The final part of a series which started with 'A Different Dog', followed by 'A Different Boy', published by Old Barn Books in August 2018. 'A Different Land' continues to explore themes of family and displacement as our narrator seeks to find a home. Told with Paul Jennings empathy and gentle humour - and there is bound to be a twist in the tale!
The final part of a series which started with 'A Different Dog', followed by 'A Different Boy', published by Old Barn Books in August 2018. 'A Different Land' continues to explore themes of family and displacement as our narrator seeks to find a home. Told with Paul Jennings empathy and gentle humour - and there is bound to be a twist in the tale!
Paul Jennings is the author of more than 100 books, beginning with 'Unreal!' in 1985, and has sold more than 8 million copies worldwide. He is a Member of the Order of Australia for services to children's literature and was awarded the Dromkeen Medal in 2001 and the Children's Book Council of Australia Lifetime Achievement Award in June 2019. Many of his books draw on his early experiences as a child immigrant to Australia from the United Kingdom and his life as a teacher and speech therapist.
#ADifferentLand delighted me. How many novellas can encompass
themes of love, displacement, grief and integration in 115
perfectly-crafted, nuanced pages full of tension and
vividly-realised landscape? Wow, Paul Jennings!
*Alison Brumwell*
Paul Jennings does it again. Totally enthralling and full of
nail-biting ttension, this twisting-turning short book with its
themes of displacement, love, loss, grief and integrating into a
new community, and steamy, tropical illustrations by Geoff Kelly,
will likely be devoured in a single sitting, leaving your head
spinning and your heart in your mouth.
*Jill Bennett*
Adore the WHOLE loosely themed trilogy by @JenningsPaul and
deeply admire the way in which landscape is evoked so well in spare
writing, as is character.. depth of emotion...! Wow, a potent
reminder never to equate short as somehow being synonymous with
simplistic.
*Reading Consultant*
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