The Duck and the Darklings

WINNER: 2016 WA Premier's Book Awards, Children's Books


SHORT-LISTED: 2015 CBCA Picture Book of the Year


SHORT-LISTED: 2015 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature


Grandpapa's eyes shine when he remembers the beauty of the world, long-ago. Peterboy wants to find something wonderful to bring the light to Grandpapa's eyes and keep it there. What he finds is a duck, wounded and broken, and Grandpapa mends her from top to tail; quack, waddle and wing!


The Duck and the Darklings is a triumphant story, for children and adults, about the coming of hope in dark days, the warmth of friendship and the splendour of a new dawn.


Selected by the International Youth Library as a White Raven 2015 book.