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Wake of the Invercauld (Shipwrecked in the sub-Antarctic: A great granddaughter's pilgrimage), Madelene Ferguson Allen

Exisle

Reviewed by Lindsay Wright (Courtesy of Taranaki Daily News)

Robert Holding, a 23-year-old English deckhand, was one of 19 survivors from the barque Invercauld of Aberdeen when she drove on to a reef in the Auckland Islands during filthy weather in May, 1864.

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Whanau II, Witi Ihimaera

Reed
Reviewed by Jim Tucker (Courtesy of Taranaki Daily News)

Why did it take me a month to read this? And why, now I've finished, am I at a loss to know what to write about it (a first in about 70 reviews)? I just don't know.

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Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak

Harper Collins
Reviewed by Amelia Bury

Never tell your mum you are going to eat her all up. Max does that in Maurice Sendak's 1963 classic, Where the Wild Things Are, and as punishment is sent to bed without supper.

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