All children love to dress up. Annabella is no different. She decides this is the day to put on her finery and head off into the world. She has a beautiful dress, the special hat, a long gold chain, lacy white gloves and socks with frilly edges. She looks so fabulous but perhaps this is not quite the right outfit for climbing trees, riding a billy-cart or a game of soccer.
I mentioned Nette Hilton in a recent post. While I was working at the Children's hospital Book Bunker this week I took the opportunity to revisit some books by Nette Hilton.
A Proper Little Lady was published in 1989 and short listed by the CBCA in 1990. The winner that year was The Very Best of Friends by Margaret Wild illustrated by Julie Vivas. Nette Hilton has had many titles listed for CBCA awards/short lists and nearly all of them appear now on the Premier's Reading Challenge lists except, oddly, not A Proper Little Lady. I wonder why it has been left off. You can see a video of the whole book here.
A Proper Little Lady is illustrated by Cathy Wilcox. Cathy is the illustrator of one of my future Tuesday Treasures and sadly another title recently culled from my former library - The Weird things in Nanna's house. Kirkus writes this book has: "Wilcox's economical, skillfully drafted illustrations."
Her clever cartoons regularly appear in our Sydney newspapers.
Nette Hilton has a new book series which begins with The First Adventures of Princess Peony and she said at a recent CBCA event that A Proper Little Lady was her inspiration. If you need a book to explain/demonstrate onomatopoeia in action this is the perfect book. Take a look at this word list:
swish swish swish
tap tap tap
chink chink chink
flop flop flop
chink snap dangle
You could pair this book with Polly's Pink Pyjamas and the poetry collection 15 Ways to get Dressed.
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