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Monday, July 27, 2015

A Browse Through My Cyber Bookshelves

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We all do it. You buy a book and start reading it and then get distracted, sometimes by Life, sometimes by another book toy. And that has b...
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Saturday, July 25, 2015

Re-discovering Alison Goodman

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I get a lot of ebooks, including anthologies, which tend to be cheap and feature my favourite writers. I was looking on my cyber bookshelve...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Stella Prize Schools Program: A Guest Post By Bec Kavanagh

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Welcome again to Bec, who answered some questions about the Stella Prize Schools Program the other day and who now has kindly written us a ...
Monday, July 20, 2015

The Stella Prize Schools Program - An Interview With Bec Kavanagh!

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  Earlier this year, we had a wonderful guest speaker, Alice Pung, compliments of the Stella Prize Schools Program. I had spoken to Ambeli...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Reading and Rereading Now

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I'm carrying in my tote bag the new novel by Louis Sachar, Fuzzy Mud , this one aimed at younger readers - mid to late primary school. T...
Monday, July 13, 2015

In The Skin Of A Monster by Kathryn Barker. Sydney: Allen And Unwin,2015

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Three years ago, Alice's identical twin sister took a gun to school and shot seven people, including her boyfriend. Since then, t...
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Friday, July 10, 2015

Phyllis Wong And The Waking Of The Wizard by Geoffrey McSkimming.Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2015

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Phyllis Wong is a magician, like her great-grandfather, Wallace Wong, a successful stage magician who disappeared in 1936. She lives ...
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Thursday, July 09, 2015

The Silly Book Of Weird And Wacky Words by Andy Seed, Ill. Scott Garrett.London:Bloomsbury, 2015

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Really, English is a crazy language that has only become crazier over the centuries. Why not share the craziness with children?  But with th...

On Reviewing Books By Friends...Or Not

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This morning I read a blog post at Writer Beware, about a woman who had been upset - very upset - when Amazon took down one of her reviews...
Wednesday, July 08, 2015

The Next Ford Street Event!

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In case you missed this week's terrific event at Ford Street, there's another one coming up in two weeks. I can't go due to fam...

Posts To Come - About The Stellas!

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Bec Kavanagh, from the Stella For Schools program has written a great guest post which I will be posting as soon as she has also answered s...
Tuesday, July 07, 2015

The Impossible Knife Of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson. Melbourne:Text, 2014. A sort-of Review

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For the past five years Hayley Kincain and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to esc...
Monday, July 06, 2015

An Evening At Ford Street Publishing

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It's been a long time since Booktalkers ended at the Centre for Youth Literature. I've missed it. You would come to the State Librar...
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Sunday, July 05, 2015

Review Goodies From Bloomsbury And Allen And Unwin!

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And here they are! I admit I've had the Angie Sage and Neil Gaiman books the longest, but be patient and you'll hear about them...
Thursday, July 02, 2015

On Rereading Mark Twain's The Prince And The Pauper

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  Yesterday morning I awoke to ABC Classical FM, which had a film composer theme. The particular piece they were playing was an Erich...
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Just Borrowed From The Library...

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These days I'm only borrowing occasionally, when I can actually get to the local library, but my local library is very good. It has an ...
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Wednesday, July 01, 2015

The Scarlet Rider by Lucy Sussex. Ticonderoga Pulications, 2015

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Mel, an unemployed young woman not long out of university, is offered a job by a small press dedicated to women writers, especially ...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

Continuum 11 - The GoH Speech

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In case you were not at Continuum or just missed it, here's R.J Anderson's GoH speech, which I, alas, missed! But I've now r...
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Friday, June 26, 2015

What I'm Rereading Right Now!

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                                                       Yesterday I got a craving for some alternative universe Richard III fiction. I...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

The Warlock's Child Part 2: An Interview With Sean McMullen

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The Warlock's Child Part 2: An Interview With Sean McMullen And here is Part 2 of the interview with the authors of The Warlock...
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