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Heroics, Ken Catran

Posted on December 1, 2006 by NZ Books

Best and Bravest: Kiwis Awarded the Victoria Cross Glyn Harper and Colin Richardson HarperCollins, $17.99, ISBN 1869505239 Soldier in the Yellow Socks: Charles Upham, Our Finest Fighting Soldier Janice Marriott HarperCollins, $19.99, ISBN 1869505697 War Zones Helen Beaglehole Steele Roberts,…

Tagged with: Colin Richardson, Glyn Harper, HarperCollins, Helen Beaglehole, Issue 76, Janice Marriott, Ken Catran, Steele Roberts, Summer 2006
Posted in Children, Fiction, History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review, War

Writing for the little pink babies, Helen Beaglehole

Posted on March 1, 2001 by NZ Books

In the early 1990s, researchers interested in the construction Of gender dressed a number of small babies in a nursery randomly in blue or pink, so that some little girl babies were in blue and some little boy babies in…

Tagged with: Autumn 2001, Helen Beaglehole, Issue 53
Posted in Comment

The flip side of adventurousness, Judith Holloway

Posted on August 7, 2000 by NZ Books

Closed, Stranger Kate De Goldi Penguin, $15.95, ISBN 0 14 130504 5 hanging on letting go Helen Beaglehole Mallinson Rendel, $14.95, ISBN 0 908783 47 7 The Shaman and the Droll Jack Lasenby Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1 877135 32 1…

Tagged with: Cape Catley, Elizabeth Benney, Helen Beaglehole, Issue 44, Jack Lasenby, Judith Holloway, Kate De Goldi, Mallinson Rendel, Penguin
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults

The good, the sad and the reckless, Pat Quinn

Posted on March 16, 1999 by NZ Books

Taur Jack Lasenby Longacre Press, $14.95, ISBN 1 877135 18 6 because he’s my brother Helen Beaglehole Mallinson Rendel, $16.95, ISBN 0 908783 31 0 At the Big Red Rooster William Taylor Longacre Press, $14.95, ISBN 0 877135 20 8…

Tagged with: Fleur Beale, Helen Beaglehole, Issue 37, Jack Lasenby, Longacre Press, Mallinson Rendel, Pat Quinn, Scholastic, William Taylor
Posted in Children, Literature

Thank God for Harvey, Helen Beaglehole

Posted on March 1, 1999 by NZ Books

Window Licking in the City of Love Jennifer Maxwell Flamingo, $24.95, ISBN 4 86950 348 X Table at Sunset Lodge Vonnie Alexander Quoin Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877163 25 2 Butterfly Mind Gwyneth Perry Bookcaster Press, $20.00, ISBN 0 473…

Tagged with: Anne Mulcock, Autumn 1999, Bookcaster Press, Flamingo, Gwyneth Perry, Hazard Press, Helen Beaglehole, Issue 45, Jennifer Maxwell, Quoin Press, Sandi Hall, Spinifex, Vonnie Alexander
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

On the side of life, David Hill

Posted on June 4, 1998 by NZ Books

Dare, Truth or Promise Paula Boock Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1 8771 35 08 9 The Family Album Helen Beaglehole Cape Catley, $1 6.95, ISBN 0 908561 58 X The Whole of the Moon Duncan Stuart Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1 8771…

Tagged with: Cape Catley, David Hill, Duncan Stuart, Helen Beaglehole, Issue 33, Joy Cowley, Longacre, Paula Boock, Viking
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults