The Tractor Has a Wobbly Wheel - Softcover

Tim Saunders

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1991006926 ISBN 13: 9781991006929

Publisher: A&U Children, 2025

Synopsis

Tim Saunders has written an absolute cracker of a story in The tractor has a wobbly wheel, a strong, fun picture book set on a farm.

Animals run this farm, and when their tractor keeps breaking down, they need to find inventive solutions.

The story rhymes, it has repetition, it bounces along: all the things young children love. And it has a tractor!

Carla Martell's illustrations are perfect for the story, taking the humour to another level and adding unexpected extra treats to keep young minds busy and delighted.

About this title

About the Author

Tim Saunders farms sheep and beef near Palmerston North. He has written two adult non-fiction titles This Farming Life and Under a Big Sky. He was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2021 for his story Carved; the only New Zealander to be shortlisted for this prestigious prize that year. He has had poetry and short stories published in Headland, Best Small Fictions, takahe, Landfall, Poetry NZ Yearbook, Broadsheet, RNZ and Flash Frontier. He won the 2018 MindFood Magazine Short Story Competition. He was joint winner of the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize in 2023. He performs poetry around the Manawatu and beyond.

Carla Martell majored in graphic design, illustration and animation at Wellington Polytechnic's School of Design (now Massey) followed by post-graduate study in animation at Melbourne's Swinburne Institute of Technology. She worked in the animation industry in Australia and the UK, and later completed a post-graduate Diploma in Multimedia Studies at Auckland University of Technology, specialising in moving image and multimedia production. In 2020 she illustrated her first children's book, Tulip & Doug (by Emma Wood, published by Scholastic NZ), and is currently working on her eleventh book. Her recent collaboration with author Juliette MacIver, Duck Goes Meow, won Best Picture Book in the 2023 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Carla currently lives in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland with her family and two silly cats.

Edition details

• Publisher: A&U Children
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1991006926
• ISBN 13: 9781991006929
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Carla Martell
• Number of pages: 24