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Putting in the bits the author forgets, Lesley Moyes
Beaten by a Balloon Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Jonathan Allan Hamish Hamilton, $29.95, ISBN 0 241 13 778 0 The Bump Joy Cowley, illustrated by Linda McClelland Scholastic, $12.95, ISBN 1 86943 345 9 Nicketty-Nacketty Noo-Noo-Noo Joy Cowley, illustrated by…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, David Christiana, Hamish Hamilton, Issue 33, Jonathan Allan, Joy Cowley, Linda McClelland, Margaret Mahy, Mark Dower, Norman Bilbrough, Scholastic, Tracey Moroney
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
A noisy life’s work, Rose Lovell-Smith
The Other Side of Silence Margaret Mahy Hamish Hamilton $29.95 ISBN 0 241135516 The Other Side of Silence, Mahy’s latest book for older children, was shortlisted for the Esther Glen Award in 1997 but did not win. I find it…
Tagged with: Hamish Hamilton, Issue 32, Margaret Mahy, Rose Lovell-Smith
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
How misleading it all is, K R Howe
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific Paul Theroux, Hamish Hamilton, $34.95 The barrage of criticism that greeted this book in New Zealand needs to be ignored. The exception taken to Paul Theroux’s acerbic comments about New Zealanders and…
Tagged with: Hamish Hamilton, Issue 7, K R Howe, Paul Theroux, Summer 1992
Posted in Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Pacific, Review