BOOK SA – Reviews

Shelagh McLoughlin of The Weekender provides us with a review of a most unusual book, We Are All Born Free, which introduces the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through a series of illustrations.

We Are All Born Free, published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Declaration, features “twenty-one of the world’s best illustrators” including South Africa’s Niki Daly. McLouglin’s review is not pure carrot – she is wary of the difficulty that smaller readers will have comprehending the book’s hefty subject matter – yet she commends the book nonetheless as a “worthwhile investment”:
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Alex Smith reviews Margie Orford and Andrew Walton’s The Adventures of the Very Brave and Particular Nose. It’s a firm carrot; here’s the complete review:

What do you do if one fine Cape day your usually friendly dog unexpectedly leaps up and bites your neighbour’s child in the face? After all the blood and tears, apologies and emergency room stitches, if you are an internationally published crime writer like Margie Orford, whose novels are translated into several languages including Russian and French, you turn the terrible trauma into a story, and then of course a book.
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