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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
Past and future worlds, Rose Lovell-Smith
Ebony Hill Anna Mackenzie Longacre, $19.99, ISBN 9781877460487 Blood Lines T K Roxborogh Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143205050 Both these books are sequels to earlier publications honoured by the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards and by other…
Tagged with: Anna Mackenzie, Autumn 2011, Issue 93, Longacre, Penguin Books, Rose Lovell-Smith, T K Roxborogh
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Boyznbooks, Rose Lovell-Smith
And Did Those Feet Ted Dawe Longacre Press, $18.99, ISBN 9781877361494 Single Fin Aaron Topp Random House, $18.99, ISBN 1869417844 Castaway: The Diary of Samuel Abraham Clark, Disappointment Island, 1907 Bill O’Brien Scholastic, $16.99, ISBN 1869437500 Boyznbikes Vince Ford Scholastic,…
Tagged with: Aaron Topp, Bill O’Brien, Issue 78, Longacre Press, Random House, Rose Lovell-Smith, Scholastic, Ted Dawe, Vince Ford, Winter 2007
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Young adults
Long ago and far away, Rose Lovell-Smith
The Drover’s Road Collection: Adventures in New Zealand Joyce West Bethlehem Books & Ignatius Press, $35.95 [approx], ISBN 1883937698 Joyce West published Drover’s Road with Dent in London in 1953. Two further volumes about Gay Allan and the other Drover’s…
Tagged with: Bethlehem Book, Ignatius Press, Issue 66, Joyce West, Rose Lovell-Smith, Winter 2004
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
A slimming diet, Rose Lovell-Smith
Scarface and the Angel William Taylor Longacre Press, $14.95, ISBN 1877135445 Afterwards David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $14.95, ISBN 090878354X Twenty-Four Hours Margaret Mahy Collins, $16.95, ISBN 0007113722 Leon Frances Cherry Mallinson Rendel, $14.95, ISBN 0908783582 Here’s a batch of four…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Collins, David Hill, Frances Cherry, Issue 49, Longacre Press, Mallinson Rendel, Margaret Mahy, Rose Lovell-Smith, William Taylor
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
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
Pious historians, pioneer ancestors, Rose Lovell-Smith
Nothing but Grass and Wind: The Rutherfords of North Canterbury Janet Holm, Hazard Press, $59.95 The Voyage of the ‘May Queen’ Margaret Drake Brockman, Merlin Books, price not given In 1859 George Rutherford bought the lease of a largish…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 9, Janet Holm, Margaret Drake Brockman, Merlin Books, Rose Lovell-Smith, Winter 1993
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review