Eliza Vanda's Button Box: CBCA Notable Book 2022
Emily Rodda
Eliza Vanda’s Button Box: CBCA Notable Book 2022
Emily Rodda
From the author of the award-winning His Name was Walter comes another magical mystery story that will delight Emily Rodda fans.
Buttons three, attend to me!
Take me where I want to be!
No one saw Eliza Vanda arrive in Tidgy Bay that rainy winter afternoon. The sign advertising ‘Cabins for Rent’ was almost hidden by a pile of builder’s rubble, but Eliza Vanda didn’t seem at all put out by the mess.
‘This is a nice little pocket,’ she said. ‘It should suit us very well.’
Life hasn’t been much fun for Milly Dynes lately. There seem to be problems everywhere she looks. She’s always loved her home in Tidgy Bay, but at the moment she wishes she was somewhere -anywhere - else.
Then Eliza Vanda turns up - and magic comes with her …
A Children’s Book Council of Australia Notable Book in 2022, this sparkling new fantasy adventure from Emily Rodda is a book to be cherished.
AWARDS FOR HIS NAME WAS WALTER:
Winner - 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards (Children’s Literature)
Winner - 2019 Australian Book Design Awards (Children’s Fiction Book)
Winner - 2019 CBCA Book of the Year Awards (Younger Readers)
Shortlisted - 2019 Davitt Awards (Children’s)
Shortlisted - 2019 QLD Literary Awards (Griffith University Children’s Book Award)
Shortlisted - 2018 Aurealis Awards (Best Young Adult Novel)
PRAISE FOR HIS NAME WAS WALTER:
‘Another magnificent book from Emily Rodda’ - Readings
‘guaranteed to capture the imaginations of 8+ mystery lovers’ - Better Reading
Review
Dani Solomon
Milly is feeling like she’s in a bit of an in-between spot, stuck on the way to somewhere she’s not sure she wants to be. She’s about to finish primary school and she’s not quite ready for high school; and although she’s excited for her baby sister to come home and take her old room she’s not so sure she’s ready to give it up. So when Eliza Vanda, a soft, eccentric seamstress, comes to stay at her father’s seaside cabin, she’s just the distraction Milly needs. After all, how can you possibly be worried about a new bedroom when you suddenly find yourself on an errand in a magical world with beautiful clockwork birds, unicorns, and princes who have been turned into frogs?
Eliza Vanda’s Button Box is a gentle adventure; while it doesn’t have huge life-or-death stakes, it is the kind of story that feeds your imagination a feast and leaves you hungry for more. Fantastic for ages 7+.
Dani Solomon is the assistant manager at Readings Kids.
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