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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 [Review] Sarah and the Steep Slope
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'A small girl, Sarah opens her front door and sees a huge, steep slope leading upwards, as if into the sky. She wants to visit her friends but the slope blocks her. Literally an insurmountable problem that she unsuccessfully tries to solve. In desperation, she calls in a slope doctor. He is not much help  but gives her some cards to fill in that he then posts off to her friends who live beyond the giant slope and they soon come for a visit.' (introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Magpies : Talking about Books for Children vol. 32 no. 5 November 2017 12559382 2017 periodical issue

    'Kevin Crossley Holland has a new collection of of Norse Myths published and a striking work it is :  a thing of strength and wonder, but what has taken my fancy in particular is his introduction in which he refers to the myths as brilliant, fast moving, ice-bright stories. Equally melodramatic is his explanation of why myths were created and why we should still be reading them: They try to explain how humans are as we are and how things came to be. The tell us about ourselves and out world, but through the lens of imaginative story telling, coloured by the beauty and expanse and extremes of the icy fiery landscape where they originated.' (Editorial)

         2017     pg. 33
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y separately published work icon Sarah And The Steep Slope Danny Parker , Matt Ottley (illustrator), Richmond : Hardie Grant Egmont , 2017 11610783 2017 single work picture book children's

'When everything feels like an uphill battle, your friends will get you through.
 
'Sarah wakes to find a steep hill has sprung up around the house overnight, preventing her from leaving. No matter what she tries, the hill won’t budge. When the Hill Doctor suggests she gets in touch with her friends, Sarah discovers how the healing power of friendship can transform the steepest slope.' (Publication summary)
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