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Not in Wonderland now, Rosemary Lovell-Smith
Harry Wakatipu Comes the Mong Jack Lasenby Puffin Books, $15.95, ISBN 014331808X No Safe Harbour David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $16.95, ISBN 0908783760 Boy Next Door Penelope Todd Longacre Press, $16.95, ISBN 1877135763 Buddy V M Jones HarperCollins, $16.99, ISBN 1869504313…
Tagged with: David Hill, HarperCollins, Issue 60, Jack Lasenby, Longacre Press, Mallinson Rendel, Penelope Todd, Puffin Books, Rosemary Lovell-Smith, Summer 2002, V M Jones
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
One of Alf’s, Jack Lasenby
Somebodies and Nobodies Brian Turner Vintage, $34.95 ISBN 1869415078 Few autobiographies return us to scrutinising our own lives. I’ve just had – suffered – that experience reading Brian Turner’s Somebodies and Nobodies. It covers his first 25 years, from birth…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Brian Turner, Issue 57, Jack Lasenby, Vintage
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
The parent problem, Joan de Hamel
Recycled Sandy McKay Longacre Press, $14.95, ISBN 1887135496 My Dad the All Black Sandy McKay Longacre Press, $14.95, ISBN 1887135690 The Dare Club Vince Ford Longacre Press, $14.95, ISBN 1877135682 Stranded Jan Thorburn Mallinson Rendel, $17.95, ISBN 0908783671 Aunt Effie…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Issue 57, Jack Lasenby, Jan Thorburn, Joan de Hamel, Longacre Press, Mallinson Rendel, Sandy McKay, Vince Ford
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Some Content May Disturb, David Hill
Kalik Jack Lasenby Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 01877135593 Why should I have to review Lasenby? After all, the guy’s beaten me far too often in far too many Children’s Book Awards. I’ll review him because his Travellers quartet of Young Adult…
Tagged with: David Hill, Issue 54, Jack Lasenby, Longacre, Winter 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
The flip side of adventurousness, Judith Holloway
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
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
The good, the sad and the reckless, Pat Quinn
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
Posted in Children, Literature
Only kidding, Julie Eberly
Hark William Taylor Scholastic, $11.95 ISBN 1 86943 397 1 Uncle Trev’s Teeth Jack Lasenby Cape Catley, $24.95 ISBN 0 90856166 0 Bad grammar and quickly dated vernacular are the most significant problems in William Taylor’s use of a first…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, Issue 34, Jack Lasenby, Julie Eberly, Scholastic, William Taylor
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Tall tales and truths from an underrated writer, Judith Holloway
Dead Man’s Head Jack Lasenby McIndoe, $18.95 There is a special category of books written about the world of children which are, on the whole, written for children to read (or to have read to them) but whose themes, originality…
Tagged with: Issue 16, Jack Lasenby, Judith Holloway, McIndoe, Summer 1994
Posted in Children, Literature, Young adults
Posted in Children, Literature, Young adults