Raising Readers Megan Daley is a champion of Australian children’s literature and the authors and illustrators who create these quality Australian books. She is well-known as a blogger – Children’s Books Daily – and has won several awards, including the national Dromkeen Librarian’s Award. Her first book Raising Readers: How to nurture a child’s love […]
Read More Raising Readers by Megan DaleyDuring the next few months leading up to Book Week in August I will be writing about the 30 CBCA shortlisted books. Congratulations to all the authors, illustrators and publishers who have been shortlisted. A thought-provoking picture book is Chalk Boy by Margaret Wild, illustrated by Mandy Ord (Allen & Unwin). Barnaby is a pavement […]
Read More Chalk Boy by Margaret Wild & Mandy OrdLeigh Sales is a prominent Australian journalist. She is uncompromising in her interview style but clearly has a soft heart and is affected by many of the stories she presents. In her latest book Any Ordinary Day (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Books) she grapples with people’s reactions to severe trauma – death of a close loved […]
Read More Any Ordinary Day by Leigh SalesGravity is the Thing (Pan Macmillan Australia) is now in a bookshop or street library near you. Anything is possible in a Jaclyn Moriarty novel. You never know where she will take you. Remember the audacious Betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie, one of the ‘Ashbury/Brookfield’ books for young adults; the unique, colourful world of the […]
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