Gymnastica Fantastica! - Hardcover

by Briony Stewart (Author), Briony Stewart (Illustrator)

An exuberant picture book that encourages kids to bend, stretch, tumble, and flip!

"Quick! Come and see! Somthing fabulous, it's...me!"

Meet Gymnastica, a small person with big energy, as they bend and balance, bounce and roll, attempt a cartwheel and a spectacular trapeze flip-out finale. Written in playful rhyming text and with bright and energetic illustrations, this high-spirited picture book is sure to be an irresistible read aloud that inspires kids to embrace the tumbles that come with putting on a perfectly imperfect show.

Author Biography

Briony Stewart is an award-winning author and illustrator of children's books. In 2022 she won the Prime Minister's Literary Award in the category of Children's Fiction for her work with Sherryl Clark on the verse novel Mina and the Whole Wide World. She is the author and illustrator of the award-winning Kumiko and the Dragon series and We Love You, Magoo, which was a CBCA Early Childhood Honour Book for 2020. Briony lectures on children's literature at university and conducts talks and workshops with children across Australia. She loves live drawing challenges, daydreaming, and discussing dragons, bunnies, and how to tame lions.