The Letterbox Tree – Rebecca Lim and Kate Gordon
The Letterbox Tree
With sea levels rising, and the land deforested, over-mined and affected by bushfires and drought, Tasmania is increasingly marooned, and its people abandoned. Nyx’s father wants them to leave while they still can but, for Nyx, West Hobart is all she’s ever known, and where her mother is buried. She seeks solace in the single surviving tree near her home – an 80-foot pine that has defied all odds. Bea, too, finds solace in the tree, and facing a move to the mainland herself, leaves a despairing note, wedged into a hole in its trunk. Nyx finds the note, and writes back. But Nyx and Bea don’t realise how special their tree truly is.
About the author – Rebecca Lim
Rebecca Lim is a writer, illustrator and editor, and the author of over 20 books, including Tiger Daughter (a Kirkus, Amazon and Booklist Best Book, CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers and Victorian Premier’s Literary Award winner) and Two Sparrowhawks in a Lonely Sky (NSW Premier's History Award winner). Her work has been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, Queensland Literary Awards, ARA Historical Novel Prize and Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, among others. She is a co-founder of the Voices from the Intersection initiative and co-editor of Meet Me at the Intersection, a groundbreaking anthology of YA #OwnVoice memoir, poetry and fiction.
About the author – Kate Gordon
Kate Gordon grew up in a very bookish house, in a small town by the sea in Tasmania. After studying performing arts and realising she was a terrible actor, Kate decided to become a librarian. She never stopped writing and, in 2009, she applied for and won a Varuna Fellowship, which led to all sorts of lovely writer things happening. Kate's first book, Three Things About Daisy Blue, was published in 2010. Her most recent publications are the middle-grade novels in the Direleafe Hall series, and Aster’s Good, Right Things, which won the CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers.