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Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy Lynley Dodd Mallinson Rendel, $30.00, ISBN 9781877423147 Beginner writers often think that writing a picture book must be easy. But a story – any story – needs drafts and more drafts before it is ready…
Hideout Lorraine Orman Longacre Press, $18.99, ISBN 9781877361814 Teresa Moran Soldier Ken Catran Lothian Books, $19.99, ISBN 9780734409638 Zillah Penelope Todd Longacre Press, $18.99, ISBN 9781877361739 Losing it Sandy McKay Longacre Press, $18.99, ISBN 9781877361746 These four young adult novels…
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Autumn 2008,
Issue 81,
Ken Catran,
Longacre Press,
Lorraine Orman,
Lothian Books,
Norman Bilbrough,
Penelope Todd,
Sandy McKay
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Fiction,
Literature,
Review,
Young adults
Papa’s Island Melanie Drewery, illustrations Fifi Colston Reed, $16.99, ISBN 1869485947 Nobody’s Dog Jennifer Beck, illustrations Lindy Fisher Scholastic, $16.99, ISBN 1869437284 Haere – Farewell, Jack, Farewell Tim Tipene, illustrations Huhana Smith Huia, $16.99, ISBN 1869691040 Uncle Jack Kate De…
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Ben Brown,
Fifi Colston,
Gavin Bishop,
Helen Taylor,
Huhana Smith,
Huia,
Issue 74,
Jacqui Colley,
Jean Prior,
Jennifer Beck,
Kate De Goldi,
Lindy Fisher,
Melanie Drewery,
Norman Bilbrough,
Pamela Allen,
Puffin,
Reed,
Scholastic,
Tim Tipene,
Trapeze,
Winter 2006
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Children,
Literature,
Review
A Short History of Paradise Norman Bilbrough Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143020358 Kissing Shadows Renée Huia, $34.99, ISBN 1869692039 How often can one say of local fiction, and mean it, that it’s an absolute delight to read? Known as a writer…
This Thing in the Mirror: Self Portraits by New Zealand Artists Claire Finlayson Craig Potton Publishing, $49.95, ISBN 1877333182 This Thing in the Mirror has a foreword by television presenter John Campbell, and the opening statement, “This is a book…
The Real Thing Brian Falkner Mallinson Rendel, $16.95, ISBN 0908783825 Seal Boy Ken Catran Random, $16.95, ISBN 1869416112 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Sandy McKay Longacre Press, $14.95, ISBN 1877135976 Colin Goes Bush Sandy McKay Longacre Press, $14.95, ISBN…
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Brian Falkner,
Eirlys Hunter,
Issue 66,
Ken Catran,
Longacre Press,
Mallinson Rendel,
Norman Bilbrough,
Random,
Sandy McKay,
Scholastic,
Winter 2004
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Children,
Fiction,
Literature,
Review,
Young adults
Why Go To The Riviera: Images of Wellington Peter Shaw Godwit, $99.95, ISBN 1869621018 When Evelyn Page arrived in Wellington in 1947 she was captured by the capital’s energy and bustle. She often painted scenes from her car, even obtaining…
A Friend in Paradise Des Hunt HarperCollins, $14.95, ISBN 1869504429 Henry and the Flea Brian Falkner Mallinson Rendel, $16.95, ISBN 0908783779 The Dragon’s Apprentice Linda McNabb HarperCollins, $14.95, ISBN 1869504127 Artists Are Crazy and Other Stories Ken Catran Lothian Books,…
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Brian Falkner,
Des Hunt,
HarperCollins,
Issue 60,
Ken Catran,
Linda McNabb,
Lothian Books,
Mallinson Rendel,
Norman Bilbrough,
Summer 2002
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Children,
Fiction,
Literature,
Review
The Secret History of Modernism C K Stead Harvill Press, $29.95, ISBN 1864069418 Usually I find it a pleasure to read my way into C K Stead’s particular world; to encounter the consciousness beneath – and attached to – the…
All Done With Mirrors Russell Haley Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877161 68 3 This is the sort of novel you could search through – in vain – for a narrative skeleton: the firm coat-hanger from which the story is…