Meredith Costain
Auteur de Double Dare You
A propos de l'auteur
Meredith Costain is an Australian children's author, born in 1955. She is the literary editor of national children's magazines, Comet, Explore and Challenge. Her awards include the Mary Grant Bruce Story Award and the Aurealis Convenor's Award. Her work includes Doodledum Dancing, illustrated by afficher plus Pamela Allen; Penguin is Bed Tails, illustrated by Mitch Vane; and her latest, book 8 in the Ella Diaries Series and a bestseller, Worst Camp Ever!, illustrated by Danielle McDonald. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Séries
Œuvres de Meredith Costain
You Wouldn't Want to Be an 18th-Century British Convict!: A Trip to Australia You'd Rather Not Take (2006) 74 exemplaires
I Use Energy 2 exemplaires
Dangerous Jobs 2 exemplaires
Meet an Astronaut (SUPERSTARS EARLY READER 1) 2 exemplaires
The Aztecs 2 exemplaires
The Search of the Yeti 1 exemplaire
Ellas Welt - Ballett oder Flickflack?: Band 2 1 exemplaire
No Universo das Garotas. Arrasada 1 exemplaire
Winter Wonders (Ella Diaries Super Special #1) 1 exemplaire
Being Active is Fun 1 exemplaire
Ella Diaries Journal 1 exemplaire
Magic Reader 53: Something's Missing (Gr.5) 1 exemplaire
At the Circus 1 exemplaire
The Marvellous Magic Show (Olivia's Secret Scribbles 12) (Olivia's Secret Scribbles) (2023) 1 exemplaire
On the Beach 1 exemplaire
Some Towers 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1955-10
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Lieu de naissance
- West Gippsland, Victoria, Australia
- Lieux de résidence
- West Gippsland, Victoria, Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Professions
- author
English teacher
musician - Relations
- Collins, Paul (partner)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 241
- Membres
- 3,470
- Popularité
- #7,329
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 19
- ISBN
- 680
- Langues
- 10
- Favoris
- 1
6/10, this was my first realistic book of 2023 and I was hoping to enjoy this after reading one that turned out to be a snorefest last year but this just wasn't an improvement since I found some issues in this and I doubt I would pick this one up again, where do I even begin. The main character Catalina Parkes Perez otherwise known as Cata is forced to move from Western Australia to the Parliament House in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory; at first it looked interesting but it soon deteriorated from there. She acts spoiled and stubborn at first but she develops her character and the climate change message was so overt it felt like it was shoved in my face. The "PM" is such a tyrant (because she locked the entire child population down just because of the Agitators), I was actually rooting for the opposition. There was a plot point about the Agitators but it felt so dragged and unnecessary and they might've been part of the group against Cata's mother. There was only one joke in this book and that was about the Queen at the time when this was written being asked for 'modern furniture' but it fell flat. In the end the Prime Minister regains control of Parliament and that ends it on a high note.… (plus d'informations)