The Sydney Harbour Fairy

An ode to Sydney Harbour, grandmothers, and ferries.

Nanna is taking Charlie for a Girls’ Day Out. They’ll have high tea, watch the ballet, smell flowers and visit the Sydney Harbour Fairy.

Charlie does not like the sound of a Girls’ Day Out. And she especially hates fairies.

But the Harbour Fairy isn’t what Charlie expected, and her Girls’ Day Out with Nanna just got so much better.

A sparkling ode to imagination, grandmothers and finding magic in unlikely places.

About the Author

Deborah is a Sydney-born, Melbourne-based writer who lives in an extremely messy but happy house full of books and half-painted walls. When she’s not writing for kids, she’s usually copywriting for TV commercials, billboards, and the labels of shampoo bottles. If she wasn’t a writer, she’d probably be an engineer, having spent her childhood (and some of her adulthood) making machines out of toilet rolls and string. Fairies and ferries are equally magical to her.

About the Illustrator

Cate James is an illustrator, artist and author based in the beautiful Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia. She moved here from Edinburgh, Scotland in 2015 and loves the sunshine. She has been working as a full-time freelance illustrator since 2010, and has a background in printmaking. Cate works mostly in children’s publishing on picture books and illustrated texts.