http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1604 Cats and Alchemy 2013-05-23T00:28:31Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1821 Title: Twenty Years On, May Bestsellers, August Highlights. Abstract: This item contains miscellaneous items from the June/July 2002 issue including May 2002 bestsellers. 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1820 Title: Shrinking the Language. "Glory", by Sarah Brill and "Runestone", by Anna Cidor and "Swan Song", by Colin Thiele. [review] Authors: Newell, Patrice Abstract: The books under review here cater for widely differing age groups. The difference is not dictated by language — the level of English in each could be handled by any competent nine-year-old — but by their subject matter. "Runestone", the first in a series by Anna Ciddor, is set in Scandinavia during Viking times. Colin Thiele’s "Swan Song" is a step back in time. In "Glory", Sarah Brill’s first novel, readers will have dined on anorexia and adoption worries, and been exposed to suicide by page seventeen. By the book’s end, Brill’s fifteen-year-old heroine has left home, got a job, lost the job, lost her virginity, experimented with a smorgasbord of drugs, shacked up with a loser, faced eviction and experienced homelessness. 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1819 Title: Tales for a Dry Country. "The Very Super Adventures of Nic and Naomi", by Venero Armanno and Anna Pignataro and "Quetta", by Gary Crew and Bruce Whatley and "The Magic Hat", by Mem Fox and "Old Tom's Holiday", by Leigh Hobbs and "A Year on Our Farm", by Penny Matthews. [review] Authors: Lowe, Virginia Abstract: Virginia Lowe reviews several children's books here: picture books that relate the dryness of Australia and the joy of the rainy season; stories of forging unusual friendships; the familiar tragedy of shipwrecks; and the delight of Mem Fox's wacky rhymes. 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1818 Title: A Tense and Surging Affair. "Scraping through Stone", by Judith Fox. [review] Authors: Trigg, Stephanie Abstract: Richard I’s crusade to the Holy Land provides a dramatic backdrop for Fox’s New Age ‘fable about the mysteries of passion and faith’, in which Sibylla and Dominic grow up separately in England and Scotland before their various adventures and desires lead them through Europe to Jerusalem. In "Scraping through Stone", Fox works through a full suite of scenes recognisable from other ‘medieval’ novels. 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z