Adventure and Imagination: Meet the Characters from Willa and Woof by Jacqueline Harvey

Adventure and Imagination: Meet the Characters from Willa and Woof by Jacqueline Harvey

From the bestselling author of Alice-Miranda comes this humorous and heartfelt series about eight-year-old Willa and her best four-legged friend, Woof! Meet Willa and her three best friends:

Willa

Eight-year-old Willa Tait has a vivid imagination, a head full of ideas and a strong desire to do the right thing – all of which often lands her in trouble of her own (accidental!) making. With the help of Woof, Tae and Frank, Willa’s usually able to set things right again.

Woof

Woof is Willa’s best four-legged friend. His real name is Wilfred, but when Willa was little she couldn’t quite wrap her tongue around that, so ‘Wilfred’ became ‘Wilf’ and ‘Wilf’ became ‘Woof’ and it stuck.

Tae

Tae Jin Miller is Willa’s best same-age friend. He lives across the road. His name means ‘person of greatness’ in Korean, so Tae spends a lot of time trying to figure out what kind of person of greatness he is going to be.

Frank

Francis Pickles is Willa’s best old-age friend. He lives in a villa at Sunset Views Retirement Village. There’s a gate in Willa’s side fence that leads straight into Frank’s yard, so it’s easy for Willa to pop over and visit!

Read an extract from Willa and Woof here…

Buy a copy of Willa and Woof here.

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        Publisher details

        Willa and Woof #1: Mimi is Missing
        Author
        Jacqueline Harvey
        Publisher
        Penguin
        Genre
        Children’s Fiction
        Released
        05 July, 2022
        ISBN
        9781761043314

        Synopsis

        Recommended for ages 6+.

        Adventure, imagination and loads of fun.

        From the bestselling author of Alice-Miranda comes this humorous and heartfelt series about eight-year-old Willa and her best four-legged friend, Woof!

        Willa’s in trouble. Mimi – the famous racing pigeon owned by Frank, her neighbour and best old-aged friend – is missing. And Willa is pretty sure she’s the one who left the cage door open . . .

        She’ll need her most creative ideas (along with the help of Tae, her best same-age friend, and her trusty sidekick Woof, the albino Irish Wolfhound) to track Mimi down before Frank finds out!

        Can Willa find Mimi before it’s too late?
        Jacqueline Harvey
        About the author

        Jacqueline Harvey

        Jacqueline Harvey worked in schools for many years but has had a passion for storytelling since she was a child. She is the author of the popular Alice-Miranda, Clementine Rose and Kensy and Max series, which have sold over one million copies in Australia alone. Her books have received numerous short-listings and awards while her picture book, The Sound of the Sea, was a CBCA Honour Book. Jacqueline speaks to thousands of young people at schools and festivals around the world, and says the characters in her books are often made up of the best bits of children she’s met over the years. While she is not a twin, like Kensy and Max she does have excellent powers of observation and has always thought she’d make a great spy. Jacqueline lives in Sydney and is currently working on more Kensy and Max adventures, and some exciting new projects too. 

        Books by Jacqueline Harvey

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