Lucky Lion Wins!

Best Picture Book, NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2022.

Little by little, the cake disappears, but where does it go?

Lion Guards the Cake is a sweetly irresistible story that invites readers to be both witness and accomplice to Lion’s furtive adventures and faux heroism as he upends the notion of duty. Its faultless, inventive rhyme, complemented by rich, silhouetted illustrations, engages the reader with effortless ease and a twinkle in its eye. This is confident storytelling of the highest calibre — a joyful read-out-loud which also rewards a more intimate and leisurely reading.

NZCYA Judges, August 2022