Book review: Chike and the River, By Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe’s novel, Chike and the River, perfectly displays the idea of working to achieve a dream. Although this novel is considered fiction, children can easily relate to the characters in the novel. Chike, a young boy from Nigeria, has…
Book Review: The Straw House
The Straw House by Cao Wenxuan, is a Chinese children’s novel. Cao Wenxuan is a professor of Chinese literature at Beijing University, and is a two-time winner of Soong Ching Ling Children’s Literature Award. This novel was translated from Chinese…
Book Review: The Bamboo Flute by Garry Disher
Paul is a twelve-year-old farm boy living near a very small town in southern Australia in the year 1932. Due to a worldwide Great Depression, Paul and his family constantly struggle to make it by. Paul notes that after needing…
A Brief Introduction to Australia’s Most Famous Children’s Authors — Shaun Tan and Sonya Hartnett
Pete Werner Ms. Nithya Sivashankar EDUTL 2368 April 18, 2019 werner.220 After having read two good Australian novels, The Arrival by Shaun Tan and Cuz by Liz Van Der Laarse, I became interested in children’s works coming out of Australia. …
The 39-Storey Treehouse (McCreary.98)
The 39-Story Treehouse is written by Andy Griffiths and illustrated by Terry Denton (ISBN 978-1-250-02692-7). The book is set in Australia and is about two young boys and their adventures living in a 39-story treehouse. Ironically, the two characters in the…
CUZ by Liz Van Der Laarse – Reviewed by Pete Werner (werner.220)
CUZ Liz Van Der Laarse Fiction For ages 11 and up OneTree House Ltd, New Zealand, 2018 ISBN: 978-0-473-42188-5 Set in the far southern region of remote Argentina, Liz Van Der Laarse’s Cuz takes the intermediate, early-teen reader through…