Adrian Stirling’s second novel, The Comet Box, is secretly a time machine. The very act of reading it will transport you instantly back to 1986. The sights, sounds and scents of a typical Australian summer are but a page turn away…except for one thing. Most of us (I hope) did not have the added emotional [...]
Excitement PLUS for me guys! Its announced and official! Lets not forget that this is THE prize that bought us the likes of Richard Newsome, Leanne Hall and most recently Jane Higgins. (The Bridge to be released August 1st 2011) The Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing is going from strength to strength. [...]
My son is studying Nadia Wheatley’s wonderful book My Place, in class. He is enthralled! He has long been fascinated by history and Australian history has always been a favourite of his. In fact he has been watching the My Place TV series avidly for sometime. In an effort to help him explore the book [...]
This is truly lovely…click on the image below to be taken to the interactive book. “To celebrate the exhibition Look! The art of Australian picture books today, the State Library of Victoria ran an illustration competition for children aged 2 to 12. Sally Rippin created a magical short story especially for us, called The Dream-spinner. [...]
Forgive me, one and all, while I take a ‘proud librarian moment’ (otherwise known as PLM), but one of my students was recently selected to be an Inky’s Judge. Iain is one of our Year 9 students here at MLC and he established himself early on as an avid reader and library enthusiast. I kid [...]
Meg Rosoff 9780141329338 United Book Distributors 29 Mar 2010 Listening recently to my dear friend Nicole talk about her love for Meg Rosoff’s- How I Live Now, I decided a revisit of the novel was in order, since it had been some years since I read it. I will not be reviewing How I Live [...]
