Nellie Belle

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.

Nellie Belle
AuthorMem Fox
IllustratorMike Austin
Cover artistMike Austin
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's picture book
Published2015 (Scholastic)
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages32 (unpaginated)
ISBN9781760274108
OCLC1080159938

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]

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.
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