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Sara Acton

I Have a Dog by Charlotte Lance & Imagine a City by Elise Hurst

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August 2014, no. 363
Stephanie Owen Reeder reviews 'Good Dog Hank', 'I Have a Dog (an inconvenient dog)', 'Imagine a City', 'Snail and Turtle Are Friends', 'Poppy Cat', 'The Hairy-Nosed Wombats Find a New Home', 'That Car!',

In order to appeal to a child audience, picture books often deal with similar subjects or themes. To compete in the marketplace, they therefore need a point of difference – something in the artist’s style, the author’s approach, the design of the book to set them apart.

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Margaret Robson Kett reviews eight new picture books

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April 2013, no. 350

A pile of picture books to savour – what better start to the year? Experienced authors and artists are met again, and new favourites are found, in these eight books.

Margaret Wild and Freya Blackwood, wonderful book makers in their own right, make a special team in The Treasure Box (Viking, $24.99 hb, 32 pp, 9780670073658). A boy and his fathe ...