Book
The book that made me
Audience Teens 14-17 years
Published 2017 by Candlewick Press, Somerville, Massachusetts
ISBN 9780763695491
Bib Id 920485
Copyright 2016
Edition First U.S. edition.
Description xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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ISBN
9780763695491 (hardcover) $18.00
0763695491
9780763696719 (paperback) $10.00
0763696714
Call #
028.9 B
Title
The book that made me
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information
2017 by Candlewick Press, Somerville, Massachusetts :
Copyright Date
©2016
Description
xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note
Includes index.
"A collection of 32 personal stories"--Cover.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 232 - 238) and index.
Contents
Shaun Tan asks, why do you read? / Shaun Tan -- A feverish desire to possess / Randa Abdel-Fattah -- Twelve reasons / Markus Zusak -- A short leap / Cathy Cassidy -- "What happens next?" / Will Kostakis -- The great sense of unease / Mandy Hager -- Hooked (and a bit unsettled) / Shaun Tan -- Thwack! / Fiona Wood -- Becoming human / Bernard Beckett -- Looking where I'm standing / Felicity Castagna -- This world is more than what can be seen / Ambelin Kwaymullina -- What the doctor recommended / Queenie Chan -- Of magic and memory / Kate Constable -- The big Scooby-Doo reveal / Rachael Craw -- Sweet dreams and social fails / Simmone Howell -- Every disgusting detail / Benjamin Law -- Challenging the machinations of racism / Jared Thomas -- Invested with enchantment / Alison Croggon -- It looks like a comic / Mal Peet -- My first reader / Ursula Dubosarsky -- In folded arms / Cath Crowley -- What would Edith do? / Emily Maguire -- Putting the world to rights / Catherine Mayo -- Beyond the influence / Ted Dawe -- A sense of resolution / Simon French -- Only white people lived in books / Catherine Johnson -- Set my senses alight / Sue Lawson -- Happy endings / Brigid Lowry -- You'll go blind: a cautionary tale about the power of reading / Julia Lawrinson -- Ingenious decisions / Sue McPherson -- James remembering / James Roy -- Seeing red / Jaclyn Moriarty.
Summary
Essays by popular children's authors reveal the books that shaped their personal and literary lives, explaining how the stories they loved influenced them creatively, politically, and intellectually.
Audience
Ages 14 and up.
Genre/Form
Essays
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