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Deakin Newsletter November-December 2008Reviews written by Dr. Andrea Deakin
Christmas Books
Wilma is a keen gardener who wants to tackle something new. She has the answer when she goes to cut herself a tree for Christmas off the hill behind her house. What about the people who cannot do that? She will grow Christmas trees.
As she plans she realises that she will need help, and who better than little Parker who lives next door. The five-year old has helped her before, and he is willing. We watch them measure rows and plant sixty-two dozen trees – seven hundred and forty-four in all. Year by year they tend their trees, losing some to mice and some to deer, some to storm and some to ice, and some to moose.
Finally, now Parker is ten, they are ready to open their Christmas Farm. Careful tending means they have nearly six hundred left. One by one the trees go to families, some to a tree lot in the city, until it is time for Wilma and Parker to choose their own trees, order new seedlings, and wait for spring.
The story of how the trees are grown is wrapped in the story of a warm co-operative friendship. Barry Root's illustrations show the two working closely together, the trees growing in the magic of fireflies and in crisp winter snow. Above all the story shows what can be accomplished by string, scissors, shovels, 62 dozen balsam seedlings and the cooperation and loving care of Wilma and her young neighbour, Parker.
This is a carefully measured text, a simple spare sentence or two that accompanies a series of gentle illustrations painted in warm soft colours. It is the story of Jesus' birth, unadorned by angels and kings, the first few quiet hours shared by Mary and Joseph and three animals - a donkey, a lamb and a cow. It is a celebration of a family quietly bonding. As such it is a touching introduction to the Nativity for young children, a book which brings the basic simplicity of the Birth into focus for the adults who share the book with a child.
One wintry day a boy found a package on the doorstep. It bore a note, "Open now and enjoy the Christmas spirit early.” Inside was a little drummer boy, playing his drum. The child loved the toy and the drummer played for him at night when all was quiet.
One day the dog's tail knocked the little drummer boy into the trash can, and he was carried off. In danger after danger the drummer boy's playing rescues him from one difficult situation after another. At last he ends up deep in the snow in a graveyard. Here the boy comes, to put flowers on his grandfather's grave, and finds him. Rescued, the drummer boy returns with the child who, in a quiet Christmas moment, lifts the drummer boy up to the stable set out on the mantel where, in keeping with tradition, he plays for the Baby in the manger. This is a heart-warming delightful tale which carries the spirit of the season with gentle charm. Loren Lang's illustrations enlarge upon the text with wit and warmth, giving us a touching seasonal story. Christmas Books - Reprints
Janet Lunn's book is another very welcome Christmas reprint. First published by Lester and Orpen Dennys eighteen years ago (1990), it has been reissued this Christmas, with many newly created illustrations, by Tundra Books.
The story is set in 1800, and there is little money for Christmas celebration. The schoolmaster describes to the children the decorations, the Christmas fare, and the toys he has seen in the big city. Above all he describes a candlelit room, “the whole room was aglow. There was golden light even in the darkest corners."
Ten year old Lucy is inspired, she wants to make candles and bring the light into the house at Christmas. She and her brother, Dan, make plans for producing one hundred candles and dyeing them red is a formidable task. In the end Lucy insists on taking command, and almost creates a disaster. Then Dan offers up his Christmas penny to buy tallow, and the children work hard to produce five, wonky, red candles - a gift of light for their parents on Christmas Day.
"Ma smiled and smiled, and the whole room was bright with the light of one hundred shining candles."
This tender story is about the real gift of Christmas - a gift from the heart, something very special produced with thoughtfulness and care, a gift of love which is the essential gift of Christmas.
Any collection of poetry by Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark will be stimulating, a rebirth of memory for an adult, a world of discovery for the young. This Oxford Treasury of Christmas Poems is no exception. It is a delightful collection of poems that celebrate the birth of Jesus mingled with poems that describe the pleasures and traditions of the season - even snow.
Traditional and familiar – “Joseph and the Angel”, “The Twelve Days of Christmas”, are joined with Eleanor Farjeon's in “The Week When Christmas Comes”, Sandy Brownjohn's magical “Christmas Eve”, Jane Yolen's plea from “The Fir Tree”, and Peter Dixon's voices of little children about to put on the Nativity Play. There are over fifty poems to share and enjoy in a collection illustrated with attractive bright pictures by Nicolette Green, Clare Henley, Paula Knight and Mary Claire Smith.
This is a reprint of the paperback edition of 2000, the only change being new bright cover art. Picture Books
This is the inspired combination of two people who have a real ability to communicate with very small children. Mem Fox has written a text that, recited from year to year, will go into childhood's repertoire---a new nursery rhyme. Equally immortal will be Helen Oxenbury's delightful babies wrapped in an eiderdown, born in the hills, suffering from sneezes and each blest with ten little fingers, ten little toes, and all, I am sure, the recipient of three little kisses on the tip of their noses.
There are clever picture books, beautiful picture books, funny picture books, and picture books like this one that creep into the heart.
The Little Word Catcher is a gentle look at a grandmother's struggle with Alzheimer's and how it affects a family. The story examines a special relationship that has existed between Elise and her grandmother. Elise wonders where all the millions of wonderful words her grandmother knew have gone. At one time her grandmother had words to share with her. Perhaps, thinks Elise as she ponders, what has happened to her grandmother? Perhaps it is because her grandmother has given the words to her.
With love and growing skill Elise helps her grandmother to discover what she wants to say, and her loving approach means that “Grandma isn't upset that she gave me her words. And when I bring them back to her, she gives me a lovely smile...Grandma has been smiling that smile for a long, long time. But it never wears out."
Danielle Simard's thoughtful, sensitive text describes the relationship with subtlety and Geneviève Côté’s gentle soft-toned pictures capture the mood perfectly. Côté’s illustrations won this year’s Governor-General's Award for Illustration - French text. Picture Books - Paperback
Ruth Ohi has produced several picture books that appeal to young children, but her latest is a subtle blend of illustration and text which will not only appeal to her young audience, but also demonstrates for their parents, her delicate, and often very funny, link between text and illustration.
This is a simple text, but imbued with a sly sense of humour, a classic sense of comedy. The little creatures that the girl has fashioned from clay, live in the Popsicle-stick barn she has made. Unfortunately she has failed to make a door, so they have to rely on her to let them out. There is also Dog, who lives outside and who finds the barn fascinating. Unfortunately he drools.
Chicken and Pig manage to get out while Cow is left outside - at the mercy of Dog. How Chicken and Pig stage a rescue and make a good friend makes for a hilarious tale for little ones. Picture Books - Reprints
Phoebe Gilman died in 2002, but not before she had given young children a series of lively picture books, including the fine story Something From Nothing, which won the Ruth Schwartz Award and the Sydney Taylor Award.
Amongst these were a series of stories about the irrepressible Jillian Jiggs. All five of these are included in this treasury, along with instructions for making a Jillian pig, a play entitled The Chicken Princess, and a list of objects hidden in Phoebe’s illustrations.
Her illustrations were always fine comments on the texts, and both are filled with lighthearted energy. Here, in the Jillian stories, is the intriguing marriage of humour and the strong creative urge that drives the young Jillian.
One of the most loved of Shirley Hughes books for young children is Dogger. First published in 1977, it went on to win the Kate Greenaway Medal.
Dogger is the story of a soft brown toy which belongs to a little boy called Dave. We see how well he is loved and we are drawn into the whole family - Dave's older sister, Bella, and his younger brother Joe.
Joe and Dave go with their mother to fetch Bella from school, but, when bedtime arrives, Dogger cannot be found. The whole family takes part in looking for him, without success. It is not until they go to the school Summer Fair that he is found at the back of the secondhand toy table, price 5P. Dave only has 3P. Bella goes back with him to the stall, but Dogger has been sold to a little girl who will not sell him back. It is then that Bella, who has won a beautiful big bear, offers that in order to return Dogger to Dave. The love that runs through the family and which Dave expresses for Dogger and Bella expresses for Dave is presented in a beautifully understated text and the kind of expressive understanding of young children that Shirley Hughes always expresses so well. The children in the scenes - a vivid Summer Fair that brought back old memories, and the simple terraced house and garden where Dad, searchlight in hand, examines every corner for Dogger, are all real children you can see every day. It is a joy to see this new, large format edition in print. Also attached is a CD of the story read by Kevin Whately, known for the Inspector Morse series.
Barbara Reid is one of Canada's outstanding illustrators. Her detailed textured illustrations, worked in plasticine, are full of life and vigour, their detail extraordinary, effective and tactile. A new edition of her Sing a Song of Mother Goose includes fourteen favourites depicted with the same vigour and detail that we have grown to expect --- such as blackbirds springing out of the pie, the red flower dropping from Humpty's hand as he falls, and cracks on the wall. Watch for the sly grin on the clock's face, the cushions waiting should rock-a-bye baby fall, and the dish and the spoon sneaking away in the distance.
Not only is Barbara Reid's work clever in execution and packed with detail - it is also a lot of fun. Board Books
Really good, well thought out and attractive board that is truly set at the right level for little children are few and far between. It is not easy to produce a really worthwhile board book.
Here Tad Hill's Duck and Goose from his picture book are stars in a little counting book. Throughout he has kept the spirit of his characters alive. Goose with his apprehensive look and Duck with his questioning eyes make an amusing, if puzzled, background as other birds make ballet poses balanced on their feet, or stand, guilty and covered with blueberry juice, as another duck crossly examines his blueberry bush. Bright colour, simple lines and a gentle sense of the ridiculous, makes for a very attractive board book. Fiction
We are in the future. Some disaster has taken place in North America and now we have the nation of Panem. The powerful centre, The Capitol, is surrounded by twelve districts, each specializing in the production of different materials. Once there were thirteen, but one rebelled. It is now a wasteland. To keep the rest in line the rulers have devised The Hunger Games. Each year they require each district to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve to eighteen to take part in these games – a fight to the death shown live on television.
Katniss is sixteen; she has been entered several times, more than required, for if a teen enters willingly it means more food for their family. This year her twelve-year old sister is picked. Katniss steps forward at once to take her place. Her sister will have no chance, she, at least, has one advantage. She and a friend have hunted in the wilderness to bring back meat and collect edible plants to add to their families' diet.
To elaborate on the visual aspect of the games each pair has a group of trainers to devise costumes, a "look", develop the personalities, to turn their victims into attractive or interesting individuals so that they may gain advantages given by the viewing sponsors. What may make Katniss and her male companion, Peeta, the baker's son, more compelling is a love story. Soon they will be in the arena full of dangers beyond their competitors, and compelled to fight until there is only one survivor. It will add to the interest for the viewers if the young couple is at first trying to save each other, and then faced with one killing the other.
This is a compelling story, thoughtful, poignant, masterfully told, uncomfortably familiar, like an ultimate exaggeration of reality television. The heroine is totally believable and sympathetic, the action at times grim but realistic. It is a gripping commentary on our own idea of entertainment taken to a horrifying length.
Here Lies Arthur was shortlisted for the Nestle Children's Book Prize 2007; shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2007; and was winner of the Carnegie Medal 2008.
Philip Reeve's Arthur is no mediaeval king with his knights in gleaming armour nor his court in full glory at Camelot.
His Arthur is a sixth century Arthur, a bully who leads a group of thugs who look for tribute and lands, terrifying a small area of the West Country. He is fortunate in having as an occasional companion a bard, Myrddin, who is sure he sees something kingly in the man, and sets out to make a hero of him.
A raid on a wealthy farm and household and its subsequent burning is survived by a young servant girl, Gwyna. Myrddin finds Gwyna hiding in a river where he rescues her and makes her his servant, and eventually his accomplice. It is she who tells the story, Gwyna of the clear head, sharp eyes and common sense. When Myrddin needs a dramatic scene to add mystical power to Arthur as a leader, it is Gwyna who lies beneath the waters of a lake and offers Arthur a sword to seize.
Slim and plain she works well as an agent for Myrddin as a young girl servant, a boy warrior, good friend to many in the camp, a spy, a hero, and then a simple lass who becomes servant to poor Gwenhwyfar, a twice-widowed woman whom Arthur has married for convenience.
It is Gwyna's place as narrator to show how the magic Myrddin wields is largely sleight of hand and deception; how his hopes for Arthur are destroyed by the nature of Arthur's companions, and by the man himself.
Powerfully written, the book owes much to the character of his storyteller Gwyna with her clear-eyed evaluation of people and events. Her comments are also a comment on how much we want to believe the best, how we will allow ourselves to be believers in the power of Myrddin's storytelling, just as many stories from the recent past become official truths because we wish to believe.
Alina has always wished to be one of the chosen, those who are called to the Isle of Weaving. There a sisterhood works on the Tapestry of Life, weaving together the threads of individual lives. Delighted to be chosen, she begins a long apprenticeship of prayer, meditation and work in the fields and in the home, waiting to be called to the Tapestry room.
One day she is asked to take spools of thread to the weaving room. Left alone for a few minutes, she admires the striking tapestry and notices a red thread, broken. She weaves a strand of her own hair to tie the red thread back into the tapestry. At once thousands of other threads break, thousands of deaths.
Such a thing has never happened before, and at first the sisters are at a loss. There is only one thing they can think to do. Alina must enter that life and set things to rights. The only way they can see to do it is to kill the one who should have died, Prince Ranjan.
However when she is sent into that world Prince Rajan is a ten-year old boy and Alina's first act is to save his life. Appointed as one of his guardians, Alina is now caught in a very difficult situation – nothing is as straightforward as it seems in the Isle of Weaving,
How Alina adapts to her new situation and how her compassion, courage and wisdom help her solve the problem makes for thoughtful, richly-patterned, and intriguing reading.
One comment on the design of the book. Duncan Campbell is to be congratulated on the restrained and attractive cover, and the layout of the blocks. The book is a pleasure to handle.
The author, Linda Smith, sadly died in August 2007.
A boy lies in a deserted lane. He senses he is between life and death. In the distance he can just hear a voice, a girl's voice, saying,” I can't find a pulse.” He slips in and out of reality drawn back again and again by that voice until a massive pain, a journey through darkness, a girl's weeping, and somewhere an engine.
Will survives, but with an almost total memory loss, lying in a hospital bed with a strange man and woman holding his hands, trying to help him remember. When he returns home he is haunted by visions, tormented by strangers and their comments, and there is a strange child that keeps trying to tell him something.
Something has happened in this small town, something terrible that somehow he knows or senses. But what was it? What does he know that he cannot remember? Was that first accident just that, or something grimmer? He must have known something before it that he cannot recall now and it is essential that he does. Someone is willing to kill to keep something else quiet. Whom should he fear?
Once again Tim Bowler has given us a dramatic thrilling story for teens, one full of atmosphere and perceptible danger, and one impossible to put down. He uses the ordinary to achieve the extraordinary, leaves Will in a state of constant vulnerability and apprehension. Who can he trust? What is being hidden?
Marcus has been sent to spend time with his father's cousin Gaius in Rome. Wisely his parents had perceived his boredom in their small town and sent him off to learn a little of how the world works from his cousin Gaius, a lawyer, and buyer of elections on the side. When Marcus proves his skill in a small matter Gaius has put in hand, he is sent on a trip to, discreetly, try and find out what Cicero and Pompey are up to by engaging a young man called Spurinna. Marcus will meet Spurinna on the small ship he is taking, so he prepares for a long voyage by taking a host of scrolls of famous speeches for entertainment and instruction.
Well, of course, all goes wrong. Spurinna does not take the ship but Marcus' betrothed, Paula, who is in love with Spurinna, stows away on the same little boat, throwing overboard Marcus's scrolls and luggage to make way for her personal preference – Greek tales of adventure and romance.
It is certainly not the voyage that Marcus was expecting; but it is packed with storms, adventure, pirates, shipwrecks, disguises, all the elements of Paula's novels. That she copes so well must have something to do with her study habits!
This is an energetic and funny tale, even funnier if you compare it with Paula's texts. The characters are genuinely lively and entertaining, from the Greek Homer and the portly Captain with his great black beard, to poor Marcus, a hero despite himself, and a very battered ship. The delightfully topsy turvey vessel riding classic waves on the cover is a broad hint of what Jack Mitchell has in store for us – a lively reading and a good laugh.
Seventeen-year-old Julia and her friend Ruth have a plan. They will graduate, take off for college, and share an apartment in the city. Everything is neatly planned and the future will open up logically before them. That is, until Ruth makes a serious error of judgment. She becomes pregnant. It is impossible to approach Ruth's parents. Her father is a fundamentalist Christian - a man who forgets about loving-kindness and forgiveness in strict righteousness. Her mother shows sympathy in her manner, but is browbeaten by her father; the girls know there will be no support there. It will have to remain a secret and Julia will have to come through. Julia, the storyteller, begins each chapter with a quotation from her reading, hopeful that things will work out a bit the way they do in books - but life needs a little more practical approach - as she quickly discovers. A pregnancy is the driving force of the story, but there is far more than a teen pregnancy here. This is a funny, moving and realistic picture of the love the friends feel for each other - like sisters - and the faithful support and care the one shows for the other. There is a lot going on in this richly realized novel, and it is even more to the author's credit that there is as much laughter as tears and that the cast is so well considered and portrayed, human beings all. Fiction - Reprints
During the 60's Brian Wildsmith retold and illustrated five of La Fontaine's fables. These have now been collected into one complete volume with Wildsmith's richly-coloured, vigorous and witty illustrations. It is a pleasure to see these tales available again in his finely retold and stimulating versions.
Here are the animals lined up to watch the hare and the tortoise race. Along plods the tortoise while the hare eats the leaves in the hedge and is brought to a halt by the carrot field. How supremely orange and delicious they look! Past the sleeping hare goes the tortoise to a lively reception where even the sun wears a big smile.
Here also is the story of “The Rich Man and the Shoemaker”, “The Miller and the Donkey”, “The Lion and the Rat” (what a magnificent lion he is!), and my favourite, “The North Wind and the Sun”.
There is a sense of the 60's in colour and design, but Brian Wildsmith's work is uniquely his, and this is a delightful edition to give to young children or to enjoy for one’s self, for that matter.
I doubt that I need to introduce Ruth Stiles Gannett's book, it has brought so much pleasure to so many young readers. Accompanied by Ruth Chrisman Gannett's illustrations it has withstood the test of time to become a classic of children's literature.
Random House has acknowledged the 60th Anniversary of the tale with this very handsome edition, which also includes a brief note by the author, now in her 80's. Bound in red and gold, which frames the original cover, and handsomely printed, it will make a perfect Christmas gift.
Ruskin's The King of the Golden River was one of the memorable books of my childhood and, it appears in conversation, to have had a very special place in many other childhoods too. I can never understand the need to edit, shorten, or even rewrite many of these earlier tales. It seems a little insulting to the present generation, for surely if children could read them in the past so can children today who have a love of tales dramatically told.
So, with great pleasure, I announce that Ruskin's tale is in its original form. Here is the hard-working, kindly and thoughtful Gluck and his two brothers, Schwartz and Hans - villains you love to hate. Here too is Ruskin's wonderful character, South-West Wind Esquire. All three brothers get their just award in this dramatic and still engaging tale.
The illustrations, in black and white and soft colour, are by award-winning Bulgarian artist Iassen Ghioselev. These are fine dramatic pictures, totally in keeping with the character of the book. The book itself is handsomely produced in blue and gold binding and gold-tipped pages - a production worthy of such a dramatic and enchanting old tale.
Tom's Midnight Garden, a classic of 20th century children's literature, was first published in 1958. It won the Carnegie Medal, and has been constantly in print over the last fifty years.
When his brother develops measles, Tom is packed off to stay with his uncle and aunt. Childless, and not very perceptive, they do not know quite how to deal with him, apart from giving him good basic care. Alone and lonely, Tom wanders downstairs one night when he hears the clock strike thirteen, and discovers a garden and a lonely girl with whom he makes friends, but who seems to grow older every time he meets her. No one would believe what has happened, apart from his brother Peter in whom he confides and who believes and understands him.
Re-reading the book now I found it as engaging and satisfying as when I first introduced it to classes all those years ago. This edition, with the original format and illustrations as the first edition, is as attractive and mysterious as ever and I am sure children today will enjoy it as much as children did in 1958. Non-Fiction - From the Adult List
Enjoyment of Eats, Shoots and Leaves has spread far and wide, caused justification, erudition, apoplexy, gales of laughter, sighs of self-content and has woken up the slothful punctuation of many.
Penguin has now an illustrated edition which only adds emphasis to the fun and underlines the punctuation advice. This book is a good gift for the teen with a love of language and for many an English specialist who will find in it both pleasure and copious examples for classroom use!
The many illustrations, featuring the panda of the title, underline, comment on, and emphasize in a hilarious and memorable way. Enjoy!
The records of Voyages of Discovery would not have been complete without the work of the artists aboard, whose business it was to document the new flora and fauna found in the newly discovered lands. Many of the over 500,000 superb drawings and paintings are kept at the Natural History Museum in London. The museum is one of the world's most important centres and Voyages of Discovery presents much of the illustrative material from the most significant voyages of the last 300 years. Sir Hans Sloane's voyage to Jamaica provided drawings of many plant specimens, including cocoa. A Cadbury chocolate wrapper from the 19th Century which credits Sir Hans Sloane with the recipe for milk chocolate will catch young eyes. A beautiful series of illustrations depicting butterflies and exotic insects records Maria Sybilla Marian's journey to Surinam in 1699. Matthew Flinders was accompanied by Ferdinand Bauer, considered one of the finest natural science artists, on his mapping of Australia, and there are exquisite illustrations of the plant and animal life he viewed there. Ten voyages in all are covered in a book which celebrates the beautiful and informative work of the artists who accompanied these voyages and who took such pains to accurately depict the flora and fauna they encountered. The book should appeal to those of all ages who are interested in natural science and art alike. Apart from its particular beauty, the text would be a valuable addition to any library. Non-Fiction
This atlas investigates and describes the travels of those who set out to find new places and sail fresh seas throughout known time. The very early migrations of mankind found fertile valleys where agriculture could develop; but man has restless feet. From the Egyptians to the Phoenicians and Greeks, men set out to find new trading partners. Commerce prompted journeys along the Silk Road and Rome expanded her borders. Vikings found Greenland and set foot on North America, and Marco Polo made his journey to the Far East.
Explorers of every continent are tracked; their stories are told and copiously illustrated with maps, photographs, and reproductions of drawings and paintings. The text is clear, informative, and highlighted with interesting detail about the lives and adventures of the explorers it examines - from the Polynesians who tracked the Pacific to Moon missions and the probes that reach out into the Solar System.
Apart from its value in a classroom, this is a book to capture the imaginations of young would-be explorers, as well as the imagination of their elders. AwardsCarnegie Medal 2008
Kate Greenaway Medal 2008
Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction
Governor-General's Awards: Children's Literature - Text
Governor-General's Awards: Children's Literature - Illustration
Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award
Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction
TD Canadian Children's Literature Award
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