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Paging through, Barbara Murison

All This and a Bookshop Too  Dorothy Butler Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143011651 For anyone involved with books for children and young people in this country, All This and a Bookshop Too is not just a book one would like

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Brylcreem and black bloomers, Deborah Laurs

There Was a Time Dorothy Butler Penguin Books, $34.95, ISBN 0 14 238285 8 Ever since Janet Frame’s An Angel at my Table, it has been difficult for readers to accept “autobiography” as a genre of non-fiction quite as readily

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Removing the adult voice, Kathryn Walls

Baker’s Dozen Tom Bradley, HarperCollins, $12.95 Saved by Ryan Kane Pauline Cartwright, Ashton Scholastic, $7.95 The Secret of Boomer Lake Ken Catran, HarperCollins, $10.95 The Breakdown Day Dorothy Butler, Ashton Scholastic, $12.95 Tom Bradley’s Baker’s Dozen is a collection of

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