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The Truck Cat
$24.95 inc GST $22.68 ex GST
The Truck Cat is a story about cats and humans, immigration and identity, and homes lost and found.
With illustrations by multi-award-winning artist Danny Snell and words by award-winning new voice Deborah Frenkel, The Truck Cat is the perfect book to inspire kindness and compassion in young children everywhere.
The Truck Cat by Deborah Frenkel and Danny Snell is the National Simultaneous Storytime title for 2025. Get ready to join in on the fun when NSS sweeps the country yet again on Wednesday 21 May 2025.
Product overview
The Australian Library and Information Association and Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing proudly present the National Simultaneous Storytime picture book for 2025. The Truck Cat is a story about cats and humans, immigration and identity, and homes lost and found.
Some cats are house cats. Some are apartment cats.
But Tinka is a truck cat. Tinka lives everywhere.
Along with his human, Yacoub, Tinka travels roads wide and narrow, near and distant. But no matter how much they travel, home feels very far away – for both of them.
Yacoub drives his truck to make a living, learning the landscape of a new country along the way, and longing for connection. When Tinka and Yacoub are unexpectedly separated, they are determined to find their way back to each other – and, in doing so, might find more than they expected …
LIA and Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing are thrilled to announce that The Truck Cat by Deborah Frenkel and Danny Snell is the NSS title for 2025. Get ready to join in on the fun when NSS sweeps the country yet again on Wednesday 21 May 2025. Head to www.alia.org.au/nss for more information.
About the Author
Deborah Frenkel is a writer of books, billboards, and the words on the back of cereal boxes, which to date is probably her most widely read work (and certainly the most crunchy). Her picture books include the award-winning Naturopolis (2022) and The Sydney Harbour Fairy (2023). She’s based on Bunurong land, in Melbourne’s Inner West, but spends most of the time squinting at horizons in her imagination.
About the Illustrator
As a child Danny ÂSnell was a reluctant reader, so it was pictures rather than words that drew him to the wonder of books. Danny went on to study graphic design and illustration at the University of South Australia and he now works as a picture book illustrator and author. His books have won a number of awards including the CBCA Eve Pownall Award, the Environment Award for Children’s Literature, and the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award.
