Summer time by Antonia Pesenti & Hilary Bell

Author combination Antonia Pesenti and Hilary Bell have written a creative and ingenious book about summer holidays. From the bold endpapers featuring a different analogue time front and back, to the collage-style brightly coloured full page illustrations, this book will remind the older reader of summer holidays past. Reminders of waiting an hour to swim after eating lunch, swooping magpies, charcoal black sausages on the barbecue, mozzie bites, bushfires, eating mangoes and Neapolitan ice-cream, these are all memories for many living in Australia. The use of highlighted time words including forever, eternity, instant, ages and evening, will provide primary school teachers with the perfect book to use an as introduction to a unit of work on Time. The rhyming text is both cleverly constructed and complex, and the book will be best shared with between an adult and child.

Themes: Summer, Time, Holidays, Memories.

Kathryn Beilby