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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…
Nearly three years ago, I went to the funeral of Hugh Llewellyn Price who died after many months of living with cancer. And “living with” is the operative phrase here, as even during his last years, he was still having…
Telling Tales: A Life in Writing William Taylor HarperCollins, $39.99, ISBN 1869508378 According to his siblings William Taylor was called after his father’s dog. And here, among an endearing collection of sepia, black and white, and coloured photos in his…
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…
Hunter Joy Cowley Puffin, $16.95, ISBN 0143318292 Super Freak Brian Falkner Mallinson Rendel, $16.95, ISBN 0908783981 Chinatown Girl: The Diary of Silvey Chan, Auckland, 1942 Eva Wong Ng Scholastic New Zealand, $16.99, ISBN 1869436598 Ask any publisher of New Zealand…
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Autumn 2006,
Barbara Murison,
Brian Falkner,
Eva Wong Ng,
Issue 73,
Joy Cowley,
Mallinson Rendel,
Puffin,
Scholastic New Zealand
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Children,
Fiction,
Literature,
Review
Everything You Need to Know About the World by Simon Eliot Lloyd Jones, illustrations by Timon Maxey Four Winds Press, $19.95, ISBN 0958251495 From Weta to Kauri: A Guide to the New Zealand Forest Janet Hunt, photographs by Rob Lucas…
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Andrew Crowe,
Barbara Murison,
Four Winds Press,
Issue 68,
Jennifer Beck,
Lloyd Jones,
Penguin Books,
Random,
Rob Lucas,
Scholastic,
Summer 2004,
Timon Maxey
Posted in
Biography,
Children,
Natural History,
Non-fiction
Juggling with Mandarins V M Jones HarperCollins, $16.99, ISBN 1869504623 The Serpents of Arakesh V M Jones HarperCollins, $14.99, ISBN 1869504771 My Story – Journey to Tangiwai David Hill Scholastic New Zealand, $15.95, ISBN 1869434994 Aunt Effie’s Ark Jack Lasenby…
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Barbara Murison,
David Hill,
HarperCollins,
Issue 64,
Jack Lasenby,
Jacob Leaf,
Kylie Begg,
Longacre Press,
Murray Ball,
Scholastic New Zealand,
Summer 2003,
V M Jones
Posted in
Children,
Fiction,
Literature,
Review,
Young adults
The Truth At Last about the Little Red Hen Hugh Price; illustrations by Isabel Lowe Steele Roberts, $9.95, ISBN 1877228192 The Immigrants Alan Bagnall; illustrations by Sarah Wilkins Mallinson Rendel, $24.95, ISBN 0908783728 Abraham The Builder’s Cat – Adventures on…
Jolt Bernard Beckett Longacre Press, $16.95, ISBN 187713550X Tiggie Tompson All at Sea Tessa Duder Penguin, $15.95, ISBN 0141313234 The Name of the Game David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $15.95, ISBN 0908783639 I opened my parcel of titles for review with…
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Barbara Murison,
Bernard Beckett,
David Hill,
December 2001,
Issue 51,
Longacre Press,
Mallinson Rendel,
Penguin,
Tessa Duder
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Fiction,
Literature,
Review,
Young adults
Three’s a Crowd Penelope Huber Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1877135267 2MUCH4U Vince Ford Scholastic, $12.95, ISBN 1869434161 Golden Prince Ken Catran Lothian Books, $19.95, ISBN 0734400373 Going for Gold Trevor Wilson Scholastic, $12.95, ISBN 1869434404 Earlier this year I realised…
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Autumn 1999,
Barbara Murison,
Issue 45,
Ken Catran,
Longacre,
Lothian Books,
Penelope Huber,
Scholastic,
Trevor Wilson,
Vince Ford
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Children,
Fiction,
Literature,
Review,
Young adults
