Max dons his wolf suit in pursuit of some mischief and gets sent to bed without supper. Fortuitously, a forest grows in his room, allowing his wild rampage to continue unimpaired. Sendak’s color illustrations (perhaps his finest) are beautiful, and each turn of the page brings the discovery of a new wonder.
The wild things-with their [...]
“It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time,” Milo laments. “[T]here’s nothing for me to do, nowhere I’d care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing.” This bored, bored young protagonist who can’t see the point to anything is knocked out of his glum humdrum by the sudden and curious appearance [...]
The story concerns 12-year-old Dennis, who lives with big brother John and their lorry driver dad. Mum has gone, and Dennis misses her terribly.
He enjoys watching daytime TV, particularly Trisha – one episode concerns a woman who’s found out that she’s having an affair with her own husband – and he loves playing football.
Dennis is [...]
Although a work of fiction, Secrets in the fire is based on the real-life experiences of Sofia Alface, a friend of the author.
The story takes place in Mozambique, which is in the midst of a civil war (1975-1992). One night, most of the village population, including Sofia’s father, are murdered by ax-wielding bandits. Sofia, her [...]
At the tender age of eight,
chimney sweep Tom Appleby
is convicted of stealing and
sentenced to deportation to
Botany Bay. As one of the
members of the First Fleet,
he arrives in a country that
seemingly has little to offer -
or little that the English are used to, anyway.
India lives in the lap of luxury on a posh housing estate. Her mum is a famous children’s clothes designer and her dad is top man at a top company. But India is far from happy with her life. Her uptight anorexic mother does little to hide her disappointment in her chubby offspring, and her [...]
How many times have you looked at a photograph and wondered what the story was behind it? Photographs indicate relationships within and among people and nature. Photographs document one’s perception of the world.
George Keane Henschler, or “Gee” as he likes to be called, and his granddaughter, Maggie, are the epicenter for all the stories in [...]