Another book which has been sitting by my side for some time and I finally get to finish it! And very well worth it, I must say. I am disappointed that the end of the year has come and I will have to wait till next year to tell people about it.
Some might say, [...]
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These books are Awesome. They are fantasy, history and science fiction all in one!!
“A thrilling Celtic Fantasy that wreaks havoc with history.”
The story follows Australian-born Tory when her car breaks down outside a stone circle. Deciding on a whim to sleep inside the circle, Tory wakes fourteen hundred years before. Carrying items such as a CD player [...]
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Phillip Gwynne is the award-winning author of such books as Deadly Unna? and this is his latest. Like Deadly Unna?, it deals with a male teenager who has to find himself and come to terms with issues of family and love. There is no race discourse in Swerve and it seems to be less complex [...]
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Another Morris Gleitzman novel and another young girl who has to struggle against society to keep her family together. That sounds dismissive when I really don’t mean it to be. This is a great read – suitable for younger readers as well as adults with a potentially powerful message regarding religion, church and faith.
As [...]
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It has been a weekend of graphic novels. For some reason, there just happened to be three all lined up in my bag on Friday afternoon so I was compelled to finish them.
Skim is the most problematic. It describes a young girl’s journey through a high school year and is full of questions about [...]
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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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In her touching young adult fantasy novel, ‘Finnikin of the Rock’, Melina Marchetta tells the story of a spirited young man as he strives to return home to a kingdom sealed by a curse.
Finnikin, son of Trevanion the Captain of the King’s Guard, is under the tutelage of Sir Topher the King’s First Man, a [...]
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