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Naked Bunyip Dancing
By Herrick, Steven
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-1-59078-499-0
- Publisher
- Front Street
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2008
Gr 4-6 Herrick follows one year in an Australian classroom with a nerdy, hippie, caring, and unconventional teacher. Told in multiple voices, including those of J-man the rapper, Jason the good kisser, Peter the boy with the talking bottom, and Emily the ballerina, the novel captures the humor and unpredictability of 11- and 12-year-olds. Mr. Carey fosters a sense of community in which all of his students are encouraged to find out who they are and what they're good at. The children suggest cocurricul...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2008
This series of poems adds up to a portrait of a good-natured Australian sixth-grade class as it moves through the first months of a new school year. Herrick casts his impressionistic pieces in the voices of the students and their teacher, the Bob Dylan-singing, bell bottoms-wearing Mr. Carey. In Herrick's deceptively simple poems, even those that concern familiar kidstuff (annoying siblings, stage ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2008
Herrick's impressionistic poems add up to a portrait of a good-natured Australian sixth-grade class and their Bob Dylan–singing, bell bottoms–wearing...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
