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'“Oh, let’s do it!” say Kitty and Katy and Mum when a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle mysteriously arrives in the post. “I have time on my hands,” agrees Dad. Starting in winter with the edges, by autumn they’re almost done, only to discover that one piece is missing. Mum is sure that it must have accidentally gone out with the rubbish, so the Kellys pile into the car to comb through the local tip (“shouldn’t take long”). There they uncover forgotten letters, train tickets, discarded newspapers, and old photos yellow with age, but finding the missing piece is starting to seem like wishful thinking. “Let’s wish, then,” says Katy. As in all of Bob Graham’s work, the beauty here is in the details, with visual perspectives that offer a bird’s-eye view or take us underfoot, wordless sequences letting us in on a secret. Is it sheer luck – or perhaps the power of hope – that creates an ending to the story?'
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Ellis Reviews Jigsaw : Mystery in the Mail by Bob Graham.
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Horn Book Magazine , September/October vol. 98 no. 5 2022; (p. 59-60)
— Review of Jigsaw : A Puzzle in the Post 2022 single work picture book
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Ellis Reviews Jigsaw : Mystery in the Mail by Bob Graham.
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Horn Book Magazine , September/October vol. 98 no. 5 2022; (p. 59-60)
— Review of Jigsaw : A Puzzle in the Post 2022 single work picture book
Awards
- 2023 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Griffith University Children’s Book Award
- 2023 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Early Childhood
- 2023 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Picture Book
- 2023 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Early Childhood