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Tarek and Zimm
Escape!
1999 Orbit Chapter Books -- Escape! (Paprback)(7.5"x5.15"x0.15") by Pauline Cartwright / Illustrated by Lorenzo Van Der Lingen ***PL-9009 *** 9780478229080 *** 32
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Pauline Cartwright
238 books6 followersPauline Cartwright is a New Zealand author of children's literature. She has written novels, picture books, stories (including for radio), educational readers, and poems for children.
Cartwright was awarded the Choysa / QE11 Arts Council Bursary for Children's Writers in 1991 and shared the University of Otago College of Education / Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in Residence Fellowship in 2003 with David Hill.
Several of her books have been short-listed for New Zealand Book Awards, including Grow a Gift (1991) and Saved by Ryan Kane (1994).
She lives in Alexandra, New Zealand.
Cartwright was awarded the Choysa / QE11 Arts Council Bursary for Children's Writers in 1991 and shared the University of Otago College of Education / Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in Residence Fellowship in 2003 with David Hill.
Several of her books have been short-listed for New Zealand Book Awards, including Grow a Gift (1991) and Saved by Ryan Kane (1994).
She lives in Alexandra, New Zealand.
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September 24, 2024
A (very) short science fiction chapter book written by Pauline Cartwright and illustrated by Lorenzo Van der Lingen. Published in New Zealand in 1999.
This is a weird little story because it starts full tilt in the middle of a story and we get no background to the story or to the characters. The first page tells us "Starship Astra was in trouble. Their engine was down to half power. They needed trillium metal to fix it. They had stopped near a strange, dark planet. Zimm and Tarek had taken a shuttle to explore the planet and to look for the metal they needed."
Van der Lingen's ink/pen illustrations show us the starship, the shuttle, Zimm (a short-haired woman with a long neck) and Tarek (an alien looking much like a bug-like Osiris, complete with Nemes headdress and plaited beard). There are 7 short chapters, during which Zimm and Tarek navigate a forcefield on the planet and find the planet filled with Andrals, a long way from their home planet, mining the trillium. They hand over their 'freezebeams' but learn the Andrals plan to keep them prisoner so they can't spread word of the trillium mine. They steal a block of trillium and make their escape in their shuttle, planning to send payment once they are safely back at the ship.
It's a fun little story so long as you're not looking for any exposition or character development! It was published by Learning Media Literacy so no doubt written to encourage reluctant readers, and the speedy plot, filled with action, accompanied by Van der Lingen's fun cartoonish drawings would likely do the trick. My only hesitation in that area is the scifi technobabble with probes, forcefields, and freezebeams, but part of learning language is having fun with language, so this may not be a minus
This is a weird little story because it starts full tilt in the middle of a story and we get no background to the story or to the characters. The first page tells us "Starship Astra was in trouble. Their engine was down to half power. They needed trillium metal to fix it. They had stopped near a strange, dark planet. Zimm and Tarek had taken a shuttle to explore the planet and to look for the metal they needed."
Van der Lingen's ink/pen illustrations show us the starship, the shuttle, Zimm (a short-haired woman with a long neck) and Tarek (an alien looking much like a bug-like Osiris, complete with Nemes headdress and plaited beard). There are 7 short chapters, during which Zimm and Tarek navigate a forcefield on the planet and find the planet filled with Andrals, a long way from their home planet, mining the trillium. They hand over their 'freezebeams' but learn the Andrals plan to keep them prisoner so they can't spread word of the trillium mine. They steal a block of trillium and make their escape in their shuttle, planning to send payment once they are safely back at the ship.
It's a fun little story so long as you're not looking for any exposition or character development! It was published by Learning Media Literacy so no doubt written to encourage reluctant readers, and the speedy plot, filled with action, accompanied by Van der Lingen's fun cartoonish drawings would likely do the trick. My only hesitation in that area is the scifi technobabble with probes, forcefields, and freezebeams, but part of learning language is having fun with language, so this may not be a minus
October 10, 2018
Not very well written in flow and plot.
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