Undoubtedly, one of the highlights of the year for us in Australia is the announcement of the Children’s Book Council Awards. The winners have been announced and can be found here.
It is no surprise to me that the winner of the Older Readers’ section is Shaun Tan’s Tales from Outer Suburbia. It is one [...]
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I normally am not moved by horse books. Animal books of any kind, really. But then, this is not a horse book. It is a CBC shortlisted book about a young girl, Ruby, and the relationships she has at school, her family and her new-ish neighbour, Maggie.
I enjoyed it very much; the combination of [...]
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This is a shortlisted book for the 2009 CBC Awards and deservedly so. It tells the tale of a group of Antarctic explorers in the early 1920s who set out to cross the ice continent. What is interesting is the manner in which the tale is told, with a combinaton of journal entries interspersed [...]
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