PRAISE FOR BERNARD BECKETT AND
Malcolm and Juliet

Winner, 2005 NZ Post Book Awards
for Children and Young Adults

Winner, 2005 Esther Glen Award, Library and
Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa

Notable Books List 2005
Children’s Literature Foundation of New Zealand

‘Beckett has a sound touch for comedy.’ NZ Books

‘Vigorous and lively characters…Beckett has always had a wry humour in his excellent novels about young people on the brink of life, but in Malcolm and Juliet, the humour is in charge. This is one of those novels you carry around quoting from…Let me urge nervous librarians, parents and teachers to buy several copies of Malcolm and Juliet. And to read one of them.’ Magpies

‘A candid and funny look at the issues of teenage sex and sexuality…This novel began as a script for a school drama performance and it would make a great movie.’ NZ Herald

‘Every line’s a winner in Bernard Beckett’s brilliant, tongue in cheek book. [He] not only writes like a dream but he can read teen minds…a sweetly hilarious farce… Pure bliss and a joke in every paragraph.’ North & South

‘The funniest book for young adults.’ The Star