Robbie Arnott is an exciting Australian author (see my review of The Rain Heron for the Weekend Australian and Flames. His novel Limberlost continues to win accolades so here is my omnibus review for the Weekend Australian, accompanied by Carol Lefevre’s The Tower and The Sun Walks Down. (I’ve reproduced it because it is otherwise […]
Read More LIMBERLOST by Robbie ArnottGlass HousesAnne CoombsUpswellReviewed by Joy LawnReleased April 2023PaperbackISBN 9780645536836RRP $29.99Category: Fiction Glass Houses by Anne Coombs (published by Upswell) (This review was commissioned by Books+Publishing and is reproduced with permission) Glass Houses is Anne Coombs’s (Sex and Anarchy: The life and death of the Sydney Push) posthumous final novel. Perched on a ‘neglected hillside’ near the […]
Read More GLASS HOUSES by anne coombsWhere the Lyrebird Lives by Vikki Conley, illustrated by Max Hamilton Published by Windy Hollow Books Inside the CBCA Shortlist Inside the 2023 CBCA Shortlist Inside the 2023 Notable Books Author & Illustrator Interview Where the Lyrebird Lives by Vikki Conley, illustrated by Max Hamilton (Windy Hollow Books) is a celebration of the Australian bush […]
Read More Where the Lyrebird Lives by Vikki Conley illustrated by Max HamiltonLove Letter to LolaCarmel BirdSpineless WondersReviewed by Joy LawnReleased May 2023PaperbackISBN 9781925052961RRP $24.99Category: Adult Fiction Love Letter to Lola by Carmel Bird (published by Spineless Wonders) (This review was commissioned by Books+Publishing and is reproduced with permission) Carmel Bird was the recipient of the 2016 Patrick White Literary Award and is a respected author of […]
Read More Love Letter to Lola by Carmel BirdANZAC & Gallipoli picture books I reviewed these books for the SMH/The Age in 2015 – so it is a review of its time. Thanks to Susan Wyndham for commissioning the review. ***** Gallipoli books for children open an enlightening window on the reality of war SYDNEY MORNING HERALD/THE AGE April 25, 2015 By Joy […]
Read More ANZAC & Gallipoli Picture BooksBOWERBIRD BLUES by Aura Parker On Writing and Illustrating BOWERBIRD BLUES Guest author/illustrator post at PaperbarkWords blog by Aura Parker My latest creation, Bowerbird Blues is a picture book about longing, searching and love. A story which has slowly simmered along over the last few tumultuous years and means a great deal to me. My […]
Read More BOWERBIRD BLUES by Aura ParkerBig Tree by Brian Selznick Big Tree Book Review by Joy Lawn (Joy in Books) at PaperbarkWords blog Brian Selznick’s first major work The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a seminal book. Its combination of page after page of black and white drawings interspersed with pages of written text and its setting in a 1930s […]
Read More Big Tree by Brian SelznickA is for Australian Reefs by Frané Lessac Inside the CBCA Shortlist Inside the 2023 CBCA Shortlist Inside the 2023 Notable Books A is for Australian Reefs by Frané Lessac (published Walker Books Australia) A is for Australian Reefs is the latest in Frané Lessac’s impressive body of picture books. Her books are distinctive for […]
Read More A is for Australian Reefs by Frané LessacSnap! by Anna Walker Inside the CBCA Shortlist Inside the 2023 CBCA Shortlist Inside the 2023 Notable Books Snap! By Anna Walker (published Scribble Kids’ Books) Snap! is an exuberant gem of a picture book for young readers and will also be relished by those who share it with them. It is the dramatic tale […]
Read More Snap! by Anna WalkerItty Bitty Kittyby Maddy Mara, illustrated by Noémie Geonet Landry Itty Bitty Kitty 1 & 2 is published by Affirm Press Maddy Mara writes a Guest Author post for PaperbarkWords: Maddy Mara on creative collaborations, and the Itty Bitty Kitty series The first thing you should know about Maddy Mara is that ‘she’ is actually […]
Read More Itty Bitty Kitty by Maddy Mara, illustrated by Noémie Geonet Landry
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