Leaving No Footprints

by Elaine Forrestal

Then Kip gets angry too. ‘You just don’t know what it’s like.'’What?'Our eyes blaze at each other. He looks away. ‘I have to watch my back, that’s all,’ he says, more gently.Henny can’t work Kip out. Where is his family? Where does he live? Why do waves of sadness and anger some times over take him?The answers to these questions only come when the two friends’ boat is trapped in a dark storm. In the urgent battle to survive, the limits of friendship and trust will be stretched to breaking point.The holiday setting, the sense of freedom that the two children enjoy … the adventures they have and the general feeling that they can work … Julie Long — Reading Time“You’ll have to read this exciting book for yourself and make up your own mind about what happens to Kip in the end.” - The West Australian Ed Magazine“Another sensitive and compassionate story about children dealing with difficult issues in their daily lives” … Dani Colvin The Sunday Tasmanian“The author is skilful at developing the different but complimentary characters of Kip and Henny … The smell and sounds of the sea, the sand.” … Anne Hanzl — Magpies

120 pages, Paperback

First published September 16, 2011

About the author

Elaine Forrestal is a full-time writer who lives and works in Scarborough, Western Australia. She grew up in the Wheatbelt but now travels all over the world, and has spoken at festivals and presented writing workshops in Australia, Singapore, France, Italy, and Ireland. Elaine has had novels, picture books, magazine articles and short stories published in Australia, the USA and the UK. Her novel, Someone Like Me, which won the CBCA Book of the Year Award, the WAYRBA Hoffman Award and was commended for the NASAN Book and Software Awards in the UK, has been translated into Slovenian and Italian. She has also written for children’s television. Of her 17 published fiction titles, 14 have been shortlisted for, or won, major awards.

Reviews

[Sarah Thornton · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good, short and wistful.
The dog survives.

[Vardabhatt · Rating 1 out of 5]

Hard