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A review by kellyhager
The Book That Made Me by Sue Lawson, Mal Peet, Julia Lawrinson, Queenie Chan, Randa Abdel-Fattah, Will Kostakis, Rachael Craw, Cath Mayo, Benjamin Law, Catherine Johnson, Mandy Hager, Emily Maguire, Simon French, Alison Croggon, Kate Constable, Simmone Howell, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Felicity Castagna, Jared Thomas, Jaclyn Moriarty, Fiona Wood, Judith Ridge, James Roy, Shaun Tan, Cathy Cassidy, Markus Zusak, Brigid Lowry, Sue McPherson, Catherine Mayo, Ursula Dubosarsky, Cath Crowley, Ted Dawe, Bernard Beckett
This is an anthology of stories from Australian authors, detailing the book (or books) most responsible for making them who they are as readers, authors and people.
This is the kind of book that every reader will be able to identify with. We all have books that we can point to that make us US. (Matilda is one of mine, as I'm sure thousands of others will agree.)
The stories are both incredibly familiar to me and incredibly foreign. I haven't read many of the novels mentioned, which is awesome (I plan to hit the library!) but the authors' feelings for them? I do know all of them.
Recommended.
This is the kind of book that every reader will be able to identify with. We all have books that we can point to that make us US. (Matilda is one of mine, as I'm sure thousands of others will agree.)
The stories are both incredibly familiar to me and incredibly foreign. I haven't read many of the novels mentioned, which is awesome (I plan to hit the library!) but the authors' feelings for them? I do know all of them.
Recommended.