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Children's Book Reviews
1 June, 2008 There are surprisingly few new ‘horsey’ stories for middle-upper primary school-age children set in Australia, so this first novel from an American-born writer makes a welcome addition to this genre. 
1 June, 2008 The jacket treatment for Mac Slater Coolhunter 1: The Rules of Cool will successfully pull in the 15 year-olds among us, but it will fail the credibility test for those most severe of critics. 
1 June, 2008 This is an addition to the still-too-small number of Indigenous picture books. 
1 June, 2008 The Taris project is the last hope of a world falling apart. An island sheltered by a dome from the outside world. 
1 June, 2008 These four playful board books for babies and toddlers have plenty of the rhythm and rhyme we have come to love in Alison Lester’s work. 
1 June, 2008 Bill Condon has built a strong reputation as a prolific writer of YA novels whose work bravely faces uneasy truths. 
1 June, 2008 ‘When Sian can’t sleep, she likes to count sheep. From one to ten, then start again. 
1 June, 2008 The gross factor is well and truly engaged from the opening sentence. 
31 March, 2008 This book will attract browsers to pick it up and dip inside, with its lettuce-green cover and plumpish small landscape shape. It is almost wordless, telling a story in a sequence of zestful pictures with just a few of the action words beloved of cartoonists: boing, snip, whoosh 
30 March, 2008 Jinx is in trouble and not because of the jokes she tells. She needs money fast. A rogue totem tennis ball has broken the next-door neighbour’s python tank. 
29 March, 2008 What a confronting, brutally frank, poignant novel, written by Kate McCaffrey, author of the successful novel, Destroying Avalon. In Ecstasy illustrates how easily, teens can turn to the insidious world of drug addiction, date rape and alcoholism, and why, for many, drugs are the solution, not the problem. 
28 March, 2008 Joy of joys, a sequel that lives up to the first novel! Cornish’s second novel of the series about his oddly named hero Rossamünd Bookchild continues with ever more harrowing adventures. 
27 March, 2008 The opening scenes are of city skyscrapers and a lone bird flying towards a glass tower in the clouds. For adult readers these images will evoke 9/11 New York. Then, in cartoon-style vignettes we see grey crowds of city folk walking past the wounded bird which has hit the building and plummeted to the footpath. 
25 March, 2008 Nathan Foley is tired of getting ‘encouragement’ awards. He’s going to try anything to get some recognition. He’s ‘going for broke’ even if it kills him. This entry into Walker Books ‘Lightning Strikes’ series for less confident readers finds Nathan trying everything to be recognised as someone exceptional. 
24 March, 2008 Taking the Chequered Flag by Michael Panckridge and Pam Harvey is the fourth book the pair have written together. Panckridge has also writte numerous other novels, including the popular ‘Legends’ series 
23 March, 2008 Libby Gleeson’s latest novel sees her on familiar ground, writing a gripping story about an issue that is too often ignored by writers for young people. Although she is a strong and confident writer, Gleeson never allows her voice to overshadow that of her protagonist, the 12-year-old girl from Afghanistan, whose spirit wins her a place in the heart of the reader. 
23 March, 2008 Award-winning author and illustrator Colin Thompson is well known for his sometimes dark, yet poignant stories about life and the world around us. His characters are often all too real as they grasp with the big issues of the real world in search of a brief glimpse of happiness 
23 March, 2008 As many teachers, readers and booksellers will be aware, there are very few complete books of Australian history for primary school-aged children available, which is what makes Eve Pownell’s The Australia Book unique even by today’s standards. 
21 March, 2008 Nazam Anhar’s first novel is a historical adventure set in the ancient Near East. Milad is a young Phoenician farm boy who longs for adventure. He is sent to sea by his family to earn an income during a drought. 
20 March, 2008 Sucked In is a rather ordinary example of the short fiction intended for boys of 10 to12 years. All the standard elements of fiction aimed at this audience are here—humour based around bodily functions, slapstick comedy, the tried and true horror plot device and finally, the surprise ending. 
19 March, 2008 The Sacrifice is set against the backdrop of pre-War II Melbourne. It follows the life of Robert Wells, a principled man, who is trying very hard to maintain the lifestyle he is used to. 
17 March, 2008 Counting books, like alphabet books, have always served as showcases for the talents of illustrators. McKenzie has produced The Aussie A to Z and achieved outstanding sales with The Australian Twelve Days of Christmas. 
16 March, 2008 Jackie French believes that good, historical writing really needs to come from source documents: things written at the time that give the feeling of the world as it was then, not just the facts. 
16 March, 2008 In the weeds by the side of the railway tracks Nobby and Thicky find an old bike. Although both of them already have bikes Thicky seems to think the wreck has potential. He has no idea what they can make out of it but makes it wound convincing enough to get Nobby to drag it back to his house. 
12 March, 2008 The Stone Crown by Malcolm Walker makes an intriguing use of Arthurian legends to frame a modern adventure fantasy. Emlyn and Max teal a wooden figure of a mounted knight from an ancient burial site, not only setting in motion their own adventure but also awakening an ancient curse that has dogged both of their lives. |
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