Libby Gleeson, Author . Allen & Unwin $9.99 (181p) ISBN 978-1-74175-334-9
With timely immediacy, this novel highlights the plight of a family fleeing Afghanistan after persecution by the Taliban, narrated by 12-year-old Mahtab. Once her father determines that the family will immigrate to Australia, they embark on a...
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Libby Gleeson, Author, Armin Greder, Illustrator Tambourine Books $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-11293-6
Although this Australian import seems intended to empower its audience, it offers poor--even contrary--advice. An older brother describes his little sister, Jen, who's terrified of a neighbor's big dog. The parents make suggestions (including the...
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Libby Gleeson, illus. by Armin Greder. Allen & Unwin (IPG/Trafalgar Sq., dist.), $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-74237-333-1
Readers don’t see Thomas, a moody, dreamy adolescent, until the final pages of the book that bears his name. Instead, Greder draws Thomas’s old toys scattered across the floor—a globe, a kite, a ship, a lighthouse—all emblems of flight and escape....
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Libby Gleeson, illus. by Freya Blackwood, Little Hare (IPG, dist.), $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-921541-19-3
Australians Gleeson and Blackwood, who previously collaborated on Half a World Away, portray with sensitivity a small boy's ambivalence about moving to a new house. " ‘It's a very fine dwelling,' says Clancy's father. ‘It's too big,' whispers Clancy.
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Libby Gleeson, Author, Freya Blackwood, Illustrator Arthur A. Levine Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-88977-3
Gleeson's (The Great Bear) somber story of separated best friends builds up to a Jane Eyre moment. Louie and Amy have a special call for each other-""Coo-ee, Lou-ee"" and ""Coo-ee, Am-ee""-even when one is just across the room. Then Amy and her...
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