Carole Wilkinson
Author of Dragon Keeper
About the Author
Carole Wilkinson was born in 1950 in Derby England. Up until age 40 she worked as a laboratory assistant. It was then that she wanted a change of career. She began to take classes in writing at a university. She showed some of her writing to a friend who worked in the publishing industry. This lead show more to a commission to write her first novel for teenagers. Since then she has gone on to write several books. She has also written episodes for children's television. She is best known for her Dragonkeeper books. She won the Aurealis Award 2014 in the category of Children's Fiction with her title Shadow Sister: Dragon Keeper. In 2016, she won the Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature in the Nonfiction category for her book, Atmospheric. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Carole Wilkinson
101 Histórias Ilustradas de Animais 2 copies
the games 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1950
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Australia
- Birthplace
- Derby, Derbyshire, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Occupations
- laboratory assistant
children's book author - Relationships
- Wilkinson, Lili (daughter)
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Garden of the Purple Dragon, Carole Wilkinson (M28'12) in World Reading Circle (April 2012)
Reviews
In the Acknowledgments the author mentions having to rush the end of this book. Unfortunately, it shows through. This could have wrapped up beautifully a wonderful trilogy, but upsettingly it didn't. Just like the first, a great book other than the ending.
This is a really nice book - in the beginning.
The idea of everything is amazingly old, and yet so fresh. The way the author portrays things isn't so special, and yet you really do end up feeling connected to the characters - sometimes.
I guessed a lot of the plots pretty much before they'd started. I guess after a month or so of reading the pretty much unpredictable (for me, anyways) HP series I am ready for a lot of things. I guessed thatthe dragon stone was an egg even when Ping found it in the dragon pit.
I felt personally that the end was unsatisfying, simply because I'd guessed everything before it happened. The things I hadn't guessed seemed to have been made up on the spot and difficult to comprehend, and though the book ended as if to say "That part's over, now for the next", I didn't really feel as though many loose ends had been tied up. As I was reading I was simply stacking up little mysteries, such as the Emporer biting his fingernails being mentioned more than once. Unless I just missed the cause of this in a moment of haste, or failed to read between the lines when the reason was indicated, I couldn't figure out why this was so. As for a lot of the other little things in the book, I thought the same.
But through and through the book, reading it until the last few pages, I really thought this was a nice, heart-warming tale. Gruesome in some parts, and some things unexpected apart from the author's want to make everything predictable due to Ping's abilities, I loved it. I love reading about different people's take on dragons especially, but unicorns, pegasus, pheonixes etc. and this Chinese Dragon Keeper take on it all was an interesting and enjoyable read.
Overall I recommend this, for the beginning and middle. I don't doubt the next book will be great as well, and I can't wait to read it!… (more)
The idea of everything is amazingly old, and yet so fresh. The way the author portrays things isn't so special, and yet you really do end up feeling connected to the characters - sometimes.
I guessed a lot of the plots pretty much before they'd started. I guess after a month or so of reading the pretty much unpredictable (for me, anyways) HP series I am ready for a lot of things. I guessed that
I felt personally that the end was unsatisfying, simply because I'd guessed everything before it happened. The things I hadn't guessed seemed to have been made up on the spot and difficult to comprehend, and though the book ended as if to say "That part's over, now for the next", I didn't really feel as though many loose ends had been tied up. As I was reading I was simply stacking up little mysteries, such as the Emporer biting his fingernails being mentioned more than once. Unless I just missed the cause of this in a moment of haste, or failed to read between the lines when the reason was indicated, I couldn't figure out why this was so. As for a lot of the other little things in the book, I thought the same.
But through and through the book, reading it until the last few pages, I really thought this was a nice, heart-warming tale. Gruesome in some parts, and some things unexpected apart from the author's want to make everything predictable due to Ping's abilities, I loved it. I love reading about different people's take on dragons especially, but unicorns, pegasus, pheonixes etc. and this Chinese Dragon Keeper take on it all was an interesting and enjoyable read.
Overall I recommend this, for the beginning and middle. I don't doubt the next book will be great as well, and I can't wait to read it!… (more)
A solid start - especially after trudging through the Tawney Man series. I love how the characters in part one are being slowly developed and explored. For me, this fills a major gap in Hobb's writing and is a welcome relief. I think the pacing of the story suffers a little, but I have confidence that will resolve itself as the series progresses!
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The whole idea of everything I found easier to comprehend. While in the last book the plot wasn't very out there, you can see it showing through this time. I found it much less predictable and, though I felt it wasn't the same without Danzi, I'm certainly learning more and more about China in the Han Dynasty.