Philip Pullman(Penguin) For his Grimm Tales for Young and Old, Philip Pullman has selected fifty of his favourite tales and has rewritten them, and brought them up to date, in language at least.Pullman is no stranger to spinning his own versions of fairy and traditional tales. No doubt readers will be familiar with his Aladdin, …
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Bernard Beckett(Quercus) Stuck in a car wreck, upside down, gravely injured, Tristan and Grace are staring at death, hanging on to the faint hope that when the sun rises, someone will notice them. Fate has brought them together one final time, after doing so time and time again throughout their lives. As they fight for …
The Rights of the Reader
Daniel Pennac with illustrations by Quentin Blake, translated by Sarah Ardizzone (née Adams) (Walker books) Parents, teachers, librarians,please on no account use these pages as an instrument of torture. These words of caution from the author at the very beginning of the book set the tone of one of my most favourite books. Daniel Pennac is a bestselling French …
Forbidden
Tabitha Suzuma(Definitions) Lochan is an extremely intelligent and sensitive 17 year old boy who has a hard time imteracting with others outside of the family coccoon. Maya is a pretty and sensible 16 year old girl, who is popular at school. They are brother and sister. At home they are also surrogate parents to their three …
Tender Morsels
Margo Lanagan(David Fickling Books) Teenage mother Liga escapes to her own alternative world after enduring unspeakable cruelties at the hands of her father first then a gang of town boys.The world she escapes to is a mirror image of the one she comes from apart from all the cruel and evil people from her village …