As you are all aware, The Book Gryffin has been heavily reliant on the reviews of my talented and well read students, owing to my commitments to the Aurealis Award’s. I am sure you will all agree they are doing a spectacular job of keeping you all informed about the vast array of quality Young [...]
There are NO words for how INCREDIBLY, FANTASTICALLY EXCITED I am about this guys!!!! The Lovely Victoria Schwab, author of the yet to be released YA novel- ‘The Near Witch’ has finally been able to reveal to us and you and the world THE COVER OF THE NEAR WITCH!!!!!!! I have to tell you my [...]
The lovely Tegan Miller has returned with another review!!!! I swear, without her and my other fabulous guest reviewers, this blog would be sooooooooooo boring….I had a little giggle over this one guys, our Miss Tegan sure doesn’t pull any punches! Sigh, remember wht it was like to be 13 and have SO much time to [...]
I think we will all agree, this young lady is ON FIRE! Tegan brings us another review. She has gotten SO great at this I am considering letting her take over the Blog all together…. I have never read any were-wolf books before, and after reading this, any other were-wolf book would have to be [...]
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. [...]
As a formerly trained classical ballerina of 13 years, I usually demur to read books about ballet dancers. Mostly because the author always fails to encapsulate adequately (in my opinion) the feeling a ballerina experiences whilst dancing. When I was given a copy of Dancing In The Dark- Robyn Bavati, I absentmindedly turned it over [...]
Recently I and group of students were fortunate enough to enjoy a writing workshop with Tim Pegler, whereupon I enthused to him how much I had enjoyed his book. I was positive I had read an ARC some time ago. 3 days ago I decided that his book ‘Game As Ned’ would be a great [...]
