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A child’s-eye view, Anna Mackenzie
The Mapmakers’ Race Eirlys Hunter Gecko Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781776572038 Time Twins Arne Norlin and Sally Astridge Submarine, $25.00, ISBN 9780473406325 Finding David Hill Puffin, $20.00, ISBN 9780143772392 The bonds of family and place, seen from an appropriately youthful viewpoint,…
Tagged with: Anna Mackenzie, Arne Norlin, David Hill, Eirlys Hunter, Gecko Press, Issue 124, Puffin, Sally Astridge, Submarine, Summer 2018
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Cliquety-clique? David Hill
Twice Upon a Time James Norcliffe Puffin NZ, $17.00, ISBN 9780143770671 Into the White Joanna Grochowicz Allen and Unwin, $19.00, ISBN 9781760293659 Taupo Blows! Doug Wilson Bateman, $19.00, ISBN 9781869539672 Those accusations from a few months back – the ones…
Tagged with: Allen and Unwin, Bateman, David Hill, Doug Wilson, Issue 119, James Norcliffe, Joanna Grochowicz, Puffin NZ, Spring 2017
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Scaring them silly, Linda Burgess
Gladys Goes to War Glyn Harper (Jenny Cooper illus) Puffin, $20.00, ISBN 9780143507208 Speed King David Hill (Phoebe Morris illus) Puffin, $25.00, ISBN 9780143507222 My Grandpa is a Dinosaur Richard Fairgray and Terry Jones Puffin, $20.00, ISBN 9780143507192 Did You…
Tagged with: Autumn 2017, David Hill, Glyn Harper, Issue 117, Jenny Cooper, Linda Burgess, Phoebe Morris, Raymond McGrath, Richard Fairgray, Terry Jones
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Forward to the 1950s, Trevor Agnew
The Adventures of Hutu and Kawa Avis Acres (text and illus) Puffin, $25.00, ISBN 9780143507055 First to the Top: Sir Edmund Hillary’s Everest Adventure David Hill (Phoebe Morris illus) Puffin, $25.00, ISBN 9780143506874 Changing Times: The Story of a New…
Tagged with: Avis Acres, Bob Kerr, David Hill, Issue 115, Phoebe Morris, Potton and Burton, Puffin, Sally Louise Hill, Spring 2016, Treasured Travels Publishing, Trevor Agnew
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
What’s a New Zealand novel? Sue Esterman
Enemy Camp David Hill Puffin, $20.00, ISBN 9780143309123 Lullaby Bernard Beckett Text, $26.00, ISBN 9781922182753 Open Your Eyes, Jackson Ryder Rudy Castaneda Lopez Escalator Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780473295691 It has been interesting to read three such different but compelling books.…
Tagged with: Bernard Beckett, David Hill, Escalator Press, Issue 114, Puffin, Rudy Castaneda Lopez, Sue Esterman, Text, Winter 2016
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Get the picture? David Hill
The Heading Dog Who Split in Half: Legends and Tall Tales from New Zealand Michael Brown and Mat Tait Potton and Burton, $40.00, ISBN 9781927213575 One of my reservations about graphic novels has been that they limit readers’ imaginative options.…
Tagged with: Autumn 2016, David Hill, Issue 113, Mat Tait, Michael Brown, Potton and Burton
Posted in Graphic novel, Literature, Review
Posted in Graphic novel, Literature, Review
Chimes of conviction, David Hill
How Does it Hurt? Stephanie de Montalk Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864739698 What Lies Beneath: A Memoir Elspeth Sandys Otago University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781877578892 Give Us This Day: A Memoir of Family and Exile Helena Wiśniewska Brow Victoria…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, David Hill, Elspeth Sandys, Helena Wiśniewska Brow, Issue 109, Otago University Press, Stephanie de Montalk, Victoria University Press
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
At the whim of larger, terrifying forces, Angelina Sbroma
The Deadly Sky David Hill Puffin, $20.00, ISBN 9780143308157 The Red Suitcase Jill Harris Mākaro Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780994106902 Spark Rachael Craw Walker, $22.00, ISBN 9781922179623 David Hill’s The Deadly Sky is set in 1974, when the nuclear proliferation of…
Tagged with: Angelina Sbroma, Autumn 2015, David Hill, Issue 109, Jill Harris, Mākaro Press, Puffin, Rachael Craw, Walker
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Hormones and hedges David Hill
Into the River Ted Dawe Longacre, $20.00, ISBN 9781775536048 Dappled Annie and the Tigrish Mary McCallum (Annie Hayward illus) Gecko Press, $20.00, ISBN 9781877579912 Anyone present when Into the River won the Senior Fiction and Book of the Year categories…
Tagged with: Annie Hayward, David Hill, Gecko Press, Issue 106, Longacre, Mary McCallum, Ted Dawe, Winter 2014
Posted in Children, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Literature, Review, Young adults
War means stories, David Hill
Ambiguity and Innocence: The New Zealand Division and the Occupation of Trieste, May 1945 Tony Simpson Silver Owl Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780986451980 The Battles of Monte Cassino: The Campaign and its Consequences Glyn Harper and John Tonkin-Covell Allen and Unwin,…
Tagged with: Allen and Unwin, David Hill, Glyn Harper, Issue 104, John Tonkin-Covell, Silver Owl Press, Summer 2013, Tony Simpson
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
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