Granny McFlitter's Eggcellent Easter

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Hold on to your bonnets - can champion knitter Granny McFlitter rescue the Easter Parade in the knit of time? A fabulously crafty story that buzzes with fun and hot cross buns.

Champion knitter Granny McFlitter will have you in stitches with this very special Easter story by Heather Haylock and Lael Chisholm.

Granny reached for some needles and wool from her hat.
“Buzz OFF, bees!” she shouted, “We’re NOT having that!”

The town’s annual Easter Parade turns to chaos when a swarm of bees is attracted to the flowers on the Easter Bunny’s float. Can our champion knitter Granny McFlitter rescue it in the knit of time?

With bouncing rhyme and exuberant illustrations from the award-winning creators of Granny McFlitter, this fabulous story celebrates Easter traditions and handicrafts.

Read all the Granny McFlitter books by Heather Haylock and Lael Chisholm!
Granny McFlitter, the Champion Knitter
Granny McFlitter: A Country Yarn
Granny McFlitter: The Knit Before Christmas

Published: 28 February 2023
ISBN: 9781761047176
Imprint: Picture Puffin
Format: Paperback
Pages: 32
RRP: $21.00

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About the authors

Heather Haylock

As a child, Heather Haylock could often be found reading a book while sitting on her horse, or perched way up high in a tree. Nowadays Heather loves the challenge of knitting words into stories of her own.

She is the author of Granny McFlitter the Champion Knitter (2018), which won a Storylines Notable Book Award 2019 and was shortlisted for the Best Picture Book category of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Its sequels, Granny McFlitter: A Country Yarn (2019) and Granny McFlitter: The Knit Before Christmas (2022) were awarded Storylines Notable Picture Book Awards. Granny McFlitter's Eggcellent Easter (2023) is the crafty character's latest adventure.

Thanks to all her research for the Granny McFlitter stories, Heather is also now able to knit yarn into jumpers and other clever shapes. If you want to find her, try looking up. She may be reading, writing or knitting way up high in a tree.

Lael Chisholm

Lael Chisholm lives in Palmerston North, New Zealand, and has loved drawing ever since she was old enough to hold a pencil. After winning the Storylines Gavin Bishop Award in 2017 at the age of 19, Lael has been illustrating picture books in her free time, and has since worked on several award-winning books, most notably the Granny McFlitter series with author Heather Haylock.

Praise for Granny McFlitter's Eggcellent Easter

Heather has a terrific imagination and the story is like a sparkly Easter egg full of surprises. A rhyming picture book might clunk and thunk but this one chimes as it rhymes!...I think this is the best Granny McFlitter book yet. I highly recommend it.
Paula Green, Poetry Box

[D]elightful and bouncy, and fun to read aloud...The illustrations are joyously colourful, with the same lovely textures as the previous books. I loved the variety of pages filled with swirls of water or trees, interspersed with wise use of white space (and bees; I’ll let you find those for yourself!).
Linda-Jane Keegan, The Sapling

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Storylines Notable Book Award

Awarded • 2023 • Storylines Notable Picture Book

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