Hazel and the Snails ’ — Paula Green

’ — Paula Green

‘This superbly illustrated book by writer

Celebrating the work and legacy of a great New Zealand architect

loving and layered

‘Aotearoa’s answer to Bill Bryson’ — David Slack

Hazel and the Snails ’ — Paula GreenA debut novel destined to become a classic Six year old Hazel tends her colony of shoebox snails while observing, with varying degrees of understanding, her fathers illness and final decline. Impending loss forms the heart of this story, but its charming and funny, too, with black and white illustrations by Giselle Clarkson. Richly rewarding and cleverly layered, adults will be as drawn to it as children. Nan Blanchards assured eye is a rare quality