Multi-award winning Australian author Libby Hathorn's latest book.
What will happen when Zahara reaches the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and tries to see the Queen? With a cart full of plants and the straggly weed her father calls The Flower of Heaven, she and her mother and grandmother pass through the Ishtar Gates on the way to the marvelLous Hanging Gardens, built by King Nebuchadnezzar for his Queen, Amyritis. But a guard refuses entry for Zahara and laughs at the Flower of Heaven...
Libby Hathorn has told a gentle, celebratory tale, illuminated by the evocative illustrations of Doris Unger.

Libby Hathorn is an established children's writer of more than 80 works for children, with many awards and commendations in Australia and internationally. Her works have been adapted to stage, screen and opera. Libby has several CBCA awards; was awarded an AWGIE for the libretto of her picture book Grandma's Shoes; and the Lady Cutler Award 2020 for services to Australian Children's Literature. Her most recent book, No Never, written with daughter Lisa Hathorn-Jarman, won the 2021 CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award (Early Readers). Poetry has been a mainstay of her life and work, so composing a picture book text, to her, is much like writing a poem.