The Letterbook Series- Book One "Amy's Secret"
You can write anything in a letterbook. There's just one rule: you can't tell anyone else what's in it.
"Dear Ames,
I was wondering if you wanna start a letterbook with me?
While I was on hols in Tassie, my cousin Hannah showed me this book. It was just a school exercise book, okay, but it was all decorated and glittered up. Inside, she and her friend Olivia had taken turns writing letters to each other, but not just letters - there were photos, stuff cut out from magazines, tickets from movies they saw together, even choccie wrappers!"
Jess and Amy haven't always been close. But when they start a letterbook, dark secrets are revealed and a deep friendship is forged.
Published by ABC Books- distributed by Harper Collins
Pages: 160
Released: 2008
ISBN / Catalogue Number: 9780733322020
NEWS FLASH! FEBRUARY 2010!!!!! "AMY"S SECRET" HAS JUST BEEN PUBLISHED IN NORWAY AND SWEDEN!!
"Dear Ames,
I was wondering if you wanna start a letterbook with me?
While I was on hols in Tassie, my cousin Hannah showed me this book. It was just a school exercise book, okay, but it was all decorated and glittered up. Inside, she and her friend Olivia had taken turns writing letters to each other, but not just letters - there were photos, stuff cut out from magazines, tickets from movies they saw together, even choccie wrappers!"
Jess and Amy haven't always been close. But when they start a letterbook, dark secrets are revealed and a deep friendship is forged.
Published by ABC Books- distributed by Harper Collins
Pages: 160
Released: 2008
ISBN / Catalogue Number: 9780733322020
NEWS FLASH! FEBRUARY 2010!!!!! "AMY"S SECRET" HAS JUST BEEN PUBLISHED IN NORWAY AND SWEDEN!!
The Letterbook Two- "Passion For Fashion"
Think you've got what it takes to go from swottie to hottie? There's a competition. Girlzone magazine is looking for REAL GIRLS and they'll come to the winning school to do makeovers and a fashion shoot. There's a social to organise and heaps of plans to make, so Aphra and Mimi start a letter book. That way they can swap ideas without being sprung. Then, just as everything's happening at school, life at home becomes complicated. There are rules for single-parent dating, but apparently Mimi's mum hasn't heard of them. Aphra looks like losing the plot, too. Passion for Fashion is the mad funny story of the way real life keeps causing trouble. And the way real friends can help make our dreams come true.
ISBN: 9780733324864
Australian Pub.: November 2008 Edition: 1
Publisher: ABC BOOKS
Distributed by Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780733324864
Australian Pub.: November 2008 Edition: 1
Publisher: ABC BOOKS
Distributed by Harper Collins
What People say about the letterbooks.............
Children's Book Review: Passion for Fashion, by Ellie Royce
Reviewed by Claire Saxby
The second title in the Letterbook series.
Exerpt page One
[Note passed in class]
Mimi : Afro! Want to start a lettabook with me?
Aphra: What in the name of Sass’n’Bide is a lettabook?
Mimi: It’s this mad thing Jess told me about. You get a book and you can stick stuff in it – memories of what you like, where you go, what you do and stuff.
Aphra: That’s a scrapbook, dummy.
Mimi :No! It’s different. you write letters to each other too. It’s like a scrapbook corssed with a blog, kinda. You wanna?
Aphra: Sounds a bit retro.
Mimi: Don’t B boring! It’ll be fun. It’ll be mad, like a retro Myspace, except just for us two. Come on!!!!
Aphra: Okay, whatever. You start it and show me. but don’t send me any more notes. Ms Mills is giving me the evil eye.
Mimi and Aphra have been friends for the longest time. Until recently they lived two doors apart and attended the same primary school. Now they’re at the same secondary school but only share two classes. It’s not as easy for them to spend time together like they used to. So Mimi proposes a letterbook. In it, they continue the conversations that they have in person and add more. They are both fashion mad, although Mimi is interested in photography and journalism, and Aphra wants to be a model.
They enter a competition in ‘Real Girl’ magazine for a fashion shoot at their school. Life is wonderful. But the letterbook also is a place for secrets, some unspoken. Mimi’s widowed mother is seeing someone and it seems to be moving way too fast. Aphra’s sister is getting married and the house is overwhelmed by wedding fever.
The more they tell each other, the more secrets there seem to be. Passion for Fashion is the second book in the Letterbook series from Ellie Royce and ABC Books. The cover art is bright and funky with photos of the girls and doodles and more. The idea of a letterbook begins with two 13 year old girls just wanting to keep in touch.
But although the title alludes to teenage girls’ love of fashion, there are much deeper issues explored as well. Mimi and Aphra have very different family experiences. Mimi is an only child and lives with her widowed mother. Aphra has three sisters and one brother and is part of a traditional Greek family. The letterbook helps both girls work through the daily dramas of life and strengthens a relationship that helps both girls keep perspective.
They begin to look at boys differently, experience responsibility, body image, explore new paths (not always successfully). Ellie Royce has produced another very readable, fast-moving story that sympathetically examines big and small issues that affect young teenage girls. Recommended for upper-primary readers. Passion for Fashion, Ellie Royce
ABC Books,2008
ISBN: 9780733324864
Reviewed by Claire Saxby
The second title in the Letterbook series.
Exerpt page One
[Note passed in class]
Mimi : Afro! Want to start a lettabook with me?
Aphra: What in the name of Sass’n’Bide is a lettabook?
Mimi: It’s this mad thing Jess told me about. You get a book and you can stick stuff in it – memories of what you like, where you go, what you do and stuff.
Aphra: That’s a scrapbook, dummy.
Mimi :No! It’s different. you write letters to each other too. It’s like a scrapbook corssed with a blog, kinda. You wanna?
Aphra: Sounds a bit retro.
Mimi: Don’t B boring! It’ll be fun. It’ll be mad, like a retro Myspace, except just for us two. Come on!!!!
Aphra: Okay, whatever. You start it and show me. but don’t send me any more notes. Ms Mills is giving me the evil eye.
Mimi and Aphra have been friends for the longest time. Until recently they lived two doors apart and attended the same primary school. Now they’re at the same secondary school but only share two classes. It’s not as easy for them to spend time together like they used to. So Mimi proposes a letterbook. In it, they continue the conversations that they have in person and add more. They are both fashion mad, although Mimi is interested in photography and journalism, and Aphra wants to be a model.
They enter a competition in ‘Real Girl’ magazine for a fashion shoot at their school. Life is wonderful. But the letterbook also is a place for secrets, some unspoken. Mimi’s widowed mother is seeing someone and it seems to be moving way too fast. Aphra’s sister is getting married and the house is overwhelmed by wedding fever.
The more they tell each other, the more secrets there seem to be. Passion for Fashion is the second book in the Letterbook series from Ellie Royce and ABC Books. The cover art is bright and funky with photos of the girls and doodles and more. The idea of a letterbook begins with two 13 year old girls just wanting to keep in touch.
But although the title alludes to teenage girls’ love of fashion, there are much deeper issues explored as well. Mimi and Aphra have very different family experiences. Mimi is an only child and lives with her widowed mother. Aphra has three sisters and one brother and is part of a traditional Greek family. The letterbook helps both girls work through the daily dramas of life and strengthens a relationship that helps both girls keep perspective.
They begin to look at boys differently, experience responsibility, body image, explore new paths (not always successfully). Ellie Royce has produced another very readable, fast-moving story that sympathetically examines big and small issues that affect young teenage girls. Recommended for upper-primary readers. Passion for Fashion, Ellie Royce
ABC Books,2008
ISBN: 9780733324864