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Beyond the pale, Kathryn Walls
Heloise Mandy Hager Penguin Random House, $38.00, ISBN 9780143770992 Heloise is Mandy Hager’s reconstruction in novelistic terms of the lives of the 12th-century lovers Heloise and Abelard, told from Heloise’s point of view. While both Abelard and Heloise read a…
Tagged with: Issue 120, Kathryn Walls, Mandy Hager, Penguin Random House, Summer 2017
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
New seeds for old, Kathryn Walls
The Mijo Tree Janet Frame (Deidre Copeland illus) Penguin, $25.00, ISBN 9780143569428 A Book is a Book Jenny Bornholdt (Sarah Wilkins illus) Gecko Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781877579929 Dunger Joy Cowley Gecko Press, $20.00, ISBN 9781977579462 Janet Frame sent the typescript…
Tagged with: Autumn 2014, Deidre Copeland, Gecko Press, Issue 105, Janet Frame, Jenny Bornholdt, Joy Cowley, Kathryn Walls, Penguin Books, Sarah Wilkins
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Don’t we live in America? Rose Lovell-Smith
A Made-Up Place: New Zealand in Young Adult Fiction Anna Jackson, Geoff Miles, Harry Ricketts, Tatjana Schaefer and Kathryn Walls Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864736970 Chapter four of this collection of essays by five authors is called “Utopia”.…
Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Autumn 2012, Geoff Miles, Harry Ricketts, Issue 97, Kathryn Walls, Rose Lovell-Smith, Tatjana Schaefer, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review, Young adults
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review, Young adults
Riddles and charms, Kathryn Walls
The Magical Verse of Margaret Mahy: The Word Witch Tessa Duder (ed), David Elliot (illustrations) HarperCollins, $44.99, ISBN 9781869507077 The Dark Blue Hundred-ride Bus Ticket Margaret Mahy HarperCollins, $19.99, ISBN 9781869508166 Awesome Aotearoa: Margaret Mahy’s History of New Zealand Margaret…
Tagged with: AUT Media, David Elliot, HarperCollins, Kathryn Walls, Margaret Mahy, Tessa Duder, Trace Hodgson
Posted in Children, History, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, History, Literature, Review
Children’s fiction Wilderness tips, Kathryn Walls
The Tears of Harry Wakatipu Jack Lasenby Longacre Press, $18.99, ISBN 1877361437 Stories about individuals surviving in the wilderness have a long history. The Old Testament represents the wilderness as the place of escape from the oppression and corruption of…
Tagged with: Issue 75, Jack Lasenby, Kathryn Walls, Longacre Press, Spring 2006
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Cracks in the world, Kathryn Walls
Margaret Mahy: A Writer’s Life Tessa Duder HarperCollins, $39.95, ISBN 1869504852 Margaret Mahy’s 1995 novel The Other Side of Silence presents itself as the autobiography of its female hero (whose name, too, is “Hero”). At the end, however, the first…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 70, Kathryn Walls, Tessa Duder, Winter 2005
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Charms and riddles, Kathryn Walls
Another 100 New Zealand Poems for Children ed Rachel McAlpine (illustrated David Elliot) Random House, $24.95, ISBN 1869414853 Like its evidently popular predecessor, this anthology is invitingly presented. Hard covers announce that it is meant to be kept for long-term…
Tagged with: David Elliot, Issue 55, Kathryn Walls, Rachel McAlpine, Spring 2001
Posted in Children, Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Poetry, Review
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Home truths and fantasy worlds, Kathryn Walls
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