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Hilary Bell

Hilary Bell met Antonia Pesenti in Paris over 20 years ago and have been friends ever since. Hilary is an award-winning playwright. Their friendship turned into a collaboration when they created the bestselling Alphabetical Sydney and, later, Numerical Street. Summer Time is their tribute to the places and rituals of an Australian summer and involved testing waterslides and tasting Neapolitan ice cream for the first time in yonks.

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Hilary Bell, Antonia Pesenti

LONGLISTED for the 2020 ABIA Small Publisher's Children's Book of the Year

Alphabetical Sydney

Hilary Bell, Antonia Pesenti

This is our Sydney, the brightest and best of it, North to the south to the east and the west of it. Bats and cicadas, lawn bowls and the zoo, This is our town. Let us share it with you.

Numerical Street

Hilary Bell, Antonia Pesenti

Age range 3 to 8 Count as you walk up Numerical Street. Every page has a numerical treat. Get your pants altered, get your keys cut, Open the book before the shops shut.

The Marvellous Funambulist of Middle Harbour and Other Sydney Firsts

Hilary Bell, illustrated by Matthew Martin

Age range 6–9 years This is a story of Sydney In order of who did what first: The incidents, places and people, All illustrated and versed.

9781742237763

Alphabetical Sydney: 10th anniversary edition

Antonia Pesenti, Hilary Bell

Alphabetical Sydney turns ten!