By Maureen Tai, 10 November 2017
My love for comics began at an early age. I was likely 5 or 6 when I excitedly pored over my first Tintin adventure, The Black Island, bought for 75p from the local WHSmith. Continue reading
Category: Ages 12+
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
By Maureen Tai, 3 November 2017
“… he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn’t work. It wasn’t just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that – it didn’t work. When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.”
– Narrator
Trash by Andy Mulligan
By Maureen Tai, 29 October 2017
“There are values and virtues and morals; there are relationships and trust and love – and all of that is important. Money, however, is more important, and it is dripping all the time, like precious water. Some drink deep, others thirst. Without money, you shrivel and die.” – Sister Olivia
The setting is a sprawling, festering dumpsite in the Philippines.
Stories That Stay With Us 