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Golden BookBoy award 2008 shortlist
I have decided to look back at the list of books I have read this year and try to choose my favourite, which will be awarded the highly sought after 2008 Golden BookBoy Award. You might think this is a simple process, but it is not. Firstly, this year goes back a long way. Almost 52 weeks in fact. I have not written about every book I read and my memory is not what it used to be. So I … Continue reading
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The invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick
The story I am about to share with you takes place in 1931, under the roofs of Paris. Here you will meet a boy named Hugo Cabret, who once, long ago, discovered a mysterious drawing that changed his life forever. But before you turn the page, I want you to picture yourself sitting in the darkness, like the beginning of a movie. On screen, the sun will soon rise, and you will find yourself zooming toward a train station in … Continue reading
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The spell of undoing (Quentaris series), by Paul Collins
The spell of undoing is the first in a new series of books based in the magical city of Quentaris. It sets the scene for this whole series as it described the events that lead to Quentaris becoming a floating city, drifting through the sky and sucked through rifts into other worlds. Paul Collins and Michael Pryor continue as series editors and as with the first series, there will be a number of authors contributing. Tab Vidler is an orphan … Continue reading
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The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane, by Kate DiCamillo
Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a rabbit who was made almost entirely of china. He had china arms and china legs, china paws and a china head, a china torso and a china nose, His arms and legs were jointed and joined by wire so that his china elbows and chine knees could be bent, giving him much freedom of movement. Edward Tulane is a toy rabbit. A doll. But don’t let him hear you say … Continue reading
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Amelia Dee and the peacock lamp, by Odo Hirsch
Yet the most interesting thing in the house, for Amelia, had nothing to do with her father’s inventions. It was a large, exceptionally intricate metalwork lamp that hung at the top of the stairs. The lamp was one of the things that had been installed at some point and then left behind when one family moved out and another moved in, and no one could say where it had come from or when. It hung outside the door to Amelia’s … Continue reading
Beneath Quentaris, by Michael pryor
I have previously written about The Quentaris chronicles, a fantasy series for children written by an impressive list of Australian writers. Beneath Quentaris by Michael Pryor includes Tal and Nisha who have bobbed up elsewhere in the series but there is no problem with reading them out of order. Enough background is given to make this story stand on its own. This book does introduce a new side of Quentaris though: Lower Quentaris. A city beneath the city. Nisha is … Continue reading
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