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Steven Herrick was organised to visit our Library this year, however, due to Covid-19 this meeting had to be cancelled. Herrick has published twenty-four books for adults, young adults and children. He is widely regarded as a pioneer of verse-novels for children and young adults. Herrick was born the youngest of seven children.
Check out Herrick's website to learn more about the author
by the river is a verse-novel for young adults. And just between me and you, it's probably my favourite.
Life for Harry means swimming in Pearce Swamp, eating chunks of watermelon with his brother and his dad, surviving schoolyard battles, and racing through butterflies in Cowpers Paddock. In his town there's Linda, who brings him the sweetest-ever orange cake, and Johnny, whose lightning fists draw blood in a blur, and there's a mystery that Harry needs to solve before he can find a way out...
* Winner of the 2005 NSW Premier's Literary Awards
(Ethel Turner Prize for books for young adults)
* Honour Book in the 2005 Children's Book Council Of
Australia Book of the Year. (Older Readers)
* Winner of the 2005 Australian Speech Pathologists of Australia Book of the Year (Older Readers)
This is my third novel (in verse) for young adults. It’s about Billy, who leaves home aboard a freight train heading interstate. Billy finds himself in Bendarat, living in a disused train carriage, where he meets a homeless man called Old Bill. Old Bill drinks away his past while Billy tries to find a future. The other main character is Caitlin, a girl Billy meets in Bendarat. All three characters are searching for something to give their lives substance. .
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