Variety the children’s charity helps children with special needs, illness and disadvantage.
Variety also supports the families
Variety provides $1 million per month to kids’ hospitals, kids & families.
‘Gracie and Josh’ has partnered with VARIETY with the power of story.
I am very proud of this.
Launches are:-
9.45 am 1st March Children’s Bookshop 8 Hannah St Beecroft Sydney
1 p.m. 9th March Richmond Library415 Church St Richmond.
Jenny Mounfield reviews:-
‘My name is Gracie. Today, I’m a squiggly black spider.
My brother Josh helps me make my spider legs. They look like fat sausages.
Josh gives me his wooly black beanie. His favourite one has green stripes.’
Josh is going to be a famous movie-maker. Dressed in her spider costume, Gracie is starring in her brother’s first film. The only thing to mar this perfect picture of childhood is Josh’s cancer.
It isn’t often—if ever—that a picture book has the power to bring a lump to my throat. This one did it for me. Endorsed by Variety the children’s charity, Gracie and Josh is not a story about fighting a life-threatening disease; it’s a story about life and living—and milking every drop from every minute we have been given. This is a profound lesson for us all. Sadly, the world is filled with children like Gracie and Josh. Every one of them is undoubtedly a hero.
Gracie and Josh by Susanne Gervay & Serena Geddes
Ford Street Publishing; PB—5+ Price: AUD HC $26.95 PB $16.95
ISBN: HC 9781921665844 PB 9781921665851
Reviewer: Jenny Mounfield
My daughter inspired the character Gracie Spider – here she is in her spider dress-up.
www.variety.org.au
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