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Guardian Review Best Children’s Books 2017

December 5, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment

While I was busy compiling the ACHUKA Best We’ve Read In 2017 feature, there were some weekend roundups I haven’t posted links to yet.

First up Imogen Russell Williams, having also picked some illustrated highlights for TLS (see this previous post), made her across-the-ages selections for The Guardian…

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/02/the-best-childrens-books-2017

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Spectator Roundup

November 30, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment

Katherine Rundell is a cracking children’s author. The Explorer, about a group of children stranded in the Amazon who meet an explorer, is a kind of cross between Indiana Jones and the film Up and is one of the most captivating books of the year. Rundell’s book for younger children, One Christmas Wish (Bloomsbury, £14.99), charmingly illustrated by Emily Sutton, about a lonely little boy who wishes on a falling star, is engaging and poignant: the Christmas spirit in 64 pages.

full set of recommendations from Melanie McDonagh >>> https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/12/a-survey-of-this-years-childrens-books-sets-the-cat-among-the-pigeons/

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Teen Titles 69

October 16, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment

Always a pleasure to receive the latest issue of Teen Titles.
Included in Issue 69, alongside the usual reviews:

  • a feature about Geraldine McCaughrean
  • a full-length interview feature with Sarah Govett, author of The Territory
  • a short-length interview with cover title authorMary G Thompson
  • a full-length interview feature with Danny Weston
  • and several new additions to the Author Factifiles

To enquire about subscribing to TeenTitles email
learning.publications@edinburgh.gov.uk

 

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The best children’s books this autumn – The Scotsman

October 15, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment

Beautiful illustrations of nocturnal creatures, imaginary friends and frustrated vampires bring these children’s stories to life, write Emma Dunn and Sarah Mallon

via The best children’s books this autumn – The Scotsman.

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Children’s books roundup: the best new picture books and novels

October 2, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment

Guardian Children’s Books Roundup, selected and commented on by Imogen Russell Williams

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/30/childrens-books-roundup-goth-girl-michael-morpurgo

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Guardian Reivew: The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue

July 24, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment

The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue reviewed by Linda BUckley-Archer

Emma Donoghue, the award-winning novelist best known for Room, has made her first foray into children’s fiction. The Lotterys Plus One is set in cosmopolitan Toronto and features a household that embodies diversity and respect for the planet. It’s a tale that’s funny, heartwarming and quietly provocative.

There is a huge difference between writing about children and for children. In sharp contrast to the grim tale of five-year-old Jack and his virtuoso narration of Room, Donoghue’s latest novel is full of warmth and light, its third-person perspective introducing us to a large and, in some respects, utopian family unit.

via The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue review – it’s a family affair | Books | The Guardian.

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Fiction for older children reviews – Kitty Empire, The Observer

July 24, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment

In the UK, you wouldn’t want under-12s to have much contact with doormen – ours being burly negotiators who remove the ill-behaved from nightclubs.

In New York, however, doormen are the guardians of gracious apartment buildings and, thus, civilisation itself. One such building is the star of The Doorman’s Repose, by Caldecott Medal winner Chris Raschka (Faber, £11.99), an urbane collection of New Yorker-ish short stories. It begins with a new doorman – who, disastrously, knows nothing about baseball – taking up his post. Otis, the elevator, plays matchmaker; Liesl, the boiler, loses her va-va-voom; the mice are into jazz and psychotherapy, and the humans in these droll, Lemony Snicket-like stories are only slightly less variegated.

full set of reviewa via Fiction for older children reviews – tales of the cities | Books | The Guardian.

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Summer Y.A. Escapes – The New York Times

July 22, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment

Half a dozen YA reviews by Catherine Hong, a contributing editor at Elle Decor, blogs about children’s books at mrslittle.com.

via Summer Y.A. Escapes from Sarah Dessen, Andrew McCarthy and More – The New York Times.

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Children’s books special: titles to delight younger readers

July 10, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment

As the long summer holidays begin, Emma Dunn and Sarah Mallon have lots of suggestions to keep children of all ages turning the page

via Children’s books special: titles to delight younger readers – The Scotsman.

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Guardian Review – Release by Patrick Ness

May 15, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment

Release by Patrick Ness, reviewed by Imogen Russell Williams

Ness’s great achievement in Release is to acknowledge the weight, worth and agony of first love, and to show the richer blooming of a second, still prone to pain and error, irrevocably shaped by earlier experience, but knowing and expecting more, now, from both parties. It’s a book that will speak, with passionate warmth, to anyone who has ever been made to feel “less than”.

via Release by Patrick Ness review – a gay teenager’s quest for freedom | Books | The Guardian.

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