Hazel and the Snails Bill Sutch and Shirley Smith

Bill Sutch and Shirley Smith were two of New Zealand’s most significant twentieth-century figures: Sutch as an economist

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Hazel and the Snails Bill Sutch and Shirley SmithA debut novel destined to become a classic Six year old Hazel tends her colony of shoebox snails while observing, with varying degrees of understanding, her fathers illness and final decline. Impending loss forms the heart of this story, but its charming and funny, too, with black and white illustrations by Giselle Clarkson. Richly rewarding and cleverly layered, adults will be as drawn to it as children. Nan Blanchards assured eye is a rare quality