The River Kings
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Mother Goose Comes to Cable Street (Kestrel/Puffin), a collection of nursery rhymes chosen by Rosemary Stones and Andrew Mann, and illustrated by Dan Jones is featured on our cover this month. See Editor's Page for more.
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As an historical novel for those interested in activities or the River Murray in Australia at the turn of the century -'yes! As gripping adventure story - no! The characterisation is flat and static. So black and white are the characters, that their actions and subsequent events are totally predictable. The vocabulary and idioms are difficult. I suspect most teenage readers would not get far. Unless they were interested in Australian history!
