Takeshita Demons in Read it! magazine: Encouraging reading for all ages

Read it! YAY! Takeshita Demons was recently featured in Read it! magazine, put out by Books etc and Published World to encourage reading for all ages. The Read it! magazine is FREE and part of a fundraising scheme for UK schools, where 5% of total book purchases goes back to the school. Win prizes, read [...]

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Another review of Takeshita Demons in The West

If you enjoy reading manga and graphic novels you’ll love this debut book by Perth author Cristy Burne. The first in a trilogy of stories, Takeshita Demons is a sometimes gruesome tale about a young girl called Miku and her family who cannot seem to escape their Japanese demons. Miku and her friend Cait have [...]

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The terrific top three books for January: Blue Peter Book Club

And the terrific top three books for January are: – Takeshita Demons – Xtreme X-Ray – Madame Pamplemousse and the Time Travelling Café YAY!!!!! This is what Blue Peter said about Takeshita Demons: “Do you like floating heads and evil spirits? Then you will love this horror adventure! Spooky demons invade Miku’s school and kidnap [...]

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8 bits of great news: HOORAY!

Long time – no post! But I have heaps of great news to make up for it: GREAT NEWS #1: Takeshita Demons and The Filth Licker are being translated into Indonesian! YAY! GREAT NEWS #2: I’m performing at the Perth Writer’s Festival on Family Day: YAY! More details soon… GREAT NEWS #3: I’m also appearing [...]

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This is why we write

Reviews of Takeshita Demons, taken from the Booked Up site: THANK YOU! THANK YOU! You guys rock It is so cool that you actually like Takeshita Demons I’ve also updated my website this week to include some more Takeshita Demons reviews. YAY!

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IBBY review of Takeshita Demons:

…For full text of the review, please scroll to bottom of post… Thanks to the International Board on Books for Young People, or IBBY, and reviewer Anna Warren, for this ace review of Takeshita Demons. “…exactly the kind of story the children in my class would love…” “The pace is just right, and the language [...]

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Takeshita Demons reviewed in The West Australian

This rollicking ride by Perth-based author Cristy Burne is totally deserving of the Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices award for 2009. Take a young Japanese girl, Miku, who is protected by her Baba, and the family’s zashiki-warashi, move her to England and watch out for the demons who have followed her and her family. This exciting, [...]

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Takeshita Demons reviewed in The Age

Japanese culture has influenced this first instalment in what is set to be a trilogy of books featuring Japanese character Miku and her family. Debut Australian author Cristy Burne has lived for several years in Japan, where she grew interested in the local folklore; she now lives in Perth but curiously chose to set her [...]

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One of “summer’s best children’s books”

YAY…More reviews are coming in and the news is good People are enjoying Takeshita Demons YAY!!!! There’s a fab review of Takeshita Demons up at PaperTigers: Lovely highlights below: Takeshita Demons will have readers on the edges of their seats… Cristy Burne has created a fast-paced story full of suspense… Takeshita Demons is likely to [...]

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Books to get your toddler reading

It’s been a very exciting week: the absolute highlight was playing with some lovely friends on their farm, complete with tractors and sheep and wild pigs and more tractors.  Fergus had a ball and we even let him drive (see left; he’s a natural ). On the writerly front, my authors’ copies arrived in the [...]

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