100 School Days by Deborah Frenkel and Laura Stitzel Published by Affirm Press Guest Author Post by Deborah Frenkel about 100 School Days Thank you for speaking to Joy in Books at PaperbarkWords blog about your picture book 100 School Days, Deborah. You are having a heyday with your excellent picture books, The Truck Cat amongst them. Deborah explains in her […]
Read More 100 School Days By Deborah Frenkel and Laura StitzelSaturday, Sunday by Natalie Kate Forbes, illustrated by Danny Snell Published by Affirm Press Guest Author Post by Natalie Kate Forbes about Saturday, Sunday Thank you for speaking to Joy in Books at PaperbarkWords blog about your new picture book, Natalie. Saturday, Sunday captures many people’s weekends with its mixture of busyness and relaxation and will particularly resonate with young families. […]
Read More Saturday, Sunday by Natalie Kate Forbes, illustrated by Danny SnellIsobelle Carmody & Comes the Night Published by Allen & Unwin Author interview with Isobelle Carmody ‘Will marvelled all over again that people would try to stop their government building domes. Didn’t they know how bad the air was, how dangerous the sunlight? Domes were designed to filter both, and to screen out damaging radiation. […]
Read More Isobelle Carmody and Comes the NightLeo and Ralph by Peter Carnavas (University of Queensland Press) Winner of the Children’s Book category of the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards Author/illustrator Interview at PaperbarkWords “Leo dropped the telescope and rolled over, laughing. Ralph always cracked him up like that. They had … dreamt of planets with funny names, imagined the creatures that lived […]
Read More Leo and Ralph by Peter CarnavasDOG BEACH by Julie Murphy & Annie White NLA Publishing Guest Author Post by Julie Murphy about Dog Beach Thank you for speaking to Joy in Books at PaperbarkWords blog, Julie. The Story Behind the Story of DOG BEACH DOG BEACH is a short, rhyming picture book for ages 3 – 6. It features a range of dogs running amuck […]
Read More DOG BEACH by Julie Murphy & Annie WhiteBush Restaurant Redfern Sydney Thanks for speaking with Paperbark Words, Grant & Holly. Grant, you’ve now celebrated 5 years of Bush in Redfern. Did you imagine you’d be in Redfern for 5 years and continually growing even better and stronger. What has surprised you? What is something about this that makes you happy? I chose […]
Read More BushThunderhead by Sophie Beer Author Interview at PaperbarkWords “I know that what I’m going through right now is the rather unfortunate end result of a few troublesome cells. It isn’t the universe conspiring against me. It’s just bad luck, a random event in a meaningless mess. But I read somewhere that humans are programmed to […]
Read More Thunderhead by Sophie BeerThe Truck Cat by Deborah Frenkel, illustrated by Danny Snell Published by Bright Light (Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing) Author/illustrator Interview at PaperbarkWords “Some cats are house cats. Some are apartment cats. Some cats live on farms. Some live in the city. But Tinka was a truck cat.” (The Truck Cat) Welcome and thank you for […]
Read More The Truck Cat by Deborah Frenkel, illustrated by Danny SnellThe Serpent Rider by Yxavel Magno Dino Bloomsbury Children’s Books With roots in Filipino folklore, The Serpent Rider by Yxavel Magno Dino is an original and intriguing middle-fiction fantasy. Yxavel is now based in Sydney and has written a discerning piece about her novel below. Please note that The Serpent Rider is published in Australia […]
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