Millie and the Night Heron / Rain May and Captain Daniel (Catherine Bateson) Please remember I have only "officially" been a school librarian for a little over a year, so when it comes to getting to know children's authors, I am but a babe in the woods. In my latest endeavour to chop back some of the forest I picked up two books, completely separately, and thought "I'll read those". Turns out those two books were Millie and the Night Heron and Rain May and Captain Daniel. I didn't look at the author at all, and it wasn't until I started Rain May I realised they were both by Catherine Bateson. An author who lives in my area of Melbourne. Who, for all I know, may even live up the road from me. Anyways, turns out that any self-respecting children's librarian should immediately know of Catherine Bateson. Well, now I do. I have only read these two examples of her work, and let me say, there are quite a few similarities between the two....
The random musings of a girl who loves Librarian Life.