A stunning new package and branding for the incomparable, multi-award-winning, and Laureate na nÓg, Sarah Crossan. Apple and Rain was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2015.
Sarah Crossan has lived in Dublin, London and New York, and now lives in Hertfordshire. She graduated with a degree in philosophy and literature before training as an English and drama teacher at the University of Cambridge. Sarah Crossan won the 2016 CILIP Medal, the YA Book Prize, the CBI Book of the Year Award and many other prizes for her novel One. Sarah is the current Laureate na nÓg. sarahcrossan.com @SarahCrossan
This poignant, realistic tale is about learning to love and taking
responsibility, and how poems can tell the truth …
*Sunday Times Book of the Week*
A story of the redeeming power of love. It's beautifully written
and it made me cry but it also made me laugh
*The Bookbag*
Poignant, powerful, just perfect
*Cathy Cassidy on THE WEIGHT OF WATER*
Succinct, with a gentle lyricism, the poems are telling about
immigration, prejudice, self-delusion, families and first love, on
the way to a life-changing conclusion
*The Sunday Times - Children's Books of the Week on THE WEIGHT OF
WATER*
Exquistely and touchingly written
*Irish Times on THE WEIGHT OF WATER*
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