Hattie is a street-smart country girl in her first year of school. She lives just outside of nowhere, right next to no one at all. Luckily she's starting school and that brings new adventures. Hattie gets her first swimming badge, falls madly in love with a hermit crab and meets a best friend. Sometimes things go wrong-like when the hairdresser cuts her hair into stumps just in time for school photos. And while Hattie tries her best, it's not always easy to be well behaved... Hattie is perfect for newly independent readers from Frida Nilsson, whose award-winning The Ice Sea Pirates was an international bestseller.

"Frida Nilsson is an author to watch: she is original, intelligent and combines substance with strong plot" Julia Marshall, Publisher

About the Author
Frida Nilsson is a leading Swedish children's writer whose numerous shortlistings and prizes include the August Prize, German Youth Literature Prize, Astrid Lindgren Prize. Stina Wirsen is one of Sweden's most popular and prolific children's book illustrators. She has illustrated and written numerous books of different genres that have been published all over the world and dramatized on stage and TV.

Reviews
imbued with colour and a very Swedish feel ... an enjoyable and enlightening experience * Magpies * "[Hattie's] adventures made for an entertaining read" * CBCA: Reading Time *



Book Information
ISBN 9781776572717
Author Frida Nilsson
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Gecko Press
Publisher Gecko Press
Weight(grams) 289g