April's Garden (KPMG award) (YOTO Carnegie Award)

**Shortlisted for the KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards 2024**

**Nominated for the YOTO Carnegie Medal for Illustration 2024**

April and her mother have been housed in temporary accommodation. Promised a brighter future by her mother, April finds her life there to be filled with things that are old, broken and impersonal. She longs for her own things and for some beauty in her life but experiences only frustration and disappointment until one day she plants some seeds…