A Guide to Rocks

Lately, things have been getting Charlie down. It’s like he’s got a big rock that just won’t go away. He talks to Dad about it, and Dad brings out a dusty old book with a lot of tough rules. The first rule is you don’t talk about rocks (feelings). But the rules make things worse – Charlie’s ‘rock’ gets bigger, and everything feels dark and scary. They need some new rules – fast.

Author Biography

Sacha and Josh have collaborated previously on four picture books: Keys/Nga Ki, The Marble Maker/Te Kaihanga Mapere, The Bomb/Te Pohu and Dazzlehands/Ringakoreko. Keys was a finalist in the picture book category and Nga Ki was winner of the Maori Language Award of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2015. Nga Ki also won Te Tohu Taurapa Award in the LIANZA Children’s Book Awards 2015 and was selected for the IBBY Honour List in 2016. Te Kaihanga Mapere won Te Kura Pounamu award of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2017. The Bomb was the supreme winner, the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year, at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, 2019, where it also won the Picture Book Award. It won the Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book, PANZ Book Design Awards, in 2019, and it won the Storylines Notable Book Award, Picture Book, 2019.