The Whale in the Garden

Sabine Rufener
The Whale in the Garden

The garden where this story is set is large and wild. It’s a very old garden. Huge trees and strange flowers grow here. There are tiny beetles and large spiders, wild cats and cheeky birds too. In the middle of the garden stands a small, old house, and in this house live Lille and her grandma.

Then, one morning, Lille finds a giant whale lying there. On Lille’s bike, of all places! He’s in a bad mood too.

In Sabine Rufener’s debut children’s book, the girl and the whale gradually find out how to live together. Until the whale’s yearning for the sea gets greater while it gets ever smaller . . .

• Selected for the Braw Amazing Bookshelf 2022
• nominated for Serafina 2021

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