USA Writer (born New York 1947) and Illustrator James Patterson, illustrated by Chris
Grabenstein Jacky Ha-Ha
Arrow NZ 2016 $19.99pb 364pp
ISBN 978 1 7847 5407 5
Themes: Funny stories/ Stammering/ USA family
life 1990s
Life isn’t all a bowl of laughs for Jacky Ha-Ha
although she likes to pretend it is. James Patterson has created a new and
quite vulnerable heroine in Jacky who sets out to write down for her own
children what life was like for her 26 years ago in 1990 in a family of six
girls with a mother serving as a staff sergeant in the Army in Saudi Arabia and
a father who is hardly ever home. Although much of Jacky’s memories are almost
over-the-top hilarious there is an underbelly of sadness and poignancy that
most readers will pick up on. The whole narrative is enhanced by the
on-every-page illustrations from Chris Grabenstein.
Year 5 up/ Age 9 up
James
Patterson has been the most borrowed author in UK libraries for the past eight
years in a row and his books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide,
making him one of the biggest-selling authors of all time. He lives in Florida.
THE SPORT OF READING
Cross your
fingers. Cross your toes that the weather improves tomorrow and all planes carrying
children from all around New Zealand will land without being diverted at Wellington
Airport in time for the National Finals of the Kids’ Lit Quiz to be held at National
Library Molesworth Street starting at 1pm.
See this
Blog on Sunday for some photos and the announcement of THE WINNERS who go
through to the WOLRD FINALS to be held for the very first time in New Zealand
in August. This will be as part of the IBBY Congress in Auckland. More later…
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| Southwell School, Hamilton NZ were the World Champions in 2015 |
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