AustLit
Latest Issues
AbstractHistoryArchive Description
'She knew this.
That philematology is the science of kissing.
That Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known as Mark Twain.
That, originally, gold comes from the stars.
'Madeleine Tully lives in Cambridge, England, the World - a city of spires, Isaac Newton and Auntie's Tea Shop.
'Elliot Baranski lives in Bonfire, the Farms, the Kingdom of Cello - where seasons roam, the Butterfly Child sleeps in a glass jar, and bells warn of attacks from dangerous Colours.
'They are worlds apart - until a crack opens up between them; a corner of white - the slim seam of a letter.
'Elliot begins to write to Madeleine, the Girl-in-the-World - a most dangerous thing to do for suspected cracks must be reported and closed.
'But Elliot's father has disappeared and Madeleine's mother is sick. Can a stranger from another world help to unravel the mysteries in your own?
'Can Madeleine and Elliot find the missing pieces of themselves before it is too late?
'A mesmerising story of two worlds; the cracks between them, the science that binds them and the colours that infuse them.' (Source: Publisher's blurb)
Notes
-
Starred book in 'The Horn Magazine' 89:3, May/June 2013.
-
Included on the 2013 White Ravens list compiled by the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany.
-
Fiction Honor Book in the Horn Book Awards 2013.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
-
A Corner of White
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: The Horn Book Magazine , January/February 2014 vol. 90 no. 1 2014; (p. 36-37) -
[Review] A Corner of White
2014
single work
extract
— Appears in: The Horn Book Magazine , January/February 2014 vol. 90 no. 1 2014; (p. 16)
— Review of A Corner of White 2012 single work novel -
"There and Nowhere" : A Conversation with Jaclyn Moriarty
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: The Horn Book Magazine , September/October vol. 90 no. 5 2014; (p. 23-27) -
A Corner of White (Colors of Madeleine)
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Horn Book Magazine , January/February vol. 90 no. 1 2014; (p. 16)
— Review of A Corner of White 2012 single work novel -
A Corner of White
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Horn Book Magazine , May/June vol. 89 no. 3 2013; (p. 91-92)
— Review of A Corner of White 2012 single work novel
-
Colours Commit Darkest Deeds
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 22 - 23 September 2012; (p. 21)
— Review of A Corner of White 2012 single work novel -
[Review] A Corner of White
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August/September vol. 92 no. 1 2012; (p. 20)
— Review of A Corner of White 2012 single work novel -
Fantasy
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 29 September 2012; (p. 28)
— Review of A Corner of White 2012 single work novel -
Take Three : Fantasy
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 14 October 2012; (p. 26)
— Review of A Corner of White 2012 single work novel -
Young Adult
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 24 November 2012; (p. 21)
— Review of A Corner of White 2012 single work novel -
Strange Directions
Amelia Vahtrick
(interviewer),
2012
single work
interview
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August/September vol. 92 no. 1 2012; (p. 25) -
"There and Nowhere" : A Conversation with Jaclyn Moriarty
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: The Horn Book Magazine , September/October vol. 90 no. 5 2014; (p. 23-27) -
A Corner of White
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: The Horn Book Magazine , January/February 2014 vol. 90 no. 1 2014; (p. 36-37)
Awards
- 2015 shortlisted West Australian Young Readers' Book Award — Older Readers
- 2013 shortlisted Nebula Awards — Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
- 2013 winner Queensland Literary Awards — Young Adult Book Award
- 2013 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Young Adult Fiction
- 2013 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
-
Cambridge,
Cambridgeshire,
cEngland,ccUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,