One Careless Night

By: Christina Booth

Hardcover | 26 July 2019

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Shortlisted for 2020 Environment Award for Children’s Literature : Picture Fiction Category

In One Careless Night, award-winning picture book creator Christina Booth tells the hauntingly beautiful story of Australia's last thylacine (Tasmanian tiger).

Where the mist swallows mountains and winds whisper through ancient trees, a mother and her pup run wild and free. They hunt, but they are also hunted. Carted away. Sold for bounty. And then, one careless night … The last thylacine is gone.

The beautiful but heartbreaking story of Australia's last thylacine (Tasmanian tiger), which died in captivity.

Book Features:
  • Graphically illustrated and hauntingly beautiful by award-winning picture book creator Christina Booth.
  • Australia's last thylacine died after the zookeeper neglected to put the animals in their shelters for the night. This is an important and timely book that deals with humanity’s lack of care for the environment and our betrayal of our native animals.
  • This is also a tale of hope – that we have changed our thinking and no longer treat animals in this way.
About the Author-Illustrator

Author and illustrator Christina Booth works from her bush studio in Tasmania, Australia. Trained as a teacher and painter, she loves that she makes up stories and colours for a living. Christina started her literary career illustrating for great Australian authors such as Max Fatchen, Colin Thiele, Christobel Mattingley and Jackie French.

Many of Christina’s previous books are award-winning, including the Environment Award, CBCA Honour Book and CBCA Notables. Spirit (written by Cherri Ryan) was her first picture book with Black Dog Books.
Industry Reviews
This is a powerful and beautiful evocation of the last free months of a mother and baby thylacine in the Tasmanian forest...superb in text and illustrations and highly recommended for readers of any age * Magpies *

I was lucky enough to read this book before its release. I made the mistake, however, of reading it between panels at a writers conference. Halfway through the book, I was sobbing, mascara drizzling down my face - not a great look at a fancy event. But I was still so grateful for the privilege of being exposed to this wonder of a story.
This is an important book, a beautiful book, and a book that I hope will make all of us look to our forests; our mountains, and wonder. And hope. And vow to fight.

* Just Kids Lit *
The text is poetic but also spare. The illustrations are dramatic contrasting darkness and light to haunting effect. Together they tell the story of the last thylacine in a way that is both heartbreaking and achingly beautiful...Highly recommended for children aged 4 +. * CBCA: Reading Time *
This is a must-have addition to support any curriculum study that has sustainability and the plight of our planet's creatures as its focus. * The Bottom Shelf *
Highly recommended. The author's note at the end followed by the government advice about the bounty round off an emotionally stunning book, forcing readers to think more carefully at how easily things are lost forever. * ReadPlus *
brought tears to my eyes... This book belongs in every school as it will spark discussion and engender empathy. The careful discussions of a guiding teacher, parent or other caring adult will help children to negotiate the emotions they may feel reading this powerful story. * Kids' Book Review *

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