About this item
"A beautiful, gentle, rhyming exploration of grief and mourning." - Joe Coelho, UK Children's Laureate. The Hare-Shaped Hole is a beautiful, touching, and poignant picture book which gently explores themes of grief and loss.. Hertle and Bertle were always a pair, though
About the Author
Award-winning author John Dougherty was born in Larne, Northern Ireland. He studied psychology at university and then tried his hand at a number of jobs including YMCA hostel worker, factory machine operator, and unsuccessful singer-songwriter, before becoming a primary school teacher (elementary school teacher if you're in the United States, which he wasn't) .Whilst John was teaching, his interest in children's literature was reawakened and he soon began writing stories and pestering publishers with them. After the publication of Zeus on the Loose (2004) he left teaching and took up writing full-time, only with more tea breaks than most full-time jobs.His books have won or been shortlisted for a number of prestigious awards (and chosen as Books of the Year by some very important newspapers) , but, more importantly, they make children giggle.
