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new "Notes" (Children's book reviews)
The latest edition of "Notes from the Windowsill" is now available at http://www.armory.com/~web/vol11.no5.html Reprints include _The Color Kittens_ and the first two Trixie Belden mysteries. New book reviews include _Hitler's Daughter_, an Australian prize winner that couldn't have been published here at a better time... -- "I like books... I mean some of them. I don't like the kind that gives you the feeling they're trying to improve your mind. I like the kind that tells you things you already almost know." -- _The Mummy Market_ Terry Pratchett strikes again: http:www.armory.com/~web/vol11.no5.html |
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Jackie French - was: new "Notes" (Children's book reviews)
Wendy E. Betts wrote in article
.. . The latest edition of "Notes from the Windowsill" is now available at http://www.armory.com/~web/vol11.no5.html New book reviews include _Hitler's Daughter_, an Australian prize winner that couldn't have been published here at a better time... -- I haven't read Hitler's Daughter yet - thanks for the review, but I'd like to say that I am quite an admirer of Jackie French, the author. First book of hers I bought - many years ago - as called something like "Organic Gardening"! When I bought a collection of YA SF stories of hers called _Alien Games_ (which blew me away), I didn't realise it was the same author. She's prolific, covering a range of ages & genres. Mostly those of hers I've read are SF. Although the ISFDB only lists one title of hers (_Somewhere Around the Corner_ which I must read - a time slip novel for teens), she's also written: .... a series of post-holocaust books for upper primary children, the Children of the Valley series, which I like a lot (_The Music from the Sea_, _The City in the Sand_, _The House of a Hundred Animals_, _The Metal Men_ & a 5th that I haven't read) .... a new YA (or _mature_ teen) series of SF mysteries: _In the Blood_ and _Blood Moon_, so far. These are set in a future society where the cities are sophisticated & technologically advanced (& probably regimented) & the country dwellers live a variety of alternative lifestyles. I thought her explorations of "what's a successful family unit / community" very thought-provoking in these 2 books, but the mysteries/solution process didn't quite gel for me. (Still, I will buy the next one when it comes out.) .... _Tajore Arkle_ - a quest / coming of age fantasy that I was impressed with. (for teens). .... something called "Cafe on Callisto" which won an Aurealis Australian SF award for Childrens short fiction (ages 8 - 12) in 2001, according to ISFDB. These are her web sites: http://www.jackiefrench.com/kidsbooks.html and http://www.harpercollins.com.au/jackiefrench/ (page at [one of] her publishers) (Note: _How the Aliens from Alpha Centauri Invaded my Maths Class and Turned Me Into A Writer_ is a book about writing, aimed at teens. "make it fat, make it thin, make it fat again") Jackie appears to be quite a character - she lives in the country (which I'm sure is why the backgrounds in her SF stories seem so plausible) - and also appears on Australian TV on occasion, in some of our lifestyle programs. Jane |
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