I recently enjoyed an evening with Random House, eating, drinking, and also hearing about and previewing their forthcoming books. Here are two of their up-and-coming children's picture books.
RATS! / Gavin Bishop (to be published October 2007)
This is vintage Gavin Bishop, with wonderfully detailed illustrations, mainly of the lovingly-drawn interior of a New Zealand house. The story is about a woman over-run by rats. After a pied-piper type exterminator gets rid of the rats, she finds herself a little lonely...
Tahi - One Lucky Kiwi / Melanie Drewery (to be published October 2007)
Melanie Drewery's latest tells the true story of a Kiwi called Tahi, who gets an artificial leg, thanks partly to Weta Workshop. The story is told in very simple picture-book format with a fictitious young boy sharing the latest about Tahi each morning at his classroom "news" sessions. Fact-boxes are included on each page. I really loved this one, though there's going to be a great discussion about whether to classify it as fiction or non-fiction.
Tuesday, 28 August 2007
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Loved this book - the fact that it was a true story and that Tahi survived and now lives at the zoo.
Great information in the fact boxes too!
This book is disappointing my son screamed for a good book he was very very sad and upset what a #$%@^$ waste of money.
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