The Children Who Loved Books
Friday 15 February 2013
Author: Peter Carnavas
Illustrator: Peter Carnavas
Publisher: New Frontier
SquiggleMum’s comments:
Pete is a friend and colleague. He continues to go from strength to strength with New Frontier, producing stories full of warm and sensitive characters. In The Children Who Loved Books, he challenges the notion that “stuff” makes us happy. The two children in the story, Angus and Lucy, don’t have very much – but with books and each other they have pretty much everything they need.
Recommended for:
- Lower primary
- Family reading, followed by discussion about wants vs needs
- Community story telling, particularly in lower socio economic areas
Rating:
*I received a complimentary review copy courtesy of New Frontier publishing
Nice to see you’re blogging again Cath. When I won a book voucher last year this was one of the books we purchased and it’s one of our favourites.
We met Peter at a library session where he was teaching about writing and illustrating with the kids – he was amazing and the girls came away inspired to write and illustrate their own stories – fantastic! This is an awesome book.
Pete does quite a lot of sessions with kids. Love seeing the kids’ illustrations at the end of it!
Thanks Rach