Lothian
Huge Deal: the fortunes and follies of Hugh D. McIntosh by Frank Van Straten
The authors of these four books use a narrative device common to much fantasy fiction: the notion of quest. Sometimes that quest requires a physical journey, and sometimes it involves searching for something closer to home, but the very process is almost invariably life-changing for the characters involved.
... (read more)Pictures Telling Stories by Robert Ingpen and Sarah Mayor Cox & Illustrating Children's Books by Martin Salisbury
The Natasha Factor: Politics, Media and Betrayal by Alison Rogers
Media Tarts by Julia Baird & Chika by Kerry Chikarovski and Luis M. Garcia
The Measure of Success by Ron Clarke & Cathy by Cathy Freeman (with Scott Gullan)
As Eric Hobsbawn points out in his autobiography, Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (2002), ‘the world needs historians more than ever, especially skeptical ones’. History, however, is not a popular subject in today’s schools. Three of these four books make attempts, variously successful, to engage young readers in a sense of the past. The other is a bizarre compilation of odd details, and could be considered an account of the history of certain sciences; it almost fits into the historical ambit.
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