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Tiff And The Trout

by David Metzenthen

 

适合8-12岁儿童阅读，2004年6月出版，160页，ISBN:0-14-130657-2

 

内容简介：

Tiffany is a twelve-year-old who lives high in the Snowy Mountains with her mother. Her father and little brother live at the foot of the mountains. Tiff is learning to cope with her family’s new living arrangements, but her mother is restless. When Sian decides to move interstate where there is sun, sand and surf, Tiff has to make a big decision. Should she accompany her mother, leaving behind everyone and everything she knows and loves, or abandon her mother and move down the mountain to live with her father and Nathan? Where do her loyatlies lie? And isn’t it unfair that this decision should be foisted upon her?

 

Tiff realises that she’ll never be able to choose until she has experienced both options. And then she knows where her heart lies and how important a sense of place is.

 

Selling points

  • At last, a new book for middle-level readers from this award-winning author!
  • An insightful and touching exploration of the dilemmas and heartaches – and eventually joys – arising from a broken marriage.
  • Beautiful evocation of Australia’s alpine environs.
  • Combined sales of David’s four books with Penguin total almost 50 000 copies to date

 

Educational potential

·         Tiff and the Trout is a book that captures the experiences of a child caught between parents. It raises a wealth of relevant themes and is ideal for use in the classroom.

·         Themes include:

-     coping with change and its implications – within the family, from one home and one school to another, and from childhood to emerging adolescence;

-       relationships and friendships – the baffling intricacies of both, and issues of control;

-       a sense of place – how people are shaped and influenced by their environment;

-       personal judgement – how people may not be what they seem;

-     the responsibilities that go hand in hand with being given a choice – how this can be both empowering  and terrifying;

-      the impact of sport (in this case fishing) on the environment.

 

编辑点评：

In Tiff and the Trout David has taken an experience that is increasingly common to many children and families, and written about it with refreshing insight and touching warmth. Running throughout the story is the highly effective metaphor for love: trout fishing – which requires so much patience and persistence and understanding, and wherein the sense of loss experienced on releasing a hooked fish ironically coexists with the fish’s fresh lease on life.

 

As always, David’s perceptive and realistic depiction of characters is a real strength, as is his close linking of people and place. There is a wonderful warmth and tenderness in Tiff’s emotional journey to maturity. It is a story with a heart, and it made me cry.

 

 

     

作者简介：
David Metzenthen is one of Australia’s top writers for young people. His novels have been universally acclaimed and many have won prizes. Johnny hart’s heroes (penguin) was the winner of the ethel turner prize in the 1996 nsw premier’s literary awards and was named an honour book in the 1997 children’s book council of australia awards for older readers and shortlisted for the 1998 sa festival award for literature. Gilbert’s ghost train (scholastic) was named an honour book in the 1998 cbc awards and was shortlisted for the 1998 victorian premier’s literary award. Falling forward (omnibus) was named a 1999 notable book by the cbc, and it was shortlisted for the 1999 nsw state literary award and the 1999 vision australia library awards’ junior and young adult audio book of the year. David is also the author of the colour of sunshine, finn and the big guy, stony heart country, wildlight and the puffin aussie bites, fort island and the hand-knitted hero.

 

David’s work has been translated into danish (somer and sorenson) and italian (edizioni elle), and published in the uk (ginn) and the us (sundance).

 

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one night at lottie’s house

Max Dann

Illustrated by Stephen Axelsen

Aussie Bites系列书，2004年8月出版，ISBN：0-14- 3301160

 

 

 

内容简介：

When Arthur has to stay the night at Lottie’s mysterious run-down house, he makes sure he’s prepared for anything. However, the night turns out to be so scary that Arthur is forced to use his ghost-fighting kit – with unexpected results!

 

Selling points

·          Previous Aussie Bites by Max Dann and illustrated by Stephen Axelsen are Teacher’s Pest (over 25,000 copies sold), Bernice Knows Best (over 14,000 copies sold), and most recently Jason Prince (over 10,000 copies sold).

·          The Puffin Aussie Bites are highly successful with children, parents, librarians and educators.

·          One Night at Lottie’s House was originally published by Hodder.

 

     

作者简介：

Max Dann grew up in Melbourne’s western suburbs. He left school at fifteen to become a carpenter’s apprentice, but was sacked a few weeks later ‘because I couldn’t saw in a straight line’.  He has been writing since he was seventeen and his other children’s books include The Lonely Hearts Club (with Robin Klein), Adventures with My Worst Best Friend, Bernice Knows best (named Junior Book of the Year in the 1984 CBC Awards), Ernest Pickle’s Remarkable Robot, Horrible Humans, Dusting in Love and The Onion Man.

 

插画作者介绍：

Born in Sydney, Stephen has been illustrating for children since 1974.  Some of the books that Stephen has illustrated are: The Oath of Bad Brown Bill, Eucalyptus Christmas and The Racing Car Driver’s Moustache, (written by Trevor Todd), winner of the Critici In Erba award at the Bologna Book Fair in 1985. Stephen Axelsen has illustrated a number of highly successful Puffin Aussie Bites for authors such as Margaret Mahy and Debra Oswald, as well as Teacher's Pest and Bernice Knows, both by Max Dann.

 

 

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Duck Sounds

By James Moloney

Illustrated by Stephen Michael King

Aussie Nibbles系列，2004.6，72页，ISBN:0 14 330110 1

 

 

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This is a Nibble story with a difference!  It comes with instructions – to read this story you have to make a special sound.  Once you get it right you are ready to read the story, which is a delightful tale about how a small boy rescues a little duck.  Jock doesn’t want the poor little duck to be captured by the duck hunter and eaten – and he has to come up with a very ingenious plan to save his feathered friend.

Selling points

·          The Aussie Nibbles series was developed in response to the huge success enjoyed by the Aussie Bites.  It is pitched at a lower age range, for the five to seven-year-olds, but it still captures the same feeling as the Bites, with its strong plot-based stories, and its simple but appealing language for first readers.  There is a HUGE demand for interesting stories for this age level, and the Aussie Nibbles will go a long way towards capturing emerging readers and keeping them hooked on books for life.

·          Duck Noises has all the ingredients of a highly successful Nibble, plus a little bit more!  Readers have to try and make the duck sounds that Jock uses to rescue his little duck with!  It’s a very simple, delightful idea that will immediately appeal to many young readers.

·          As with all Aussie Nibbles, the clear, easy-to-read text design and wonderful illustrations from Stephen Michael King, make this a book that small children, from preparatory school to the lower grades, will find just right for their emerging reading skills.

 

Educational potential

·          Huge educational demand for interesting books for children of this age that will hook the readers and keep them interested in exploring new stories.  The Aussie Nibbles provide children with access to top authors and illustrators, writing for a difficult age level.

·          Teachers and parents show enormous interest in the Nibbles as the next step up from the school reader and use them to inspire and excite small children about reading and story-telling.

 

FROM THE EDITOR

Duck Sounds will be an absolute winner with small children.  Stories about chooks never fail to delight because this age level are so interested in farm animals, and this story has a delightfully simple plot and wonderful illustrations to get readers, teachers and parents hooked straight away.   Another great addition to the Aussie Nibbles series.

 

    

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James Moloney is one of Australia’s most highly regarded writers for children and young adults.  He has had many highly successful works of fiction published, and he has already had published a number of Bites and a very popular Nibble, Blue Hair Day, which was illustrated by Leigh Hobbs.  Duck Sounds will follow on from these other very popular titles.

 

Stephen Michael King is renowned world-wide for his picture books. He has illustrated many books and has been author/illustrator of 5 books including The Man Who Loved Boxers, which was published in nine countries and nominated on the American Pick of the List. It also received the Best Book Award by the Australian Family Therapist Association.   Several of his books have been nominated by the Children’s Book Council of Australia.

 

Previously Stephen has illustrated Aussie Bite Serena and the Sea Serpent and Aussie Nibble The Gorilla Suit.

 

 

 

 

CLAIR-DE-LUNE

by Cassandra Golds

108页，2004.6出版，ISBN：0-14-330000-8

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内容简介：

 

Clair-de-Lune is a lonely, silent child who lives in Paris with her cold, forbidding grandmother at the top of a very tall, very narrow, very old building. Clair-de-Lune’s mother was a famous ballet dancer who died onstage of a broken heart just after Clair-de-Lune’s birth, and she has never known her father. Clair-de-Lune has inherited her mother’s talent and ballet is the focus of her life until she meets Bonaventure, a mouse who has come to Paris to learn to dance. He observes Clair-de-Lune in her ballet classes, sees her sadness and resolves to take to see Brother Inchmahone at the mysterious monastery which is hidden in a secret fold of Clair-de-Lune’s apartment block. Through her visits with Brother Ichamahone, Clair-de-Lune begins to understand her sadness and to understand her dead mother and to realise that perhaps there are more important things in life than ballet.

 

Selling points

·                      The author writes well for this age group, and the setting is beautifully evoked.

·                      Ballet is a perennially popular subject, particularly for young girls.

·                      The mix of fantasy and realism is perfect for the middle-reader age group

 

Educational potential

·                      Issues of ostracism and bullying amongst girls is subtly introduced and deftly handled, ensuring that the novel does not become an ‘issues’ book, but provides plenty of potential discussion points in the classroom.

·                      Identity, self-confidence and parental expectations are handled sympathetically and cleverly, and will strike a chord with many readers.

·                      Themes covered in Clair-de-Lune include assertiveness, bullying, families, fantasy, friendship, identity, magic, relationships, self-esteem.

 

 

     

作者简介：

Cassandra’s first book Michael and the Secret War was written while Cassandra was in her first year at the University of Sydney and was accepted for publication when she was nineteen years old. Cassandra went on to complete a BA (Hons) in English Literature, then worked at the NSW School Magazine. Clair-de-Lune is her second novel.

 

 

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