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Feb 8, 2011 · Candy Gourlay has a unique and heartful voice. And Tall Story is the kind of book that feels familiar and brand new, all at the same time. It will appeal to a wide middle grade audience - both girls and boys because of its strong dual protagonists - and especially to basketball lovers! It has the ability to connect the reader to him or herself ...
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May 27, 2010 · (A Book Review of Candy Gourlay’s Tall Story) "Rush hour. So many armpits, so little deodorants." So begins Tall Story, Candy Gourlay’s fantastic debut novel about basketball, sibling love, cultural differences, legend and magic. A poignant tale that warns us of the dangers of the things we wish for and that ultimately, size doesn’t ...
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Judith Woods, The Telegraph. "Tall Story by Candy Gourlay combines wry humour and profound comment on cultural identity. It is an astute coming of age novel. There is an assured quality to the writing which wholly envelops readers in this convincing, witty and poignant story about difference, assimilation and family dynamics."
THE BOOKSELLER. Tall Story by Candy Gourlay combines wry humour and profound comment on cultural identity. It is an astute coming of age novel. There is an assured quality to the writing which wholly envelops readers in this convincing, witty and poignant story about difference, assimilation and family dynamics.
Sep 12, 2015 · All about Filipino life! Tall Story resembles Like A Brave Man by Nelson Carunungan, the first Filipino novel written in English that I have ever read. The only dissimilarity between them is that the former depicts the life of the Filipinos in an old-fashioned- modern period while the latter is steeped in the life of the Filipinos after WWII ...
Tall Story. Author: Candy Gourlay. Publisher: David Fickling Books. Engagingly told in alternate chapters by four-foot, thirteen year-old Andi, in the UK, and her eight-foot, sixteen year-old half brother Bernardo, in the Philippines, Candy Gourlay’s novel draws on her own experience as a Filipino. Andi has moved house, and is fighting to be ...
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Feb 8, 2011 · Tall Story. Candy Gourlay. Random House Children's Books, Feb 8, 2011 - Juvenile Fiction - 304 pages. Andi is short. And she has lots of wishes. She wishes she could play on the school basketball team, she wishes for her own bedroom, but most of all she wishes that her long-lost half-brother, Bernardo, could come and live in London where he ...
