Kerry Millard Books
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Children's Books
New 32 page paperback edition to be released in late 2022.
Contact me if you'd like to pre-order a copy.
$22.95 AUD (plus postage)
Written and illustrated by Kerry Millard
New edition published by 40 South Publishers 2022
First published by Angus & Robertson in 1996, then by Penguin (Australia) in 2006.
After numerous requests from parents and children who shared it in their early years and who were trying to find it again, I have teamed up with Tasmanian publishers 40 South to create this joyful new edition. It has been wonderful stepping into this world again.
This is a story about friendship and community, with many little side stories going on in the illustrations. Inside the front and back covers you'll find clues to take you on a hunt through the book together.
Gordons Biscuit was read on ABC TVs Play School.
Daisys Quest
The Wilderness Fairies series
Written by Jodie Wells-Slowgrove / Illustrated by Kerry Millard
The Penguin Group (Australia) 2014, 2015
Daisys New Wings
Daisy Takes Charge
Daisy's Secret
Daisy's Gift
Written and illustrated by Kerry Millard
ABC Books 2006
My Sister Has A Big Black Beard
Written by Duncan Ball / Illustrated by Kerry Millard
Angus&Robertson 2009
The Web
Written by Nette Hilton/ Illustrated by Kerry Millard
Angus&Robertson 1992
Ark in the Park
Written by Wendy Orr / Illustrated by Kerry Millard
Angus&Robertson 1997
Nim's Island
Written by Wendy Orr / Illustrated by Kerry Millard
Allen & Unwin 1999
The Princess and the Unicorn
Written by Wendy Blaxland / Illustrated by Kerry Millard
Penguin 2005
Too Much Stuff
Written by Wendy Orr / Illustrated by Kerry Millard
Penguin 2006
Nim at Sea
Written by Wendy Orr / Illustrated by Kerry Millard
Allen&Unwin 2007
Sweetie May
Written by Lisa Shanahan / Illustrated by Kerry Millard
ABC Books 1998, 2007
Sweetie May Overboard!
Written by Lisa Shanahan / Illustrated by Kerry Millard
ABC Books 2001
Just Like Emily
Written by Sally Odgers / Illustrated by Kerry Millard
Angus&Robertson
Strays
Written by Nette Hilton / Illustrated by Kerry Millard
Koala Books 1997
What a Star!
Written by Libby Hathorn/ Illustrated by Kerry Millard
Angus&Robertson 1994
Zoo you later!
Written by Chrostopher Cheng / Illustrated by Kerry Millard
ABC Books 2000
Spook's Shack
Written by Wendy Orr / Illustrated by Kerry Millard
Allen & Unwin 2003
Don't Throw Rocks at Chicken Pox
Written by Bill Condon/ Illustrated by Kerry Millard
Angus&Robertson 1993
Gordon's Biscuit
Wrttten and illustrated by Kerry Millard
Gordon’s Biscuit
Written and illustrated by Kerry Millard
Published 2022 40 South Publishers
First published Angus & Robertson 1996, Penguin Group (Australia) 2006
Ella and Sam had a special place for eating biscuits. Almost nobody could find them there. Nobody except...
Gordon!
Ella and Sam loved Gordon.
Gordon had a very good nose. It was black and cold and shiny and could smell biscuits from three blocks away.
Gordon loved biscuits.
Gordon also loved the park!
But one day there was a new man at the park and there were new signs saying NO DOGS. Gordon was miserable.
Ella and Sam try to cheer Gordon up...but how?
There are lots of stories going on behind the scenes in the illustrations, and there are clues printed around the edges inside the front and back covers that will send you on a hunt through the book.
Gordon was based upon a sweet little scruffy dog I used to have called Meg, whose fur went all over the place and seemed to reflect her mood, just like Gordon’s. He has also inherited the wisps of fur on the end of her ears.
Teachers have been inventive getting their younger pupils to make biscuits, either real or made from various craft materials. Or giant hairy Gordons.
Other teachers have had their kids make their own crazy miniature parks.
One school I visited performed the book as a play, with different characters handing Sam and Ella a paper bag representing their contribution to the biscuit.
The newest edition is paperback, and republishing has provided the opportunity to make some subtle but satisfying changes and additions.
Quincy and Oscar
Written and illustrated by Kerry Millard
Quincy and Oscar
Written and illustrated by Kerry Millard
ABC Books 2006
Quincy and Oscar are friends.
In fact, Quincy and Oscar are best friends.
Quincy has a frisky tail, and Oscar is a boy who goes to school.
Quincy and Oscar have moved to a new neighbourhood and have discovered that nobody seems to need a new boy or a new dog.
Quincy is full of great ideas. One day he decides to go to school with Oscar. That way, all day, they can be with each other.
Through the warmth and fun of the relationship between the two friends, and with Quincy's whimsical approach to school, by the end of the day things are very different for everybody.
This book has been called heartwarming which is a joy to me.
It was written for bigger people to read to smaller people sitting on their lap, and for bigger little people to read for themselves.This book was written with preschool and early primary school children in mind, but I've also added lots of details in the drawings which will be fun for older children to find.
For example, the endpapers tell us something about this particular day at school. If you look carefully, you can work out which schoolbag belongs to whom.
Also, there are two little pink rubber boots (we call them gumboots in Australia) at the beginning, but only one at the end. Can you find what's happened to the other one?
There's a big picture of the town a little way into the book. I had fun creating a whole little community and have made the houses that different characters live in.
Can you work out where Hanayo lives? What about Miss Clover?
There's a little house with a red roof in the top lefthand corner- that's the house I grew up in. And you might be able to look in through a window in another building and find me drawing the pictures for the book (before my hair went grey).
My Sister has a Big Black Beard
Wrttten by Duncan Ball
Illustrated by Kerry Millard
My Sister has a Big Black Beard
My Sister Has a Big Black Beard & Other Quirky Verses by Duncan Ball was a fantastic book to illustrate. It's really exciting to see it turned into a covers-and-pages book after being scribbles on scraps of paper for a long time. They travelled with me around the world. I read the manuscript (what a book is called before it's tidied up and put together between covers) in Canada and France, and started to draw in Kent.
I love the thickness of it and the way the pages flip and flop. The first thing I do with a book usually is to riffle the pages, listen to them slap, and see what they smell like.
The verses are definitely QUIRKY, and being a BIG challenge to illustrate made it one of my FAVOURITE books to do. One page was SO scary that...well, you'll have to see for yourself.
And the cover is EMBOSSED which means the splatters of orange are lumpy! It's my first EMBOSSED book, but not my first book with lumps; I had a rabbit who made quite a few of my books lumpy nibbling them around the edges.
Book List
Books which I have both written and illustrated:
Gordon's Biscuit
by Kerry Millard (40 South Publishers 2002, Angus&Robertson1996, republished by Penguin in 2006, also published in Korea and China)
Quincy & Oscar
by Kerry Millard (ABC Books 2006)
Other books which I have illustrated or cartooned for:
Daisy's Gift - Book 5 Wilderness Fairies series
by Jodie Wells-Slowgrove (Penguin Australia 2015)
Daisy's Secret - Book 4 Wilderness Fairies series
by Jodie Wells-Slowgrove (Penguin Australia 2014)
Daisy Takes Charge - Book 3 Wilderness Fairies series
by Jodie Wells-Slowgrove (Penguin Australia 2014)
Daisy's New Wings - Book 2 Wilderness Fairies series
by Jodie Wells-Slowgrove (Penguin Australia 2014)
Daisy's Quest - Book 1 Wilderness Fairies series
by Jodie Wells-Slowgrove (Penguin Australia 2014)
MY SISTER HAS A BIG BLACK BEARD
by Duncan Ball (Angus&Robertson 2009)
Nim at Sea
by Wendy Orr (Allen & Unwin 2007, Random House USA 2007)Also in Taiwanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan, Basque, Chinese, Swedish, Italian, Brazilian, Polish, German, Turkish, Hebrew, UK.
Too Much Stuff
by Wendy Orr (Penguin, 2006)
The Happiness Handbook
by Dr. Timothy Sharp (Finch 2005)
The Princess and the Unicorn
by Wendy Blaxland (Penguin 2005) Nominated for CBC Book of The Year 2006
Best Australian Political Cartoons (Scribe 2004)
Spook's Shack
by Wendy Orr (Allen & Unwin 2003)
The Law Handbook 8th Edition (Redfern Legal Centre 2002)
Sweetie May Overboard!
by Lisa Shanahan (ABC Books 2001) Also published in Korea
Dr. Gemma
by Margaret Wild (NSW Dept Education and Training 2001)
Zoo You Later! by Chris Cheng (ABC Books 2000)
Nim's Island
by Wendy Orr (Allen & Unwin 1999, two new editions 2007 and 2008)- LA Times list of Best Children's Books for 2000. Also published in German, Italian, Basque, Turkish, Greek, Chinese, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Spanish and Catalan, Nth American (Random House; two new editions 2007), Taiwanese, Portuguese, Hebrew, Polish, French, Vietnamese, Lithuanian, Slovenian and UK. Nim's Island is also a major feature film strarring Abigail Breslin and Jodie Foster.
Tongue-lashing
by Jean Kittson (Penguin Books 1998)
Sweetie May
by Lisa Shanahan (ABC Books 1998, 2007) Also published in Korea
Strays
by Nette Hilton (Koala Books 1997)
Breast Bottle Bowl
by Hillis & Stone (Angus & Robertson 1996)
Ark in the Park
by Wendy Orr (Angus&Robertson 1994) CBC Book Of The Year Younger Readers 1995 Also published in France, Korea, Basque, Spanish, (Henry Holt New York 2000)
What a Star
by Libby Hathorn (Angus & Robertson 1994)
Learning to Talk, Talking to Learn
by Clark & Ireland (Bay Books 1994)
Don't Throw Rocks at Chicken Pox
by Bill Condon (Angus & Robertson 1993)
Fold Your Own Creepy Crawlies
by Campbell Morris (Angus & Robertson 1992)
Pith Without Thubtanth
by Columb Brennan (Law Institute of Victoria 1992)
The Web
by Nette Hilton (Angus&Robertson 1992) Honour Book Younger Readers, CBC Awards 1992, Commended by the Family Therapy Conference 1992 Family Awards For Children's Books. Also published in France.
Just Like Emily
by Sally Odgers (Angus & Robertson 1992)
It's a Mann's World
by Collette Mann (Weldon Publishing 1990)
You Wouldn't Read About It
by Geraldine Doyle (Only Joking 1990)
What is This Equal Opportunity? by Elizabeth Jurman (CCH 1989)