A Baker's Dozen is a mouth-watering feast of stories cooked up by the highly acclaimed author, Nigel Gray, and sumptuously decorated by the celebrated artist, Cedric Baxter. Thirteen stories in one book to be savoured by children from five to twelve years of age. Bedtime treats for younger ones, while older kids will enjoy tucking into it for themselves. Charming, thought-provoking and bubbling over with laughs. Lip-smackingly good.

“Exciting, inspiring, tender, loving, charming, sensitive, extraordinary, thought-provoking, heart-warming, lyrical, subtle, funny, innovative, gentle, quirky, fantastic, witty, clever, crazy, delightful, original, exuberant, impeccable… "

This is how reviewers and experts have described previous children's books by Nigel Gray.

One critic wrote: Gray writes superbly. His choice of words, his ability to describe a scene or situation simply yet meaningfully and his gentle, humorous way of exploring significant themes mark him as an outstanding writer.

Others said: Gray understands that children are capable of insight and compassion, even into complex issues; possibilities for follow-up in the classroom seem endless; layers of meaning can be enjoyed at each level; the whole book jumps with joy; it is full of special insights and a wicked sense of fun; he has a wonderful line in stories from the child's viewpoint; this is a book to be treasured.”

Everything of Nigel Gray’s I have read is humane, wise and linguistically melodic.
Kurt Vonnegut

About the Author

Nigel Gray is an internationally-acclaimed Irish-born West Australian author. Some sixty of his more than seventy books have been for children. His work has been published in twenty-six countries and twenty-four languages.

His books have won awards and honours in Holland, Germany, France, the UK, the USA and Australia. He is a past winner of the Dickens' Fellowship Award, and the Irish Post Award for literature. He has taught numerous writing workshops in schools, colleges, universi ties, libraries, arts centres, writer's centres, centres for the unemployed, and prisons.

Nigel lives with wife, Yasmin, in Kalamunda, a small town in the hills outside Perth, the capital of Western Australia.

Read more about Nigel here.

Read more about Nigel's next book to be published by Fontaine Press, 'Strangers' here.

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