tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7080763276453498935.post2177652611304737587..comments2024-03-18T02:02:51.107-07:00Comments on CBCA Tasmania blog: Hans Christian Andersen Award nominees for 2022CBCA Tasmaniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13175617441683356572noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7080763276453498935.post-11396842595237349012021-02-14T14:54:07.681-08:002021-02-14T14:54:07.681-08:00So many amazing and varied titles that I love in M...So many amazing and varied titles that I love in Margaret Wild's bibliography. Pocket Dogs to Mr Nick's Knitting to Fox and Woolvs in the Sitee.<br />I believe my first Tohby Riddle was The Great Escape from City Zoo, and I love Milo and Yahoo Creek all for varied reasons.<br />I recently read The True Story of My Life by Hans Christian Andersen. Amazing in so many ways: the resilience of not being appreciated, in fact ridiculed in his home town/country. His reliance on the many benefactors who fed and housed him when he had no money. His inability to find attainable love. A hard read, but a worthwhile journey.Flis_Donhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01035186938410527960noreply@blogger.com