Anna Walker
Tohby Riddle’s Unforgotten (Allen & Unwin, $35 hb, 123 pp, 9781742379722) will be appreciated by aficionados of Shaun Tan’s sophisticated illustrated works and Riddle’s impressive books. This atmospheric book is allegorical and metaphorical, and the structure is cyclic. It begins and ends in the heavens; and gradually revea ...
Published in
December 2012–January 2013, no. 347
Stephanie Owen Reeder reviews eleven new children's picture books
Stephanie Owen Reeder
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
The latest crop of children’s picture books highlights the ability of this versatile genre to cover everything from the ever-popular animal tale, to sparkling stories about fairies, to introspective contemplations on the meaning of life.
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March 2011, no. 329