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Libby Hathorn

'From Seagulls to the Somme': Margaret Robson Kett reviews six new picture books

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May 2016, no. 381

From a rosy-cheeked preschooler to a glaring nationalist, this survey of recent children's pictures books features characters for readers of all ages. Emerging and established Australian picture-book makers demonstrate the range of talented storytelling available in this genre.

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Chloe's Wish by Diane Chase & Jaleesa the Emu by Noal Kerr and Susannah Brindle

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April 2001, no. 229
Pam Macintyre reviews 'Chloe's Wish' by Diane Chase and 'Jaleesa the Emu' by Noal Kerr and Susannah Brindle and 'The Lenski Kids and Dracula' by Libby Hathorn

Lively and cheerful, these three books aimed at young readers are sure to persuade their potential audience that reading is fun, language can be powerful and magical, and life in books is more exciting than the lived version. What more enticing motivations to read can there be for those starting out?

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Rift by Libby Hathorn & Killing Darcy by Melissa Lucashenko

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June 1998, no. 201
Tess Brady reviews 'Rift' by Libby Hathorn and 'Killing Darcy' by Melissa Lucashenko

I am sitting at my home desk high up in the mountains overlooking the border ranges to New South Wales and then to the left, the strip of highrise, the Gold Coast, and the sea beyond. Hathorn and Lucashenko have both set their recent youth novels in an imaginary location not far from me. The sea and the hinterland is a territory I am beginning to know well and I have enjoyed exploring it a little further in my reading.

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