About the Author:
Joanna Orwin is an award-winning author with a strong focus on New Zealand and Maori history, she has written a wide range of books including young adult, non-fiction and picture books. She also works as a consultant researcher, writer and editor on interpretation projects.
Watcher in the Forest
About this title:
Jen and her brother and sister set off on a tramp. Everything is fun until Jen gets a funny feeling that everything isn't quite right. She becomes convinced they are being watched.
Originally published in 1987 by Oxford
Cover based on the original by Gavin Bishop
Goodreads: 4.43 star rating
Reviews:
I loved it!! Like all of Orwin's earlier books, there is a dominant Māori theme. With a time rift, and good New Zealand forest accompanied by a good plot, it will stay with you long after the last page! Rachel (Goodreads)
Watcher in the Forest by Joanna Orwin is, in my opinion, among the great New Zealand children's books, up there with X Marks The Spot by Joan de Hamel and The World Around the Corner by Maurice Gee. This story has a time slip element, which for me evokes The House in Norham Gardens by Penelope Lively, one of my favourite books. I really enjoyed the way the story, similarly to that book, deals with time as well as the connection between past and present. Isaac (Goodreads)
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