Facebook Twitter Instagram
    Reading Time
    • Home
    • Reviews
      • Highly Recommended
      • CBCA Short Listed
      • Early Childhood Books
      • Younger Readers
      • Intermediate Readers
      • Older Readers
      • ANZAC books
      • Great Read Alouds
      • Information Books
      • LGBTQIA+
      • Picture Books
      • Professional Development
    • Interviews
    • Suggestions
    • News
    • Meet The Review Team
    • Contact Us
    Reading Time
    You are at:Home»News»Judges Comments on the Winner and Honour Books – OLDER READERS

    Judges Comments on the Winner and Honour Books – OLDER READERS

    0
    By Admin on August 15, 2014 News, Older Readers

    WINNER – BOOK OF THE YEAR: OLDER READERS

    wildlifeWOOD, Fiona: WILDLIFE
    Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781742612317, 369 pages

    Three very different teenagers find out about themselves and some of the big questions of life during their school’s outdoor education term. Life, death and sex are the hefty themes of this book and they are handled brilliantly with honest and authentic teenage voices, as the characters reveal not quite all through writing in their daily journals. The setting in the wilderness campus of a school is a wonderful platform to showcase the difficulties and issues arising from living so closely together along with relationship dynamics. There is a clever use of intertextuality using Othello parallels to highlight betrayal masked as friendship as well as the isolation of the physical environment.

     

     

    HONOUR BOOKS

    NEAR, Allyse: FAIRYTALES FOR WILDE GIRLSfairytales for wilde girls

    Random House, ISBN: 9781742758510, 432 pages

    Isola Wilde sees things differently to most, as might be expected when one is protected by ghosts, and lives next to a magical wood. From the opening pages, the reader is carried away into Isola’s world. This suspenseful and intricate story of whimsy and darkness is full of glorious intertextuality. The text is woven together in a fresh intelligent combination of words to balance magic and realism to successfully explore the themes of grief, love and friendship. This is an emotional story that combines history with mystery and a dash of romance, with twists that will keep the reader guessing beyond the thought provoking last page.

     

     

    ZORN, Claire: THE SKY SO HEAVYsky so heavy    

    University of Queensland Press, ISBN: 9780702249761, 304 pages

    Everything changes for Fin one morning when he wakes and finds snow everywhere. There is no power, no phone and no parents. Left to look after his younger brother Max, Fin must find a way to survive in this original post apocalyptic novel set in changing rural and urban landscapes. Social certainties change as Fin struggles to negotiate a way through to safety and security. Characterised by rising tension, vivid world building and fluid language, this stunning novel engages the reader right from its gripping sequence. Fin’s journey puts the spotlight on human relationships under stress. The moral and ethical dilemmas he faces are not sensationalised or glossed over. The gradual disappearance of Fin’s known world is realistic and very moving. This novel is set apart by its impressive understated layering of social issues.

    Judges Report

    Related Posts

    Dirt Circus League

    Dark Rise

    Find Your Kindred Spirits

    Leave A Reply Cancel Reply

    This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

    • Themes
    • Curriculum
    Action adventure Airplanes Alphabet Anxiety autism Bullying CBCA Awards Coming of age Dystopian emotions family fantasy friendship grief Historical humour magic Mystery Post apocalyptic Readers Cup reluctant readers school Sci-Fi series of books siblings Sport Starting school Teacher Notes
    ANZAC Australian animals Australian history Biography Culture & Diversity Disabilities First Nations Geography health Humanities mental health Poetry Reconciliation resilience Science STEM Stolen Generation sustainability Wordless books



    Recent Comments
    • Cherie on Elephant Island
    • Patricia Tilton on Freddy the Not-Teddy
    • Jilanne Hoffmann on Freddy the Not-Teddy
    • Penelope Pratley on The Secret of Sapling Green
    • Emily Flint on Walk of the Whales
    Recent Posts
    • Enough Love?
    • Wonderful Shoes
    • A Human for Kingsley
    • Dirt Circus League
    • Dark Rise
    Recent Comments
    • Cherie on Elephant Island
    • Patricia Tilton on Freddy the Not-Teddy
    • Jilanne Hoffmann on Freddy the Not-Teddy
    • Penelope Pratley on The Secret of Sapling Green
    • Emily Flint on Walk of the Whales
    © Copyright 2021 The Children’s Book Council of Australia - All rights reserved

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.

    Posting....