Illustrator: Jess Butterworth
Genres: Children’s
Shortlisted for: Our Best Book Award in Leicester 2025; Hull James Reckitt Book Award 2024; Sheffield Book Award 2024; Portsmouth Book Award 2024. Chosen for Booktrust's BookBuzz.
The Last Bear meets The Life of Pi in this beautifully-written survival story set on a Cambodian island, following a ship-wrecked girl named Lark, and a baby gibbon who becomes her companion. Together, they must evade poachers and find their way home.
‘If you’re reading this, hopefully you’ve come to rescue me. My name is Lark Taylor, and I’ve been shipwrecked on an island. The last mainland I was on was Cambodia, miles and miles away from home…’
When Lark’s mum takes her family with her on a research trip to Cambodia, Lark never expects that she’ll end up stranded on a deserted island, with no one but a baby gibbon for company. But that’s exactly what happens.
Lost and with no idea how to survive in the jungle, Lark must learn the ways of the wild from the gibbon.
And in return, try to help the gibbon find her way home …
Illustrator: Jess Butterworth
Genres: Children’s
Shortlisted for: Our Best Book Award in Leicester 2025; Hull James Reckitt Book Award 2024; Sheffield Book Award 2024; Portsmouth Book Award 2024. Chosen for Booktrust's BookBuzz.
The Last Bear meets The Life of Pi in this beautifully-written survival story set on a Cambodian island, following a ship-wrecked girl named Lark, and a baby gibbon who becomes her companion. Together, they must evade poachers and find their way home.
‘If you’re reading this, hopefully you’ve come to rescue me. My name is Lark Taylor, and I’ve been shipwrecked on an island. The last mainland I was on was Cambodia, miles and miles away from home…’
When Lark’s mum takes her family with her on a research trip to Cambodia, Lark never expects that she’ll end up stranded on a deserted island, with no one but a baby gibbon for company. But that’s exactly what happens.
Lost and with no idea how to survive in the jungle, Lark must learn the ways of the wild from the gibbon.
And in return, try to help the gibbon find her way home …
Hachette Children’s
April 13th, 2023
