The Clever Friend

Ginger Green, Play Date Queen #6

by Kim Kane, Jon Davis (Illustrator)

Ginger Green is BRIMMING with excitement, BURSTING to dance and BUSTING to play with her friends. But will she ever have a drama-free play date? There’s no such thing, but don’t worry because Ginger Green is the Play Date Queen!

So many things can go wrong on a play date. Isla won’t share? Maisy is naughty? Edgar doesn’t do dress-ups? Don't worry—stick with Ginger and you’ll have a ball!

Ginger is playing with Martha today. But what happens when Martha is too clever for Ginger?

64 pages, Paperback

Published June 1, 2016

About the author

Kim Kane was born in London in a bed bequeathed by Wordsworth to . . . ‘a writer, a painter or a poet.’ Despite this auspicious beginning, she went on to practise law.

Kim's picture book Family Forest was shortlisted for the 2011 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Awards. The Vegetable Ark was a 2011 CBCA Notable Book in two categories. Kim's first novel, Pip: the story of Olive, won the 2008 Barbara Ramsden Award and was shortlisted for the 2009 Australian Book Industry Awards and the Speech Pathology Australian awards.

Kim lives with her family in Melbourne. She writes whenever and wherever she can.