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A Bit Lost: Languages / Awards

You can order it in the countries/languages below

Little Owl Lost in the USA /CAN            >>> here
Little Owl Lost in Australia                     >>> here
Little Owl Lost in NZ                              >>> here
A Bit Lost in UK/IRE                               >>> here or from local bookshop
Ihan Hukassa in Finland                         >>> here
엄마를 잠깐 잃어버렸어요 in KOREA   >>> here
Mama Kwijt in the Netherlands                >>> here
Un Peu Perdu in France                          >>> here
Kleine Eule Ganz Allein in Germany      >>> here
Un Poco Perdido in Spain                      >>> here
Um Tanto Perdida in Brazil coming soon >>> here
Ar Strae Beagán in Ireland (Gaeilge)      >>>here
Japanese coming soon

AWARDS

AOI Best of British Illustration Gold Prize 2010 (Childrens Book Category) UK
The Booktrust Best New Illustrators Award UK
Winner of the Bisto Childrens Book of the Year 2011 Ireland
Winner of the Eilis Dillion Best Debut Book of the Year 2011 Ireland
Winner of the Marrion Vannette Ridgway award for best debut picturebook USA
Winner of the Dutch Picturebook of the Year 2012 Netherlands
Winner of the Cambridgeshire Picturebook of the year 2011 UK
Long list for the UK Literary Association award 
Shortlisted for the British Book Design awards
Longlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway award 2012 
Winner Early Years Niagara Award CANADA
Nomination Prix des bébés lecteurs de Nanterre Baby Readers’ Prize 2012 FRANCE
Winner Prix Sorcières 2012 FRANCE
Waterstones Childrens Book Prize Nomination

The blog post about how i came up with the idea is here

Here are the first few pages...

(download)

 

The Little OWL FAIR TRADE TOY is available here
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Comments (5)

Aug 18, 2010
adore this book. glad to stumble on your blog and find that you are involved with fair trade issues. beautiful work for a beautiful cause. do hope you do more books!
Nov 20, 2010
Yetier said...
Stumbled upon this book while browsing random stuff and immediately had to look for more about the book. Looking forward to it getting released in German as well.
Nov 26, 2010
jamusreynolds said...
My daughter loves this book. We just got it from the library but I want to get her it for Christmas. When is the toy available?
Jun 09, 2011
Jyesssss said...
LOVE this book, couldnt stop laughing :) illustrations are amazing!
Jul 16, 2011
janeariffin said...
I work in a kindy in Malaysia and this book 'A Bit Lost' has been top of the charts for two months since i first started reading it to the children. They loooove it to bits and they have made
a diorama of the story...... thnx for an adorable tale ....love the colours used.....

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