Numero Uno

Flown over to Melbourne at great expense, (nah, he was just passing - ed) your Create Readers roving reporter was lucky to attend the unveiling of the Myers Christmas window display in Melbourne.

And what a lavish display. This year it’s based on the book, Uno’s Garden by popular Australian author, Graham Base.

Deceptively simple, Uno’s Garden tackles the topical issue of environmental sustainability - that delicate balance between preserving the natural environment and societal development. Younger readers though are more likely to follow the fortunes of Base’s cast of fantastical jungle plants and creatures that grace and graze their way through the book.

Admire the extraordinary foldout, spot the Snortlepig, count creatures and receive a lesson in sequential numbering; it’s here in Base’s spectacular garden of delights. And if the enthusiastic gasps and applause at the unveiling (more than one million visitors view the Myers display over the Christmas period) the book looks set to become as popular as Base’s other classics, Animalia and The Waterhole.