Hall Leanne 9781921656521 United Book Distributors 02 Aug 2010 NYP Over the weekend I was fortunate enough to read Leanne Hall’s much anticipated debut novel This Is Shyness. (Clicking on the cover illustration will take you to Leanne’s Blog) I will not be posting my full review at this time, rather I will wait until [...]
The Library at Manor Lakes College has been abuzz this week with excited students and teachers enjoying three days of writing workshops with Tim Pegler. It has been months in the planning but well worth the wait. Tim has charmed our Year 7 and 8 students with his witty repertoire of stories of how and [...]
ONCE Morris Gleitzman gave the world a story that began with; “Once I was living in an orphanage in the mountains and I shouldn’t have been and I almost caused a riot. It was because of the carrot.” And so we the reader met Felix, a boy who would live on in our memories forever. [...]
I have an apology to make. Mind you, I dont HAVE to apologize, for there is only one other person on the planet besides myself who actually knows what I am about to apologize for. But. I am always telling my children and my students how important it is to admit when you are wrong, [...]
“‘Will you walk into my parlour’, said the Spider to the Fly…” Most all of us are familiar with the opening line of Mary Howitt’s 173 year old poem The Spider and The Fly. This poem remains as a timeless warning to children and adults everywhere to beware of the charming facade of those who [...]
Set in the early 1900′s in a small South Australian town called Towitta, A Girl Like Me- Penny Matthews, is based on real events. The central characters Emily and Bertha couldn’t be more different. Emily comes from a well bred, middle class, English family and Bertha is the youngest daughter of a hardworking, lower class, [...]
It is unusual for me to read a ‘grown-up’ book and ordinarily I would not review it here on the blog. House Rules- Jodi Picoult, however is quite suitable for Young Adults and I would highly recommend it for students in Years 10, 11 and 12. Jodi Picoult is famous for her ability to predict [...]
