When an older brother discovers that he has power by frightening the heck out of his younger sister, the stage is set for drama and a denoument. Stella Rosa hears that her Nana Lupin, whom she had never met, was coming to visit so her brother Simon invents a scary story of the 'were-nana' who has whiskers that scratch your skin, fingernails that dig into you and friends that travel on witch's brooms. ... Indeed it is a dark and thickly coated figure that greets Stella Rosa at the airport but it is also a frightening revelation that puts Simon in his place. ...Highly recommended.
A STARRED REVIEW (outstanding book of its kind as recommended by the reviewer) by John McKenzie, University of canterbury in READING TIME (Children's Book Council of Australia Magazine.
The Were-Nana was 'highly recommended' by reviewer Margaret Kedian in the November 2008 issue of Magpies Magazine, and I was also reviewed by John McIntyre on Radio New Zealand on Friday October 10. It is here :-http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/national/ntn/2008/10/10/childrens_book_review_with_john_mcintyre
It is specially exciting because he figured my eastern european background and saw the influence of the fairytales I grew up on. I had a steady diet of Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen as a child - an amazing collection of stories that captured the darkness and light of human nature and really fired up my imagination. I also got a buzz out of hearing that the famous singing sisters, Helen and Margaret Medlyn, interviewed before the book review session liked the book too.
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