CLUBS reviews

'The classroom is a microcosm. Every classroom has the same people in it, time and again – the timid girl, the boy you can't bear. And the self-portraits! I love seeing how they cast themselves.'
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'It's always an occasion for jubilation when a picture book arrives whose combination of text and illustrations makes you pause and consider: re-examine; interpret and discuss.' read more >>
- Bill Nagelkerke, Magpie

‘In a class of its own, Clubs is one of the most significant
New Zealand picture books of the past 10 years.’
– Dylan Owen, The Dominion Post

'Pure brilliance'.
– John McIntyre, Radio New Zealand

'Both in terms of its text and illustration this book is a breakthrough in New Zealaland publishing. Original, funny, demanding to a degree, and achieving a true marriage of text and image... There are lots of wonderful stories with pictures, but this is a picture book in the truest sense of the word.’
- Margaret Mahy

BILLY reviews

Billy is right on the button
'Billy is another class act from the inspired pen and paint duo of
De Goldi and artist Jacqui Colley, winner of the 2005 New Zealand Post Children & Young Adults Books of the Year for their first
Lolly Leopold story, Clubs. No one else comes close to celebrating a classroom’s directed chaos and the ricochet of action and ego. Colley’s layering illustrations employ a restless perspective that matches the story’s starburst of sub-plot, detour, wit and wonderful characterisation. Billy won’t disappoint the legion of Lolly fans – and those who secretly wished they had a teacher like Ms Love.'
– Dylan Owen, The Dominion Post

'A follow-up to the award-winning Clubs, this terrific story about a wilful schoolboy is rich in imagination, with mesmerising illustrations by Jacqui Colley, who uses a mixture of collages, chalk drawings, notes and swirly paintings to stunning effect.'
– Graham Hepburn, The Herald