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The Chosen One Joy H Davidson DHD Publishing, $27.00, ISBN 9780473448301 Harsu and the Werestoat Barbara Else Gecko Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781776572199 The World of Greek Mythology Ben Spies Spies Publishing, $20.00, ISBN 9780473455866 Fantasy has always mattered to me.…
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Alex Mitcalfe Wilson,
Barbara Else,
Ben Spies,
DHD Publishing,
Gecko Press,
Issue 127,
Joy H Davidson,
Spies Publishing,
Spring 2019
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Make a Hard Fist Tina Shaw One Tree House, $20.00, ISBN 9780473421878 Ocean’s Kiss Lani Wendt Young One Tree House, $29.00, ISBN 9780995106741 Legacy Whiti Hereaka Huia, $25.00, ISBN 9781775503347 To state the obvious, one problem with writing young adult…
Dancing between order and chaos Novelist and children’s writer Barbara Else remembers Barbara Murison (b Wellington Nov 26, 1931, d Waikanae, May 7, 2017) Barbara Murison, librarian and life-long advocate of children’s reading, exemplified Margaret Mahy’s definition of the librarian…
Coming Home to Roost Mary-Anne Scott Longacre Press, $20.00, ISBN 9781775538592 The Road to Ratenburg Joy Cowley Gecko Press, $20.00, ISBN 9781776570751 Twice now I’ve been a marker at a regional Lit Quiz where teams of top intermediate age readers…
The Bakehouse Joy Cowley Gecko Press, $20.00, ISBN 978177650072 The Knot Impossible: A Tale of Fontania Barbara Else Gecko Press, $25.00, ISBN 978177650041 The Girl Who Rode the Wind Stacy Gregg HarperCollins, $25.00, ISBN 9780008124304 Joy Cowley’s The Bakehouse…
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Autumn 2016,
Barbara Else,
Gecko Press,
HarperCollins,
Issue 113,
Joy Cowley,
Kathryn Walls,
Stacy Gregg
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Fiction,
Literature,
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Soup and Bread Nōnen Títi Nōnen Títi, $25.00, ISBN 9780994107732 The Pirates and the Nightmaker James Norcliffe Longacre, $20.00, ISBN 9781775537694 The Volume of Possible Endings: A Tale of Fontania Barbara Else Gecko Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781927271377 Two of these…
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Barbara Else,
Eirlys Hunter,
Gecko Press,
Issue 110,
James Norcliffe,
Longacre,
Nōnen Títi,
Winter 2015
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Fiction,
Literature,
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Speed of Light Joy Cowley Gecko Press, $20.00, ISBN 9781877579936 Teddy One-Eye: The Autobiography of a Teddy Bear Gavin Bishop Random House, $35.00, ISBN 9781775537274 The ACB with Honora Lee Kate De Goldi (drawings by Gregory O’Brien) Longacre, $25.00, ISBN…
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Barbara Else,
Gavin Bishop,
Gecko Press,
Gregory O’Brien,
Issue 110,
Joy Cowley,
Kate De Goldi,
Longacre,
Random House,
Winter 2015
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Fiction,
Literature,
Review
The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd Finlay Macdonald Penguin, $50.00, ISBN 9780143567967 A tousle on spindly legs has conquered the world. How did it happen? Finlay Macdonald’s biography of Lynley Dodd describes her journey from childhood in the Kaingaroa…
Marked Denis Martin Walker Books, $20.00, ISBN 9781921977541 My Brother’s War David Hill Puffin, $15.00, ISBN 9781742532653 Into the River Ted Dawe Mangakino University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780473205089 The Nature of Ash Mandy Hager Random House, $20.00, ISBN 9781869799038 Two…
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Autumn 2013,
Barbara Else,
David Hill,
Denis Martin,
Issue 101,
Mandy Hager,
Mangakino University Press,
Puffin,
Random House,
Ted Dawe,
Walker Books
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Children,
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Literature,
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Young adults
The Brain Sucker Glenn Wood Walker Books, $19.00, ISBN 9781921933633 The Queen and the Nobody Boy Barbara Else Gecko Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781877579233 How to Sell Toothpaste Leonie Thorpe HarperCollins, $25.00, ISBN 9781869509422 Glenn Wood’s The Brain Sucker is the…
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Angelina Sbroma,
Autumn 2013,
Barbara Else,
Gecko Press,
Glenn Wood,
HarperCollins,
Issue 101,
Leonie Thorpe,
Walker Books
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