Through my eyes series. Allen & Unwin, 2014. ISBN 9781743312551
(Age: 10+) Highly recommended. Sri Lanka. War. Heroism. Religion.
Surivival. When Malini is told by her father to run into the forest
with her younger sister and hide, she does as she is told. All the
villagers have been rounded up and herded to the coast where they
will be used as a human shield, to slow the advance of the Sinhalese
Army. Few will survive. It is 2009 and the civil war which has
devastated much of north eastern Sri Lanka after the withdrawal of
the British in 1948 is coming to a close.
Malini and her sister, Banni, must survive as best they can, refugees
in their own land, eating what they can find, travelling carefully,
hoping to find their grandfather's village many miles away before
the soldiers of either side find them. Along the way they come
across a group of three children also displaced by the war, and
Malini cares for them too, all the while feeling beyond her age of
fourteen. Their journey across Sri Lanka, exposes the atrocities on
both sides, the impact of war on the ordinary people, the reasons
behind the war. Above all we see the effect of such conflict on the
children. Malini and her family are Tamil, from the north, and have
been taught Sinhalese and English alongside their own language,
being encouraged to accept all faiths. The children they meet are
Sinhalese as is the girl who saves them from the soldiers, giving
the reader an insight into the feelings of both communities.
Another in the excellent series Through my eyes, Malini will
encourage students to view the unrest in other parts of the world
through the eyes of a person their own age. With the civil war
in Sri Lanka now at an end, readers will gain insights into the
effect of war on the ordinary household, village or community. There
is a timeline of the events in Sri Lanka since 1948, as well as a
glossary and web addresses to find out more information, while
others in this series are displayed at the end of the book. Highly
recommended for classes where discussion of other countries is under
way, or perhaps a literature circle is being undertaken using all
the books in the series, or a book is being read aloud, the easy
flowing text and appeal of the courageous main characters will
ensure kids are hooked from the start. Insights into the Buddhist
and Hindu beliefs of Sri Lanka sit alongside the themes of war,
courage and refugees.
Fran Knight
Celia and Nonna by Victoria Lane and Kayleen West
Ford St Publishing, 2014. ISBN 978925000603 (hardback). ISBN
978192000601 (paperback).
(Ages: 4+) Highly recommended. Some very apt books have come my way
in the last week or so and this is one of them. This gentle and
loving story of a little girl and her much-loved Nonna, and the
changes that occur when Nonna's memory starts to fail is so very
pertinent to our family at the present time.
It is difficult for little ones to understand that aging family
members cannot always remember things, or indeed that they may
change where they live. On Friday we celebrated my mother's 88th
birthday and at times it is tricky for the two youngest
great-grandchildren to understand why Nanny now lives in the place
she does, or why she doesn't remember everything. Celia loves
sleeping over at her Nonna's place. She always has a fuss made of
her and she and Nonna cook together and play special games, but when
Nonna starts to forget things, locks herself out of the house and so
on, Nonna moves to a special place where people can help to keep her
safe. There is no room for Celia to sleep over any more and nowhere
to cook but there is room to put lots of drawings up on walls of the
fun things that are special memories. In just the same way, Miss
Just-Turned-Five spends much time creating beautiful artwork for her
great-grandmother, just to make sure Nanny knows how much she is
loved.
It was difficult for me to read this without emotion because of the
intensely personal circumstances but this is a superb book to share
with little people who are facing changes in their family due to
aging, dementia or Alzheimer's disease.
The text and illustrations are simple, gentle and suitably engaging
for a young audience and the endpapers are truly gorgeous (many of
my friends and students know about my rapture over endpapers!).
Highly recommended for home and library shelves for sharing with
small people from around 4 and up.
Sue Warren
Phyllis Wong and the return of the conjuror by Geoffrey McSkimming
Phyllis Wong Mysteries. Allen & Unwin, 2014. ISBN 9781743318379
(Age: 9+) Recommended as a fun fictional fantasy for young readers.
Mystery. Adventure. Time Travel. Magic. Illusion. This is a
magical gem! The central character Phyllis Wong is a well-practised
conjuror/prestidigitator that, despite her youth, uses her
fast-fingered skills with sleight of hand tricks to entertain. Her
staged actions to overcome a class bully lead to school suspension
and ultimately a strange meeting in time with her Great-grandfather
who was himself a renowned performer of illusion tricks. Time travel
follows and almost coincidentally she becomes involved in a major
police investigation into a potential crime involving the first
folios of Shakespeare's play. Her ability to travel back in time
enables her to meet the Bard and prevent a major injustice.
One of the delights of this book is her connections to some quirky
adults and an extremely eccentric school friend.
This book is a highly entertaining narrative, with mystery,
adventure, time travel and Shakespearean history united with a
highly competent and independent female lead character who displays
amazing intellectual skills and organisation. Her friend, Clement,
is the ultimate bizarre sidekick, who adds a considerable comic
element to her adventures in time.
Carolyn Hull
One minute's silence by David Metzenthen
Illustrated by Michael Camilleri. Allen & Unwin, 2014. ISBN
9781743316245.
Highly recommended for both Primary and Lower/Middle Secondary. As
we approach the end of the year and Remembrance Day, as well as the
ongoing centenary commemoration of World War 1 and the ANZACs' role,
this powerful and deeply moving picture book will be a must-have for
your collection.
We are all aware of David Metzenthen's skill as a writer and now
combined with dramatic and poignant illustrations by Michael
Camilleri, this is a book that begs to be shared across many year
levels.
Beautifully told from both the Australian and Turkish perspectives,
Camilleri chose to depict the combatants, using Year 12 students
from the Sophia Mundi Steiner School as models, in contemporary
dress and using both genders. This has the effect of visually
demonstrating that ordinary young people were caught up in a bloody
conflict of extraordinary proportions.
The traditional 'one minute's silence' is used as the recurring
motif throughout the text as moments of huge impact are recounted
solemnly and with elegant simplicity. The repetition of
circular shapes and cogs connect to the passing of time in each
minute's duration. Among the many visually stunning illustrations
the double page spread showing the many small contorted bodies under
the dark ground, as the ANZACs depart is heart-stopping. It reduced
my normally boisterous Year 10s to complete stunned silence, such is
its profundity.
Camilleri's illustrations are finely detailed, and by rendering
them in monotones evoke the period of time - as does the choice of
the sepia tones such as those on the cover. This also conveys the
bleakness and despair of the Gallipoli campaign (or indeed any
conflict) and the intense emotions. The reader can easily empathise
with both sides in this desperate situation.
My boys were intrigued (naturally!) by the diagrammatic style
illustrations of the shrapnel bomb and the rifle. Though
clearly illustrated in the film/comic strip style action, the
shooting of a young soldier is subdued, though obvious, and hence
reduces the horror for younger readers.
In one minute of silence you can imagine sprinting up the beach in
Gallipoli in 1915 with the fierce fighting Diggers, but can you
imagine standing beside the brave battling Turks as they defended
their homeland from the cliffs above...
Truly a reflective and evocative picture book, One minute's silence
is, I predict, potentially an award-winning book for next year's
lists.
Sue Warren
Bubble trouble by Tom Percival
Bloomsbury, 2014. ISBN 9781408838778.
(Age: Early childhood) Bubble trouble is a very apt name for
this book. Rueben and Felix had always lived next door to each other
and they were best friends. They were exactly the same age, same
height (except for their ears), they were both left-handed and they
LOVED to blow bubbles. Really, REALLY BIG bubbles! It was a perfect
activity to do together until one day Rueben said, 'I bet I could
blow a bigger bubble than you'. And so the contest is on - with each
trying to blow the biggest bubble, building the most amazing
bubble-blowing contraptions. But as the machines become more and
more complex, the fun gets less and less. Even rules and judges and
spectators didn't help. All they could think about was winning!
Until one day.
Illustrated very gently in a lift-the-flap format and quite
different from his Skulduggery Pleasant work, (there's an interview
with him about his creations) this is a book that has many layers to
it. Each time I read it I thought of a new way that it could be used
in the classroom setting. Firstly, there is the maths aspect of
comparing sizes accompanied by the languages aspect of the use of
comparative and superlative language. Then there is the aspect of
how bubbles are made, why they are usually round, and investigating
whether the shape and power of the 'blower' affect the shape of the
bubble. There's the design aspect of creating a bubble-blowing
machine or something that will help them solve the issue at the end;
and throughout all, the concept of what friendship means. My review
copy was destined for a pre-schooler I know but I've decided to tuck
it into my teaching tool-kit instead. Stories which can provide a whole
day's cross-curriculum teaching are rare!
Barbara Braxton
Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormick
Hachette, 2014. ISBN 9781780622156.
(Ages: 12+) Highly recommended. War, Fanaticism, Refugees, Taliban,
Islam, Women, Education. Subtitled, The girl who stood up for
education and changed the world no reader can pass by this
book without recognising the young woman staring out from the cover.
Her face and the events surrounding her medical evacuation to
England were on every media report for months, and millions followed
her plight. Shot in the face by a fanatic in the Swat Valley in
northern Pakistan, while on her way home from school, she needed
emergency attention. Her book concentrates initially on the family
and her religion, her day to day life, her school and the increasing
imposition of extremist views in Pakistan. These views that women
should not be educated, that women were not allowed to leave home
without a male relative with them, and only when wearing a full
cover, came to the fore after the devastating earthquake of 2007,
after which some preached that it was a warning from Allah. The ones
who helped those affected by the earthquake were the followers of
the extremist Fazlullah, and they were able to promote their views.
As they grew stronger, fear bubbled through the community, TV sets
were destroyed, polio vaccines rejected, and radio used to attract
followers until many of their ideas became common usage in northern
Pakistan, with opposing people being beaten and killed by the
fanatics. But some spoke out against them, Malala's father, the
school principal amongst others, and Malala too became outspoken
from an early age, talking on the radio, and freely giving her views
on girls' education.
Calls to Pakistan's army fell on deaf ears, and it wasn't until the
Taliban started to be a murderous influence in Islamabad, that the
army moved to act. But it was too late for Malala.
This is a riveting read, not only because it tells younger readers
about this brave young woman and her fight against the tyranny of
fanatics, but also because it speaks to us all about taking a stand
against fanaticism, and coincidentally showing how easily fanaticism
can take a hold on a community. I was constantly reminded of the
rise of Nazism, and echoes of the rise to power of the IS in Iraq
today.
Education is the key to overcoming fanatics like this. We take so
much for granted in the west and this singular book reveals to our
sometimes overprotected students, what lengths people will go to be
educated, and what lengths some will go to prevent it happening.
This could be an adjunct to study alongside the many wonderful
novels set in the Middle East, the novels of Deborah Ellis and
Rosanne Hawke spring to mind. At the end of the book is a glossary,
a timeline of events in Pakistan since partition, a series of book
club questions and information about her current work. A map at the
start of the book sets the story in its place in the world.
Fran Knight
An interview with a stranger: Terry Whitebeach
by Fran Knight
Dubbing herself a 'stranger in a strange land', the current May
Gibb's Fellowship recipient, Tasmanian author, Terry Whitebeach, has
found that her recipe for writing in the quietness and solitude of
the apartment in Norwood has included visits to the Art Gallery and
Botanic Gardens, as well as the odd lunch. Today we met at Cafe Ivy
on Norwood Parade to discuss her body of work and its motivating
forces.
Terry's body of work includes two poetry collections, Bird Dream,
and All the Shamans Work in Safeway, an indigenous life
history, The Versatile Man, radio plays for ABC's Airplay,
as well as reviews and essays published in journals. With two young
adult novels also behind her (Watersky(1998) and Bantam
(2002) as well as two bilingual picture books, When I was a Boy
in Sudan and When I was a Girl in Sudan (2014)), Terry
is currently working on a novel for younger readers, a niche market
which is undernourished.
In this multicultural country, Terry has met and taught many
refugees in adult literacy classes. These people surely must be the
epitome of a 'stranger in a strange land', having to cope with a
different culture, language and ethos, often after many difficult
years spent in refugee camps.
Whilst working in adult literacy, she met her Sudanese colleague
Sarafino Enadio, and has worked with him to create four books. The
first to be published were a pair of bilingual picture books for
Sudanese as well as English speaking readers, with the aim of
Sudanese and Australian children developing a better understanding
of each other. These picture books depict the traditional life of
children in Sudan.
Sarafino's ten years in a refugee camp were the catalyst for a young
adult novel, Obulejo, Trouble Tomorrow, on which Terry and
Sarafino also collaborated, after visiting South Sudan together in
2012. In 2014 they published an account of Sarafino's life, A
Little Peace, a South Sudanese Refugee Story.
But Paper Chains is what she is working on while in
Adelaide. A novel for younger readers, it is the story of the
adventures of six sisters. As with all her novels, it began with an
imaginary conversation. This time between a set of sisters. When
Terry first 'overheard' the sisters talking to each other she felt
compelled to begin to write down their conversations. At first it
felt a little like eavesdropping, but Terry nevertheless continued
to listen in.
I asked Terry if she had any difficulties writing from a female
perspective, as her young adult books all have had male leads. None,
she explained; she was brought up in a family of six girls, so has a
rich resource from which to draw her ideas.
Although Terry was not forthcoming with many details of this new
book, while in Adelaide she will further flesh out the story she
feels she must write, of six sisters and their hair-raising
adventures, and the way they face and overcome difficulties together
and win through. The title of her new book, Paper Chains
came to her as an image of a string female figures joined yet
individual: its significance will become more apparent as the
narrative develops.
As an author concerned with marginalised and silenced or excluded
groups and individuals, speculation about the threads of her new
novel have tantalised me and I look forward to reading it.
Oliver and George by Peter Carnavas
New Frontier, 2014. ISBN 9781925059083. (Age: 4+) Highly recommended. Rivalry, Cooperation, Friendship. The
appeal of any book by Peter Carnavas is immediately apparent from
the front cover. His unadorned pictorial style grabs the attention
of the reader as his illustrations focus on the hub of the story to
be found overleaf. Oliver and George are on the front page, one, a
bear, engrossed in his book, while the other, a child with skates on
his feet, is demanding attention. Just who is Oliver and who George,
the cover demands.
Opening we find the boy, Oliver, ready to play, but George is still
busy reading his book. Oliver does a number of things to distract
George from his reading, throwing a paper plane and kicking his
chair, and George gets mad, but then the crossness subsides and he
continues reading his book. Oliver tries other things to distract
George, but all to no avail, until he reaches out and takes the
book. Then George erupts. Consequently a funny twist occurs which
makes everything right again.
This is lovely tale of friendship, of recognising each other's needs
and their private time, of cooperation and working together, and of
resolution. Parents and teachers alike will be able to draw the
readers into discussing a range of things about cooperating with
their friends, of not being annoying to get their own way, of
allowing other people some private space. Children will enjoy the
story on one level, but be equally accomplished at realising there
are lessons to be learnt. And Carnavas' delightful illustrations are
given an airing on the endpapers, adding another level of interest
to this wonderful book.
And George's total concentration on his book is a powerful image to
have handy when discussing reading.
Fran Knight
Whale in the bath by Kylie Westaway
Ill. by Tom Jellett. Allen & Unwin, 2014. ISBN 9781743318584.
(Age: 4+) Recommended. Picture book, Bath time, Whales, Humour. Sent
upstairs to have a bath, Bruno finds a whale has taken it over,
using his bubble bath and Dad's back scrubber. He loves the warm
bath water and all he needs to make things perfect is some krill.
But when Bruno goes to tell his sister and mother about why he
cannot have a bath, they do not believe him.
He goes back upstairs to tackle the animal, but each time he is
defeated by his logic and cunning. Eventually Bruno has a shower,
and readers will laugh out loud at the turn of events, as the house
does not have a shower in it. All the while, Jellett's hilarious
illustrations underscore the story, adding another level of humour
to a funny tale. His illustrations can also be seen in recent
publications, Santa's secret, and The gobbledydook is
eating a book.
Discussion about lying, about avoidance, of being believed can be
drawn from this engaging tale, as Bruno struggles to tell people
about his problem. Each of his family dismisses his tale as yet
another avoidance technique, until dad comes home. Bruno is relieved
that he seems to believe him, but even Dad lets him down. Many
readers will have experienced similar events and will eagerly
recognise Bruno's dilemma.
Very funny on many levels, this book could be used to encourage
discussion about avoidance techniques, bath time and telling stories
or lies. The whale in the bath could create great discussion
about the mathematical improbability of such a thing happening, of
size and shape, of volume, and of the whales in our environment. The
possibilities are endless.
Fran Knight
Kick with my left foot by Paul Seden and Karen Briggs
Allen & Unwin, 2014. ISBN 978174331344.
'I pull the sock on my left foot
I pull the sock on my right foot
I lace up the boot on my left foot
I lace up the boot on my right foot . . .
It's time for footy!'
This is a charming story of a little boy who loves his footy and can
do everything well with his right and left hands, except for when it
comes to kicking. When the tries to kick with his right foot, the
results are less than great. But kicking with his left foot is a
totally different matter! In a place where footy is an integral part
of life, being able to kick well is an important skill and there is
great excitement when his left foot kicking is the clincher.
Accompanied by illustrations that depict the emotions of both the
boy and his dog perfectly, this story really appealed to the younger
readers in my family who are struggling with left and right, as well
as with throwing and kicking. In fact, Miss 3 and a half immediately
went outside and practised with both feet to see which one worked
best for her. Many times the results were those shown in the
pictures but with practice she began to improve, and now has also
sorted out that left/right confusion.
The book is one of the Emerging Indigenous Picture Book Mentoring
Project a partnership between the Little Big Book Club and Allen
& Unwin in which six previously unpublished Indigenous writers
and illustrators will have their work showcased in four picture
books during 2014. Each creator has been partnered with a renowned
mentor in children's publishing including Nadia Wheatley, Ken
Searle, Nick Bland, Ann James, Bronwyn Bancroft, Boori Monty Pryor
and Ali Cobby Eckermann to share ideas, techniques and inspiration
for their first published work. The project has been funded by the
federal government through the Australia Council and it means that
not only will our cohort of children's writers be enriched but our
students will have access to authentic texts that will work towards
the understanding and harmony between our cultures that is at the
heart of so many of the Australian Curriculum outcomes. Even though
it is written for an early childhood audience, there is a lot that
offers scope for comparing and contrasting lifestyles and landscapes
that would enable younger students to continue the development of
their critical thinking skills. Even determining which code of
football is being played requires observation and justification!
Barbara Braxton
Alice-Miranda at camp by Jacqueline Harvey
Random House Australia Children's Books, 2014. ISBN 9781742757612
Recommended. This is the tenth in the incredibly successful
Alice-Miranda series. This is my first time reading an Alice-Miranda
and I have enjoyed the experience. Jacqueline Harvey places her
characters and series in the timeless void inhabited by
Milly-Molly-Mandy, The naughtiest girl in the school and the Chalet
stories. These are comfort reads of the highest order.
In this adventure Alice-Miranda and her friends go on a hastily
arranged school camp organised at the orders of Queen Georgiana, as
it turns out the camp is right next door to Alice-Miranda's father's
home. This has since become a retirement home for workers from the
estate.
Of course mystery and mayhem of a most enjoyable type occurs. The
author's visits to schools obviously correspond to 'research' and I
found myself chuckling at the way she portrays the teachers in the
book. I also admired the way that Jacqueline Harvey weaves in
aspects of previous adventures so that a new reader such as myself
can follow the back story.
I was taken by the sub-plot of the new girl Caprice and the subtlety
of her bullying of Millie. The issues this raises of trust with the
teachers and Alice-Miranda provide interesting moral lessons for the
young readership.
This is a lovely written book for younger readers, with lots of fun
and humour to be enjoyed. Well plotted, with acute portrayals and
characterisation, I can see why this is a very successful series.
Rest assured that the novice reader can pick up this title and have
no difficulty at all becoming immersed in the world of
Alice-Miranda, and will immediately seek to track down the entire
series and join the eager crew of young readers anxiously awaiting
the next instalment.
I will leave the last word to my Primary TL colleague Kim who says
'Alice-Miranda is a great role model for girls - a strong and
independent child with a beautiful heart'.
Michael Jongen
The Summer of Kicks by Dave Hackett
University of Queensland Press, 2014. ISBN 9780702253362
Recommended for readers aged 13+. Themes: Relationships; Family;
Friendship; Teen coming-of age. With a central character with a
burdensome name - 'Starrphyre', this book relates the love and
pain-strewn path of this teenage boy as he juggles new love and old
passion disastrously. Helped and hindered by his family and friends
- his mother, an on-air Radio sex and relationship therapist; her
former partner - a one-hit-wonder 80's band member; his sister, who
is dating the ultimate loser boyfriend; his Gran - who attempts to
predict the future; and his friendship group which is
stereotypically full of outcasts. The misadventures for Starrphyre
include starting a band with his friends in order to persuade girls
to see them as above-ordinary. Unfortunately Starrphyre and his
friends have little more than a disputed playlist. There is
certainly no great musical talent amongst their number, and a chance
meeting with a potential guitarist lands Starrphyre with a part-time
job in a record store selling old-time vinyls and an accidental
girl-friend. Accidents continue to litter his path, and kissing and
poor choices send him on the relationship roller-coaster. This is
not an unfamiliar plot, and is very definitely told from the point
of view of a young male suffering the early doubts of his role in
romance.
The author of this book will be well known to young TV viewers
because of numerous roles on children's television as a presenter
and cartoonist.
This is mostly an inoffensive tale (even with his Mother's unusual
occupation sometimes providing advice) and provides some amusing
moments.
Carolyn Hull
Snail and Turtle are friends by Stephen Michael King
Scholastic, 2014. ISBN: 9781743620236
Despite their differences, snail and turtle are friends who do
almost everything together. From their shared activities including
walking, running, hiding and being quiet together, they nonetheless
enjoy different foods, parts of the day and creative styles.
Although they prefer to go about things in different ways, they
accept one another's choices and enjoy one another's company without
question and, at the end of the day retreat to their shells, side by
side, to sleep. Theirs is an almost perfect friendship, lived in
harmony and based on mutual trust and respect.
Stephen Michael King's illustrations utilise his easily identifiable
cartoon like style with the colour palette containing predominantly
earthy shades of the garden plants and water. On the cover and
throughout the book is a shiny 'trail' showing where the snail has
travelled. Having already shared the book with a number of classes,
the children love following the path and tracing the trail with
their fingers.
This is a joyous and gentle story, simply showing the importance of
people who don't have to be exactly like us to be true friends.
Junior primary teachers will find this title to be a useful
discussion starter about friendship and individual differences.
Jo Schenkel
Princesses are not just pretty by Kate Lum
Ill. by Sue Hellard. Bloomsbury, 2014. ISBN 9781408824252
(Ages 3-5) Recommended. Princess Allie, Princess Mellie and Princess
Libby love dressing in beautiful gowns, having their hair done in
lavish styles, and being generally very pretty. The trouble is, each
thinks they are the prettiest, so it is decided they must have a
beauty contest to find out who really is the prettiest princess.
Luckily at this point the book takes a change in direction, as none
of the characters seemed very likeable. Suddenly, though, each
princess is faced with a problem which involves them putting another
person's needs before their own, and each steps up valiantly.
This book would provide a great starting point for many discussions
about stereotypes, selflessness and appearances. The illustrations
are colourful and comical, making it an enjoyable book for reading
aloud to young children. There are two other titles in the
Princesses series.
Donella Reed.
We were liars by E. Lockhart
Allen & Unwin, 2014. ISBN 9781760111069.
(Age: 15+) Highly recommended. Wealth and power. Greed.
Psychological injury. Truth and lies. Poignantly powerful and full
of suspense, this book takes the reader through the distress of a
major psychological incident to uncover the truth and lies at its
heart. The central characters are born to wealth and privilege in
USA, living in wealthy Boston and spending indolent summers on the
family island near Martha's Vineyard. The greed and self-focus that
hides underneath the impeccable outer veneer of lies, gives a view
to the world of aspirational perfection which is, in fact, far from
perfect. The reader is introduced to this world through the eyes of
the psychologically damaged teenager, Cadence, who is struggling to
remember her past. Her story and the unveiling of her 15th summer
lost in the fog of amnesia, is woven with fairy-tale and literature
stories of comparison. This weaving creates a beautiful association,
leaving the reader aware of the dark and light of the narrative in
the completed tapestry of We were liars. As is the case with
all good suspense stories, the ending should only be known by those
who are prepared to get to know the whole story and read the book.
This would make an excellent film script.
I can highly recommend this book for mature readers. It is
beautifully written, with a coming of age undertone, and also a
moral tale with an unstated but implicit criticism of the
consequences of great wealth within a family. I especially enjoyed
the simplicity of sentence structure at the end of many chapters.
This writing style choice is intelligent and perfect in revealing
inside the mind of the central character.
[There is a small section within the book with swearing that may
make this difficult for more conservative school libraries, but for
readers 15+, this language choice is not surprising in context.]
Carolyn Hull
