The Lorikeet Tree by Paul Jennings The Lorikeet Tree by Paul Jennings (published in Australia by Allen & Unwin and by Old Barn Books in the US) is nominated for the highly prestigious 2024 Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing. This extraordinary middle-fiction (middle-grade) novel only solidifies Paul Jennings’s outstanding reputation. Some of his previous books […]
Read More The Lorikeet Tree & the Carnegie MedalAsk Aunty: Seasons (An introduction to First Nations Seasons) By Aunty Munya Andrews Illustrated by Charmaine Ledden-Lewis Published by Hardie Grant Explore Ask Aunty: Seasons by Aunty Munya Andrews with illustrations by Charmaine Ledden-Lewis is published by Hardie Grant Explore. Available in stores nationally from 15 November, RRP $24.99. “I love my culture and I love […]
Read More Ask Aunty: Seasons (An introduction to First Nations seasons)The Drowning by Bryan Brown (published by Allen & Unwin) Author interview with Bryan Brown The Drowning is a compulsive, gritty crime novel with plenty of dry Australian humour. It grabs your attention from the start because it is so easy to read. It has a large cast of male and female characters. We are […]
Read More Bryan Brown Interview ‘The Drowning’Dirrarn by Carl Merrison & Hakea Hustler Illustrated by Dub Leffler Published by Magabala Books “Mia felt so far from home. Growing up in a remote outback community, she had still faced her share of bullies. She’s dealt with it in her own way then. Telling a teacher sometimes worked, other times a big brother […]
Read More Dirrarn by Carl Merrison & Hakea HustlerBon and Lesley by Shaun Prescott Author Interview at Paperbark Words “You’d be surprised how many places elude maps, you can fairly easily stray from the known world entirely. And you’re not paying attention if you think it’s untrue, but you must know it anyway because you got off the train. You always thought these […]
Read More Bon and Lesley by Shaun PrescottTiger Daughter by Rebecca Lim (Allen & Unwin) Book review by Joy Lawn When young teen Wen Zhou is stalked by two men at night, in Tiger Daughter by author and lawyer Rebecca Lim, she is caught between fear and rage. She is the daughter of Chinese immigrants and has been given a boy’s name because “it’s bad […]
Read More Tiger Daughter by rececca LimReviews > Back to the StorksCressida Gaukroger, illus Andrew JoynerLittle HareReviewed by Joy LawnReleased October 2023HardbackISBN 9781761211874RRP $22.99Category: Children’s picture book Back to the Storks (Cressida Gaukroger, illus Andrew Joyner, Little Hare) 8 August 2023 Unlocked content from the archive. Books+Publishing (This review was commissioned by Books+Publishing and is reproduced with permission.) Back to the Storks plays on […]
Read More BACK TO THE STORKS by CRESSIDA GAUKROGER, ILLUS ANDREW JOYNERAffirming, Fun Picture Books by Affirm Picture Books & More Reviews by Joy in Books at Paperbark Words blog All books reviewed in this survey are published by Affirm Press There’s something magical happening at Affirm Press. A small independent press, they are absolutely punching above their weight by publishing many of Australia’s best picture book creators (as well […]
Read More Affirming, Fun Picture BooksWorld by Martine Murray & Anna Read (published Parachute Press) World is a 2024 CBCA Notable book in the Picture Book of the Year category. Congratulations. Chloe Hooper describes World in her cover puff as, “A wise and generous fable with a vital message”. Martine Murray first came to my attention in 2001 with her novel […]
Read More World by Martine Murray & Anna ReadBody FriendKatherine BrabonUltimoReviewed by Joy LawnReleased September 2023PaperbackISBN 9781761151781RRP $34.99Category: Fiction Body Friend (Katherine Brabon, Ultimo) 25 July 2023 Unlocked content from the archive. Books+Publishing (This review was commissioned by Books+Publishing and is reproduced with permission.) Katherine Brabon distinguished herself with her first novels, The Memory Artist and The Shut Ins, but she has surpassed these and reached an […]
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