Ranga Plays Australia
[ISBN: 9780646496924]

Ranga Plays Australia

Reviewed by:
Neil Thomson
Date Added: 04/05/2009


This delightful story comes with a sparkle of freshness and simplicity and the reader will be left wondering how much is fact and how much is the imagination of the author. Nonetheless, the reader will burn with a self satisfaction that he has indeed had a pleasurable journey. The simple honesty of the characters mixed with the time honoured belief that “anything is possible”, leads us to travel with Ranga (as part of his team) on a journey that will enthral, amuse and at times have you relishing in a sentimentality that we all share when an unlikely hero is given a ‘leg-up’, just because his dream is a worthy one. Ian Burns has brought together the magic of a boy’s dream, historical features that may otherwise simply vanish, and a true “good feel” story that is interwoven with humour and spun in a simple easy going style that makes this book hard to put down.