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Cicada
Shaun Tan, Lothian, July 2018, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg

Shaun Tan has done it again. Cicada is excellent. Although more distinctly a narrative picture book than some of his others, Cicada’s darkness breeds a... Read more
 
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Picture books

 

Duck!
Meg McKinlay, illus by Nathaniel Eckstrom, Walker Books, July 2018, reviewed by Michael Earp x

 
 

Wren
Katrina Lehman, illus by Sophie Beer, Scribble, July 2018, reviewed by Bronte Coates x

 

Younger readers

 

Girltopia
Hilary Rogers, Scholastic, July 2018, reviewed by Natalie Crawford x

 
 

Ottilie Colter and the Narroway Hunt
Rhiannon Williams, Hardie Grant Egmont, July 2018, reviewed by Holly Harper x

 

Young adult

 

Hive
A J Betts, Pan, July 2018, reviewed by Meaghan Dew x

 
 

Mercy Point
Anna Snoekstra, HarperCollins, July 2018, reviewed by Helene Ephraim x

 

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Interview

 

A quiet place: Katrina Lehman on ‘Wren’

Katrina Lehman’s picture book Wren (illus by Sophie Beer, Scribble, July) is filled with ‘fluid, rhythmic prose’ that ‘rolls off the tongue’, alongside ‘gloriously colourful’... Read more
 

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