Ideas & Inspiration for The Art of Taxidermy
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Lottie collects dead creatures and lovingly cares for them, hoping to preserve them, to save them from disintegration. Her father understands—Lottie has a scientific mind, he thinks. Her aunt wants it to stop, and she goes to cruel lengths to make sure it does.
And her mother? Lottie’s mother died long ago. And Lottie is searching for a way to be close to her.
The Art of Taxidermy is a heartbreaking verse novel exploring love and death, grief and beauty, and the ways we try to make sense of it all.
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Awards & Honors
The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards Shortlist (2019)
The University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize Longlist for “Hot Metal, Cold Type” (2019)
Verandah Journal 34 Award Winner of the Matthew Rocca Poetry Award for “Eating Type” (2019)
ABDA Awards Winners Imogen Stubbs and Edith Rewa for Best Young Adult Cover (2019)
Inky Awards Gold Inky Longlist (2019)
CBCA Shortlist (2019)
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature (2019)
CBCA Notable Book (2019)
About the suggested projects
This YA fiction novel deals with love and death and the beauty of bringing something dead and loved back to life through artistry. Create faux taxidermy birds, rabbits or whatever you fancy. Write and illustrate a poem inspired by something that you’ve loved and lost.