· Leanne Hall is an author of novels for young adults including the Text Prize-winning This Is Shyness and its sequel Queen of the Night. Iris and the Tiger is her first work for younger readers. Leanne has had shorter pieces published in Meanjin, Age, Best Australian Stories and the anthology Growing Up Asian In Australia. Her work plays with the borders of reality and fantasy. · Iris and the Tiger by Leanne Hall. I actually can’t remember exactly how I ended up with Iris and the Tiger on my to-read bookshelf. I’m not sure, in fact, that I know anyone else who’s read it. And that’s a pity, because it’s a delightful book: a marvelous little surreal fantasy that I enjoyed very much and highly recommend. · Age/Sydney Morning Herald. ‘This is a compelling and totally absorbing book that has a timeless, classic feel about it A wonderful, unique adventure story to read, cherish and remember.’. ReadPlus. ‘ Iris and the Tiger is its own piece of surrealist art It resonates, and it offers you a glimpse into a new www.doorway.rued on: Janu.
The magical realism of 'Iris and the Tiger' is borne of the surrealism in the paintings that hang at her Aunt Ursual's Bosque de Nubes. Though eventually the strangeness of the paintings that Iris encounters seem to leak into the real-world and the goings-on of her Aunt's strange and fantastical life . A painting hanging nearby. Iris and the Tiger by Leanne Hall. Text, ISBN (Age: ) Highly recommended. Adventure. Surrealism. Art. Iris, a sensible 12 year old has been sent to Spain by her grasping parents to make sure that her Aunt Ursula leaves her fortune and big estate, to Iris and her parents. Iris and the Tiger is the first novel for younger readers written by Australian author, Leanne Hall. She may be only twelve, but her parents have set her a formidable task: Iris is to go to Spain and secure the estate of her Great Aunt Ursula.
Age/Sydney Morning Herald. ‘This is a compelling and totally absorbing book that has a timeless, classic feel about it A wonderful, unique adventure story to read, cherish and remember.’. ReadPlus. ‘ Iris and the Tiger is its own piece of surrealist art It resonates, and it offers you a glimpse into a new world. "Readers will happily go along for the ride as Iris and Jordi combine method and adventure to solve these riddles. A quirky, cleareyed enchantment. More like this, please! (Mystery. )"#;Kirkus"A surrealist mystery (what could be more intriguing than that?) and a fantastic. ‘Iris and the Tiger’ is the new novel from Australian author Leanne Hall, a magnificent middle-grade magical-realism marvel. Let me begin my review of Hall’s ‘Iris and the Tiger’ by quoting another book. ‘It’s the things you read at the age you are now which stick. Books crow-bar the world open for you.’.
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