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J.R. Poulter

J.R. Poulter

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Latest book, "Mending Lucille", picturebook,  nominated for the CBC Crichton Award and for the Family Therapists' Award 2009.
The book was selected as one of the TOP TEN in the NZ Children's Choice Award.
"Gelati Supreme", Era, awarded second place, Suncorp Children's Book Award, junior novel
"The Cool Shop" Macmillan, junior novel plus audio
Six volume series for education "Poetry Action for Classroom and Stage"
"The Stray" in CBC Notable Book winner "The Girl Who Married a Fly", AATE, anthology.
Coming - "Magical Secrets, Fairies", The Book Company, due for release in November 2009.

A Shadow in Yucatan

A Shadow in Yucatan

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<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>

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