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  • Published: 24 June 2015
  • ISBN: 9780670078042
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $30.00

Mr Huff




Award-winning and much-loved author and illustrator Anna Walker gives us a gentle, poignant, affirming and wise picture book sure to delight all ages. Mr Huff is a story about the clouds and the sunshine in each of our lives.

Bill is having a bad day.
Mr Huff is following him around and making everything seem difficult.
Bill tries to get rid of him, but Mr Huff just gets bigger and bigger!
Then they both stop, and a surprising thing happens . . .

Winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year: Early Childhood, 2016

  • Published: 24 June 2015
  • ISBN: 9780670078042
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $30.00

About the author

Anna Walker

Anna Walker writes and illustrates children's books and is based in Melbourne. Crafted with pencil, ink and collage, Anna's illustrations are inspired by the everyday details of life and the amusing antics of her menagerie. Anna's picture book, Mr Huff, which she wrote and illustrated, won the 2016 CBCA Book of the Year for Early Childhood and was shortlisted in the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Together with Jane Godwin, Anna has also created many beautiful picture books, most recently Don't Forget. Anna's picture books as author-illustrator also include the highly acclaimed Florette, the delightful Lottie and Walter, and the tender and touching Hello Jimmy!

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Awards & recognition

CBCA Book of the Year Awards

Winner  •  2016  •  Early Childhood

Indie Book Awards

Longlisted  •  2016  •  Children's

Prime Minister's Literary Awards

Shortlisted  •  2016  •  Children's Fiction

REAL Children's Choice Awards

Shortlisted  •  2016  •  Picture Story Books