Children's Book World: 'Season of the Briar'
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Season of the Briar … is not a good book by any standard…. There is foolish heroism (Matt) and studied cowardice (Douglas) and remorse by Bruce over his failure as a leader….
The lack of a central character is not necessarily a defect, but the unfocused confusion of Season of the Briar is too much. Ivan Southall's Ash Road and Hills End are much better representatives of Australian books which depict the reaction of characters under stress.
Dorothy M. Broderick, "Children's Book World: 'Season of the Briar'," in Book World—Chicago Tribune (© 1967 Postrib Corp.; reprinted by permission of Chicago Tribune and The Washington Post), September 24, 1967, p. 22.
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