Nellie Belle

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Nellie Belle
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Author Mem Fox
IllustratorMike Austin
Cover artistMike Austin
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's picture book
Published2015 (Scholastic)
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages32 (unpaginated)
ISBN 9781760274108
OCLC 1080159938

Nellie Belle is a 2015 children's picture book by Mem Fox and illustrated by Mike Austin. It is about a dog called Nellie Belle who escapes from her yard and has some adventures in her beachside town before being scared by some possums in a park and returning home.

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Reception

Kirkus Reviews , on reviewing Nellie Belle, wrote: "Sunny, reassuring fare for recent graduates from toddlerdom itching to leave safe harbors (for a time, at least) to check out new horizons of their own". [1] Publishers Weekly found it "an energetic, romping story from start to finish, yet counterbalanced by the soothing repetitions and rhythms of Fox’s verse". [2]

Nellie Belle has also been reviewed by the following magazines: Booklist , [3] School Library Journal , [4] Horn Book Guides , [5] and Magpies. [6]

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References

  1. "Nellie Belle". Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus Media LLC. 15 November 2015. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  2. "Nellie Belle". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz LLC. 28 September 2015. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  3. Connie Fletcher. "Nellie Belle". Booklist. American Library Association. Retrieved 9 September 2021. The tale is told in repeating rhymes and questions that give it a jaunty air and will help young readers with word recognition.
  4. Anna Haase Krueger (1 January 2016). "Nellie Belle". School Library Journal. Media Source Inc. Retrieved 9 September 2021. Finding the right tune or rhythm for this book will be the key to read-aloud success, but those who are able to make it work will enjoy it for storytime or one-on-one reading.
  5. "Nellie Belle". Horn Book Guides. Media Source Inc. Retrieved 9 September 2021. ... knockout cut-paper-like digital illustrations, but the book's repetition gets tedious, gets tedious.
  6. Lyn Linning (March 2016). "Nellie Belle". Magpies: Talking About Books For Children. Vol. 31, no. 1. Magpies Magazine. p. 27.