A sensitive story about coming to terms with the death of a friend. Brodie is always making people laugh. He wiggles his ears and yodels like a country singer and tells far-out jokes. He's a brilliant artist, too: he draws loads of planes and helicopters, because he wants to be a chopper pilot. Everyone at school knows that Brodie is ill, and when he's in hospital they all send him cards. But they never think he'll die. When he does, it's a shock and it hurts and hurts and hurts - and the hurt doesn't go away. It does get smaller, though, and while his friends don't stop missing him they know it means that Brodie is still alive in their hearts.
Author Biography
Joy Cowley is one of New Zealand's most celebrated authors. In 1992 she was awarded an OBE, and in 2005 was appointed a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, both in recognition of her services to children's literature. She has won multiple high-profile awards, from the prestigious Margaret Mahy Award to the national Book of the Year Award (three times) to, most recently (in 2010), the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Fiction. Joy has been married three times and has 13 grandchildren. Chris Mousdale was born in the UK in Liverpool, and now lives in New Zealand. He studied Fine Art in Canterbury and has worked as a freelance illustrator since 1986. Chris has illustrated over 2,000 editorial graphics, as well as book covers, posters and CD covers. He is also a designer and artist and has had a number of solo exhibitions of his paintings and constructions. Brodie is his first book.
