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Flights of fancy, Diane Hebley
Sting Raymond Huber Walker Books, $16.99, ISBN 9781921150890 The Strange and Diverting Story of The Loblolly Boy: A Fantasy Novel Involving Enchantment, Mystery, one Garden Gnome and a Wombat’s Bottom James Norcliffe Longacre Press, $19.99, ISBN 9781877460258 Return for the…
Tagged with: Diane Hebley, Issue 87, James Norcliffe, Longacre Press, Margaret Hall, Raymond Huber, Spring 2009, Walker Books
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Becoming someone else, Diane Hebley
Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful Brigid Lowry Allen and Unwin, $19.99, ISBN 9781741751604 The Transformation of Minna Hargreaves Fleur Beale Random House, $19.99, ISBN 9781869418366 Duet David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $17.00, ISBN 9781877423062 Full marks to the three well-established authors…
Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Brigid Lowry, David Hill, Diane Hebley, Fleur Beale, Issue 81, Mallinson Rendel, Random House, Winter 2008
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
The amazonian element, Diane Hebley
The Apple Tree and other stories Lynley Dodd Mallinson Rendel, $29.95, ISBN 0908783469 Scarface Claw Lynley Dodd Mallinson Rendel, $24.95, ISBN 0908783620 Baby Bumble and the Sock Pirates Vivienne Joseph, illustrated by Ruth Paul Mallinson Rendel, $24.95, ISBN 0908783507 Nanny…
Tagged with: December 2001, Diane Hebley, Issue 51, John Walsh, Lynley Dodd, Mallinson Rendel, Ruth Paul, Te Papa Press, Vivienne Joseph
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Boxed in, Kathryn Walls
The Power of Place: Landscape in New Zealand Children‘s Fiction Diane Hebley University of Otago Press $39.95 ISBN 1 8771 33 47 7 Diane Hebley’s useful introduction to New Zealand writing for children, Off the SIMM was published in 1980.…
Tagged with: Diane Hebley, Issue 35, Kathryn Walls, University of Otago Press
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Traditional patterning, Diane Hebley
Children’s books The long history of story has inevitably established the effectiveness of traditional patterns. Among the 1997 crop of picture books, though illustrators often choose modern styles, most texts are structured traditionally, giving circularity in a promised repeat performance…
Proving the definition, Diane Hebley
Young adult fiction exists — that has been accepted for over two decades. Its classification depends almost solely on the viewpoint of its young adult protagonists towards their concerns: friends, family, sexual relationships and sometimes the world at large. This…
Sponsorship critical but… Diane Hebley
What has toothpaste got to do with children’s books? Much brightening and enlightening if you put the word AIM in front of Children’s Book Awards. From 1990-95 the marketers of AIM toothpaste have sponsored these annual awards (this year New…
Cheap Christmases, Diane Hebley
Owning books is part of the pleasure principle that brings children a lifetime’s development in the understanding of mysteries and complications in the human condition. Children who own books establish long-term relationships with book-creators through frequent rereadings — something much…
Bovver boys
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