eldest child, I was a good boy and tried to please my parents, I grew up with a healthy disrespect for rules.
As an adult I told stories about the naughty things my own children did, and I noticed that the students I remembered for years — and remember to this day — were the ‘difficult’ ones. And as I was thinking about this little duck called Wrong Way, I asked myself why.
The answer is that they made me question my beliefs and my behaviour.
People who challenge the usual way we do things might make life difficult, but they also make it infinitely more interesting. That is what revolutionaries, inventors and adventurers do: they show us new ways of looking at the world.
Charming prose and Judith Rossell’s adorable illustrations make this book a delightful and uplifting treat!
MARK MACLEOD has had a long and distinguished career in the world of children’s books, as a lecturer, publisher, freelance editor,
President of the Children’s Book Council, and an author. He lives in the Blue Mountains.
JUDITH ROSSELL worked as a CSIRO scientist, for a cotton spinning company, and studied textile design in Scotland before becoming a full-time illustrator. Her books include several sumptuously illustrated maze adventure books, puzzle books and picture books.
Judith lives in Melbourne.
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