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A Garden of Lilies: Improving Tales for Young Minds (From the World of Stella Montgomery)
Wakestone Hall (Stella Montgomery, #3)
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In Wormwood Mire, award-winning author Judith Rossell introduced us to the lessons of fictitious Victorian writer Prudence A Goodchild ... Now the book comes to life as the perfect gift for any Stella Montgomery fan.


Children,listen and take heed,
As this little book you read.
All your evil ways amend,
Or you will meet a dreadful end.

From the bestselling world of Stella Montgomery comes an illustrated alphabet of startling cautionary tales for the discerning young reader.

Filled with uncommon facts for the novice conversationalist, prudent advice for house and garden, and rigorous lessons in etiquette and manners, A Garden of Lilies will transform any wayward child into the very picture of Victorian decorum and grace.


PRAISE FOR A GARDEN OF LILIES

'From the black hardcover with the title debossed in gold, surrounded by a bouquet of lilies to the marbled endpapers and detailed sketches of Victorian life, this is a visual delight' -- ReadPlus.com


ACCLAIM FOR WITHERING-BY-SEA AND WORMWOOD MIRE

Indie Awards -- Winner 2015, Shortlisted 2017
Australian Book Industry Awards -- Winner 2015, Shortlisted 2017
CBCA Awards -- Honour Book 2015, Notable Book 2017
Davitt Awards -- Winner 2015, Shortlisted 2017
Prime Minister's Literary Awards -- Shortlisted 2015
ABA Booksellers' Choice Awards -- Shortlisted 2017
Australian Book Design Awards -- Shortlisted 2017
Aurealis Awards -- Shortlisted 2015

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Release dateOct 12, 2017
A Garden of Lilies: Improving Tales for Young Minds (From the World of Stella Montgomery)
Wakestone Hall (Stella Montgomery, #3)

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  • Wakestone Hall (Stella Montgomery, #3)

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    Wakestone Hall (Stella Montgomery, #3)
    Wakestone Hall (Stella Montgomery, #3)

    THE MAGICAL CONCLUSION TO STELLA MONTGOMERY'S AWARD-WINNING STORY 'the perfect conclusion to a wonderfully quirky Victorian fantasy series' -- Pages & Pages Stella Montgomery is in disgrace. The Aunts have sent her to Wakestone Hall, a grim boarding school where the disobedient are tamed and the wilful are made meek. But when a friend disappears, Stella is determined to find her -- no matter the danger ... Soon Stella is thrown deeper into the mysteries of Wakestone ... and her own past. Will Stella save her friend in time? And will she discover -- at long last -- where she truly belongs? Bestselling writer-illustrator Judith Rossell returns with the breathtaking final adventure in this award-winning series. Winner of the 2019 Davitt Award for Best Children's Crime Novel. SERIES AWARDS Withering-by-Sea (Book 1) Winner -- 2015 Indie Awards, Book of the Year: Children's & YA Winner -- 2015 Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year: Older Children Winner -- 2015 Davitt Awards Honour Book -- 2015 Children's Book Council of Australia Awards Shortlisted -- 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Awards Shortlisted -- 2014 Aurealis Awards Shortlisted -- 2017 Australian Book Design Awards Wormwood Mire (Book 2) Winner -- 2017 Davitt Awards Shortlisted -- 2017 Indie Awards, Book of the Year: Children's & YA Shortlisted -- 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year: Older Children Shortlisted -- 2017 ABA Booksellers' Choice Award Shortlisted -- 2017 Australian Book Design Awards Notable Book -- 2017 Children's Book Council of Australia Awards

  • A Garden of Lilies: Improving Tales for Young Minds (From the World of Stella Montgomery)

    A Garden of Lilies: Improving Tales for Young Minds (From the World of Stella Montgomery)
    A Garden of Lilies: Improving Tales for Young Minds (From the World of Stella Montgomery)

    In Wormwood Mire, award-winning author Judith Rossell introduced us to the lessons of fictitious Victorian writer Prudence A Goodchild ... Now the book comes to life as the perfect gift for any Stella Montgomery fan. Children,listen and take heed, As this little book you read. All your evil ways amend, Or you will meet a dreadful end. From the bestselling world of Stella Montgomery comes an illustrated alphabet of startling cautionary tales for the discerning young reader. Filled with uncommon facts for the novice conversationalist, prudent advice for house and garden, and rigorous lessons in etiquette and manners, A Garden of Lilies will transform any wayward child into the very picture of Victorian decorum and grace. PRAISE FOR A GARDEN OF LILIES 'From the black hardcover with the title debossed in gold, surrounded by a bouquet of lilies to the marbled endpapers and detailed sketches of Victorian life, this is a visual delight' -- ReadPlus.com ACCLAIM FOR WITHERING-BY-SEA AND WORMWOOD MIRE Indie Awards -- Winner 2015, Shortlisted 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards -- Winner 2015, Shortlisted 2017 CBCA Awards -- Honour Book 2015, Notable Book 2017 Davitt Awards -- Winner 2015, Shortlisted 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Awards -- Shortlisted 2015 ABA Booksellers' Choice Awards -- Shortlisted 2017 Australian Book Design Awards -- Shortlisted 2017 Aurealis Awards -- Shortlisted 2015

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Judith Rossell

Judith Rossell is the multi-award-winning author-illustrator of the bestselling Stella Montgomery series (Withering-by-Sea, Wormwood Mire, Wakestone Hall and A Garden of Lilies: Improving Tales for Young Minds). Before beginning her career in children's books, Judith worked as a government scientist (not a mad scientist, a normal kind of scientist) and also for a cotton-spinning company (that made threads for T-shirts and denim jeans and mops and teabag strings). Judith has written thirteen books and illustrated more than eighty. Her work has been published in the US and UK, and translated into more than twenty languages. Judith lives in Melbourne, Australia with a cat the size of a walrus. www.judithrossell.com

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