Charlotte and the Monster

 

2025           

illustrated book, upper primary,  ages7-9,Beaseley Wendy,  Gatenby Hugh,     

Marty is a monster who's scared when he should be the scary one 

Charlotte is a little girl who cares about others. Will she and her friends, the fairies, be able to help Marty? And what about the boy who is spoiling Mr Clarke's Garden? Why is he doing that? There's a lot for Charlotte to sort. 

The story addresses themes of inclusion, otherness and kindness.

The text is eighty pages long.  It has severa ilustraions thatenhance the ext and show iut smening.

It uses a serif font with difficult ‘a’s an ‘g’s.  

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Natascha's Story by Gill and Ashleigh James

 2024           

 

Natascha is forever falling off the piano and getting sucked up by the vacuum cleaner.

She is the smallest of a set of Russian dolls and envies her bigger sisters as they have more detail on them.

The family acquire a new vacuum cleaner and this time it takes Natascha to another world where she has an amazing adventure.  This seems very much like what happens in The Wizard of Oz. So is it all a dream and related to the story the mummy is reading to young Alfred? It’s left to the reader to decide.

She finds herself being sucked up by the new even more powerful vacuum cleaner and then returned to the piano to join her sisters. Young Alfred remarks that she has lace on her dress, pretty shoes and a tiny bracelet that he’s never noticed before.

The book is 53 pages long. The text is double spaced and ragged right. It uses a simple font that has easy ‘a’s and ‘g’s. There over twenty illustrations that both add to and clarify the story. 

 

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