Vikki Wakefield and Fiona Wood
Tuesday, 28 August 2012 6:30-8:00 pm Village Roadshow Theatrette, State Library of Victoria (Entry 3, La Trobe Street) Free (bookings required: inquiries@slv.vic.gov.au) Join us for...
View Article‘Net News: 24th September 2012
1. Coming soon… Remember when Hardie Grant Egmont caught everyone’s attention earlier this year with the Ampersand Project? Well, they’ve now announced that Melissa Keil is the first author to be...
View ArticleBook List: Banned Books Week
With a tagline like ‘celebrating the freedom to read’ is it no wonder bannedbooksweek.org is a favourite? For thirty years banned book week been reporting on book censorship in America. Hundreds of...
View ArticleBook Review: See You at Harry’s by Jo Knowles
Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible. It seems as though everyone in her family has better things to do than pay attention to her: Mom (when she’s not meditating) helps Dad run “Harry’s,” the family...
View ArticleNet News: 10th December 2012
1. YALSA Book List: International Day of Persons with Disabilities. December the 3rd was International Day of Persons with Disabilities. We’re very lucky in Children’s books that there appears to be a...
View ArticleLove in the time of reading
A wise teacher once told me that I should never teach a book that wasn’t a story that I loved. I was in my first year of teaching, idealistic and full of beans. It is a philosophy I still believe in...
View ArticleWhere are the teens in teen book awards?
Photo: Miler Lagos, Book Igloo Earlier this week the American Library Association announced their 2013 Youth Media awards, sparking immediate discourse on Twitter and listserv about the winners and...
View ArticleCamaraderie, Diversity, Books, Teenagers – Ellie Marney on #YAmatters
Ellie Marney, author of the Every series for Young Adults, reflects on the 11th biennial Reading Matters… I’m still a newbie. My first book was only published in 2013, which was the year of the...
View ArticleInky Awards Ambassadors and Resource Kits
2016 marks a decade of the Inky Awards. The Awards, which recognise high-quality young adult literature, are judged entirely by teen readers. ‘The Inky Awards are a great opportunity to give...
View ArticleNew Inside a Dog Learning Resources
With the launch of our new and improved Inside a Dog, some of you may have noticed that the teaching resources have disappeared form the site. Our primary goal in redesigning the website was to...
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