Seree’s Story

An uplifting and thought-provoking tale about elephant conservation.

When they came, the herd scattered in fright, their trumpeting calls shattering the morning. Seree and her mother were cornered.

Life in the jungle was good for young Seree and her mother until the day poachers come. Separated from her mother and the life she knows, Seree is taken to work in a circus. Forced to perform every day and spend each night in chains, Seree longs to be with the herd and reunited with her mother. Will she ever be free?

A poignant story by an active elephant conservationist that puts the spotlight on animal welfare.

• Shortlisted, 2023 ACT Notable Book Awards

About the Author

Irma Gold is an award-winning writer and editor. Her debut novel, The Breaking, was critically acclaimed and won a Canberra Critics Circle Award. Her short stories have been widely published in anthologies and journals like Meanjin, Island, Westerly and Going Down Swinging, and her acclaimed collection of short fiction is Two Steps Forward. Irma is also the author of five children’s books. Megumi and the Bear was her first title with Walker Books Australia. Irma is Ambassador for the ACT Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge and for Thailand’s Save Elephant Foundation.

About the Illustrator

Wayne Harris is an award-winning illustrator and designer. He won the APA Best Designed Picture Book of the Year Award for A Bit of Company by Margaret Wild and for Gordon’s Got a Snookie by Lisa Shanahan. He was short-listed in the 1995 NSW Premier’s Award for writing Judy and the Volcano, the same year Going Home was named an American Library Association Notable Children’s Book. He teaches design and illustration. He has most recently illustrated Bird to Bird, written by Claire Saxby, due to be published in March 2018 by Walker Books.