Review: This Is All - Aidan Chambers

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Title: This Is All, The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
Author: Aidan Chambers
Genre: Teens, family
Publisher: Definitions (2007), 2005
Pages: paperback, 808
Language: English
Rating: 8/10
Summary: Cordelia Kenn kept a diary from her fifteenth birthday. Now she is nineteen and pregnant and from her writings and memories she composes a pillowbook for her unborn daughter to share her own experiences as a teen.

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Review: Zoals Dat Gaat Met Wonderen - Arthur Japin

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Title: Zoals Dat Gaat Met Wonderen, Diaries 2000-2007
Author: Arthur Japin
Genre: Autobiography, diary
Publisher: privé-domein, De Arbeiderspers (2008)
Pages: paperback, 454
Language: Dutch
Rating: 9/10
Summary: A chronological collection of impressions and thoughts written down between 2000 and 2007 when actor/author Arthur Japin was working on his next books after his succesful debut 'The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi' an unknown story about two young princes from Ghana who were given to King William The First in the early nineteenth century.

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