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Children's Book Reviews
2 February, 2007 It is a very welcome talent that can create fiction light as air and refreshing as sunshine but that leaves the reader with substantial questions to ponder.
Hyram & B by Brian Caswell
2 February, 2007 B Bear tells the story of his life with Hyram. In happier times they lived together with a girl who understood the language of bears.
Harriet and the Fox by Rina A. Foti
2 February, 2007 Harriet and the Fox is a lively and amusing picture book suitable for ages 3–6 years. 
2 February, 2007 Co-author Sarah Jackson’s quest to understand her Aboriginality leads Grandma Doris to explain her mother’s experience as one of the Stolen Generation. 
2 February, 2007 Part docu-drama, part non-fiction narrative, Fly A Rebel Flag takes the reader to the Victorian goldfields of 1855 and an event that helped shape our nation. 
2 February, 2007 Their skin might be green and jeans difficult to fit into but Morris’s alligator family-and their zebra, hippopotamus, turtle, giraffe, wildebeest and warthog neighbours-have all the traits of Bob Graham’s human creations. 
2 February, 2007 Fergal, whose bald head and huge nose creates an impression of a cross between an infant and a dugong, lives in pleasant surroundings with a dog, cat and flowers; beautiful prints by Matisse, Coburn and Blackman; and seven televisions that he switches on, all at once, first thing each morning. 
2 February, 2007 Dragonkeeper is the story of an 11-year-old slave girl, Ping, who saves the life of the last Imperial Dragon and unwittingly and unwillingly sets off on a quest with the dragon and her beloved pet rat to reach Ocean, a place of sanctuary and healing that Ping isn't even sure exists. 
2 February, 2007 Dark Dreams is, as its title suggests, a bleak collection.
Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson
4 November, 2006 Silver is a small, freckled, orange-haired eleven-year-old. Her family disappeared whilst on a train-trip to London and since then she has been looked after by her aunt Mrs Rockabye. Actually, Mrs Rockabye is like the wicked stepmother in Cinderella, so she makes sure that Silver does all the work and she keeps her in the cellar and feeds her on scraps. Mrs Rockabye's chief ally is her pet rabbit (called Bigamous "on account of his habits") who, unless Silver can bribe him with carrots, spies on her every move. 
1 November, 2006 The simple texts in these two new additions to the ‘When I’m Feeling’ series, describe two emotions we all feel at various times in our lives, using language small children can comprehend. 
1 November, 2006 The Taste of Lightning picks up a decade or two after the events of Constable’s original ‘Chanters of Tremaris’ trilogy, this time with a new band of young characters-the self-reliant laundry-maid Tansy, self-centred but charming soldier Perrin and doubt-filled priest-king in exile Skir. 
1 November, 2006 Elly hates being a fairy, she can’t stand the clothes and loathes flying (she prefers skateboarding).
Dinosaur by Michael Salmon **
1 November, 2006 The blurb accompanying this book tells the reader that the author has sold several million books worldwide since he started drawing a surfie cartoon strip back in the 1970s, also that the children of Australia have voted his books, toys and board games their favourite. 
1 November, 2006 Many of us go through life seemingly oblivious of the things around us, too busy to stop and smell the roses and to really take in the beauty and the opportunities that surround us. 
1 November, 2006 Maureen McCarthy is well known for writing successful young adult novels such as Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude, Chain of Hearts and Cross My Heart. 
1 November, 2006 A new picture book illustrated by prolific illustrator Craig Smith is always a pleasure and this new one is a welcome addition to his body of work. 
1 November, 2006 I recommend this book to all those grumpy old men and women out there. 
1 November, 2006 Circle of Flight is the final book in the ‘Ellie Chronicles’, three books that follow on from Marsden’s famous ‘Tomorrow’ series.
Children's Book Reviews - October 2006
15 October, 2006 Margo Lanagan seems to be quite remarkably becoming a short-story specialist, with Red Spikes her third consecutive volume of short stories, all broadly within the fantasy genre, and all supposedly aimed at a young adult audience. Given the prevalent view that there is little market for short stories, let alone short stories that are quite as peculiar as those that emerge from Lanagan’s fertile imagination, this is indeed a remarkable show of faith from her publisher.
Barry Noodles and DaKillerBs by Le, Hung *
1 September, 2006 Hung Le is Australia’s premier Vietnamese comic. In his new book for pre-teens, his main character Barry ‘Noodles’ Tran has a lot in common with Le. 
1 September, 2006 Roger McDonald has written an adventure, history and love story based on a number of wonderful themes—the early development of the Australian wool industry, and the damage wrought by sheep; relations between the convicts and those responsible for them; the rum culture and greed in the Officer Corps at the time; and the treatment, and mistreatment, of the women, both convict and free. 
1 September, 2006 Each night as the curtain goes up in the circus’ big top, jugglers juggle, bears fly through the air and India plays her melodious mouth organ.
Children's Book Reviews - August 2006
18 August, 2006 Blaze of Glory by Michael Pryor introduces us to a world of intrigue, conspiracy and magical mistrust as young Aubrey Fitzwilliam tries to save his kidnapped father from those who would send his country to war to further their plans for political domination. In Blaze of Glory, Aubrey and his ever-loyal friend George team up with the feisty Caroline Hepworth to uncover a mystery that could bring their country to the brink of war. As the novel is an historical fiction, it is peopled by powerful political figures like Prince Albert, lending a familiarity to the action of the novel without sacrificing the excitement and drama.
Children's Book Reviews - June 2006
15 June, 2006 The Australian wilderness is again featured in this picture book with a slight difference. The central characters are birds. Bushranger Bill is written by Megan de Kantzow. Megan has grown up listening to bushranging ballads. She had an encounter with two Bower Birds one day whom inspired this story. The illustrations are by Amanda Graham, author of award-winning Arthur. Bushranger Bill is about a bird that will do anything to secure his one true love. When the idyllic life of Bushranger Bill and his love Tourmaline Lil is threatened by the evil Captain Bluff who kidnaps Tourmaline for himself, Bushranger Bill must do something to rescue her. In an interesting take on Ned Kelly, Bushranger Bill hatches a plan to take back what is rightfully his. |
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