Bob

• A charming middle-grade novel about friendship and the power of imagination, told in alternating chapters by Rebecca Stead, the Newbery Medal winning author of When You Reach Me, and Wendy Mass, New York Times bestselling author of The Candymakers • Eleven-year-old Livy lives in America and can't remember much about the last time she visited her grandmother in Australia five years ago. One day, Livy finds a small creature dressed in a chicken suit waiting impatiently in the wardrobe for her return. The two soon become fast friends and set off to find out who exactly Bob is, why Livy can't remember him, where he came from and how to get him back home • A funny and moving story for young readers set in a small Australian town against the backdrop of bush life and the hardships of drought • The inspiration for Bob came to Rebecca during her 2011 book tour of Australia and she wrote the first chapter on the flight home • Illustrated throughout by Brooklyn-based author and illustrator Nicholas Gannon