Author(s): LORENA CARRINGTON

Middle Readers

Nine-year-old Hazel Bird is happiest on her own, photographing the tiny wild worlds in her neighbourhood bushland. But then she meets Cole, a boy with a hundred pockets and a strange and marvellous way of talking. Together they find hidden treasure and a handwritten book of secret codes Can you help them solve the puzzles and discover the mysterious child who buried it so many years ago? Written and illustrated by Lorena Carrington, this is a unique, interactive story for young readers told in words and pictures, with coded messages to decipher and mysteries to solve. AUTHOR: Lorena Carrington is an illustrator and writer with a background in fine arts, photography and design. She has worked on story collections, anthologies and picture books, and has also created a number of cover illustrations and designs. Her most recent book, Satin (with text by Sophie Masson) was published in 2023 by MidnightSun Publishing. She is the recipient of the 2020 Australian Fairy Tale Society award, for her outstanding contribution to the field of Australian Fairy Tales and a May Gibbs Creative Time Fellowship for 2023. Leaf Letters is her first junior novel.