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Title: Wonderful and confronting
Review: Originally a collection of pictures that Neil Curtis made to help comfort himself after the death of his mother, The Memory Book tells the story of the first seven years of his life in London (post WWII) until his family moved to Australia.Each page spread has a snippet of memory on one side, mainly written as he understood it at the time, and a full page illustration of the feeling or event on the other. He draws himself as a little pillowcase figure, tiny in the adult world. The pictures are very evocative, sometimes funny and sometimes quite confronting. I borrowed this book from a friend, and I can't wait to pick up my own copy.Neil Curtis won the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year award for his picturebook Cat and Fish.
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