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Scoop Review of Books » Road Trip (With Kids)
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Road Trip (With Kids). December 4, 2014. Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Long Haul. By Jeff Kinney (Puffin Books, $17.99). Reviewed by Ruth Brassington. I reviewed last year’s Wimpy Kid issue. When someone gave it to me for my birthday. I waited this year, but it was my hard luck that I didn’t get this new one as a present. In. Or shall we visit a pet cemetery? As for me, well, I might be just a bit jaded by these Wimpy Kids, and I don’t think I’ll review any more of the series. But then I’m not a kid. Sarah Ja...
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Scoop Review of Books » SRB Picks
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Archive for the 'SRB Picks' Category. What Norman Kirk Means Now. May 03rd, 2015. The Mighty Totara: The Life and Times of Norman Kirk. By David Grant (Random House, $44.99). Reviewed by Max Rashbrooke. There is much in David Grant’s biography of Kirk, The Mighty Totara. Read more ». July 09th, 2014. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. By Elizabeth Kolbert (Bloomsbury, $37). Reviewed by John Lang. Very few of us ever feel compelled to really comprehend geological deep time. Why should we? The ide...
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Scoop Review of Books » Penguin doing the business
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Penguin doing the business. April 14, 2010. PENGUIN TO LAUNCH GLOBAL BUSINESS BOOK IMPRINT. Portfolio Penguin, already successful in the US, to roll out in the UK,. Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa. Penguin has recruited a dedicated Communications Manager, based in London, to create national and global publicity and marketing campaigns. Richard Lennon is currently sales director for Dow Jones Consumer Media, where he works on titles including The Wall Street Journal Europe, Finan...
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Scoop Review of Books » The new anti-hero
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March 11, 2014. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck. By Jeff Kinney (Puffin Books, $17.99). Review by Ruth Brassington. Is the Wimpy Kid the most famous anti-hero of our children’s day? What happened to Superman/Clark Kent? Neither comics nor novels, the. Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Books this is the eighth is a series lovingly created by self-confessedly failed newspaper cartoonist Jeff Kinney. Perhaps because it was launched on my birthday in November, someone thought. Comments feed for this post. NZ phone marke...
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Scoop Review of Books » Children’s Books
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Archive for the 'Children’s Books' Category. Author Q&A: Nikki Slade Robinson. June 12th, 2016. On 8 June, the finalists in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Were announced, and among them is a longtime Scoop Review of Books reviewer, Nikki Slade Robinson, for her children’s picture book The Little Kiwi’s Matariki. Photo by Neil Hutton. Following is a Q&A with Nikki about her life, inspiration and work:. Where were you born? Where do you live now? In paradise, near Ōpōtiki. There...
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Scoop Review of Books » Paul and Kanye: Stating the Obvious
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Paul and Kanye: Stating the Obvious. January 6, 2015. The internet gag ‘Who is Paul McCartney, and why is Kanye West collaborating with him? 8217; has made the news. I thought it was kinda funny when I first read it, though I didn’t think it was anything other than a joke then, and I still don’t. What isn’t so funny though, is the predictable but wearisome outpouring of anti-Kanye hogwash polluting the message boards in the last few days. Gee, anyone see a pattern emerging here? Maybe, a little, yes he d...
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Scoop Review of Books » Poems
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Archive for the 'Poems' Category. September 15th, 2015. By Vaughan Rapatahan (ASM/Flying Island Pocket Series). Reviewed by Maris O’Rourke. Read more ». September 21st, 2014. Federico Garcia Lorca. Illustrations by Julian Bell; Translated by Peter Bush (Serif 2013, $29). Reviewed by Ruth Brassington. Read more ». Verse Lost and Found. September 15th, 2014. By Emily Dobson (Victoria University Press, $25). Reviewed by Vaughan Rapatahana. This is a somewhat eclectic and often uneven second collection from ...
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New Publication by Peter Alsop: Hand-coloured New Zealand. August 7th, 2016. In this beautiful publication, Peter Alsop celebrates the iconic photography of Whites Aviation. The Photographs of Whites Aviation. Format: Hardback with jacket. Size: 305 x 276mm. Publication date: November 2016. Publisher: Potton and Burton. Every single photo coloured by hand? Also presents New Zealand’s first published collection of hand-coloured photography, and the most extensive published collection of such photography i...
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