Smashing the patriarchy really can start with something as simple as giving the right kid the right book.
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Review: The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
The stories I loved writing best back in my journalist days were the ones that made people feel something. Stories that hit them right in the heart, that made a tear (or two or three or more) well in their eyes. Stories that made them catch their breath, that made them want reach out and tell someone about what they’d just read.
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise is just that sort of story.
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The bushfires devastating Australia this summer are wreaking a terrible toll on more than just our landscape. Thousands of homes have been lost to the flames, people are dead and officials can’t even begin to know precisely how many millions of animals have perished.
Continue reading “7 books to help children affected by the bushfires”What to read after Harry Potter
Ah, Harry Potter. You brilliant boy wizard, you. Single-handedly responsible for driving gazillions of kids to pick up a book and read. But what about when that kid has devoured all seven volumes – that’s 1,084,170 words btw – of Potter and co’s adventures? What should a kid read next after everyone graduates from Hogwarts and Voldemort finally gets what’s coming to him?
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Come, they told me, parum-pa-pa-pum. A new Christmas book to read, parum-pa-pa-pum … Okay, so it might not be the version of Little Drummer Boy you’re used to, but that’s how Christmas rolls in our house!
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Remember those Rebel Girls books? The ones that started a publishing phenomenon when they burst onto the book scene a few years back? The ones that spruiked the achievements of amazing women from all over the world in a way that was just right for young girls? Well, come say hello to Rebel Girls’ equally bold, equally brilliant, new sister.
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My youngest kid prefers fact over fiction when it comes to books. And animals are one of his favourite topics. He’s amassed quite the collection of non-fiction animal books over the past few years. With such a bounty of bookish brilliance, we’ve gotten into the habit of reading about a different animal each night in lieu of a traditional bedtime story.
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by Isobel Tandy
Sister Heart is a story that is made up of a series of short poems. It is about the stolen generation and follows the story of Annie, an Aboriginal girl who is taken from her mother by the white men.
Continue reading “Review: Sister Heart by Sally Morgan”15 must-read chapter books set in libraries
I start my first job in a school library this week – I know, right. I can’t believe it either. So I figure what better way to celebrate my new library career than with a smashing list of the best books set in libraries.
Presenting, for your middle-grade and YA reading pleasure, a list of 15 incredibly entertaining junior fiction and YA fiction books about libraries. From libraries where ghosts or demons roam to libraries where kids band together to smite censorship (or just to find a really, really good book), there’s a story to suit every kind of kid library lover.
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YABBA-dabba-do! Australian kids have voted and here’s the top four books they like best, according to the 2019 YABBA Awards.
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Welcome to junior cricket season. Time to pull the cricket kit out of the shed, dust off the deck chairs and learn to deal with grass stains on white pants.
I have four seasons of junior cricket under my belt and still don’t understand how the scoring works. I have no idea when to yell ‘Howzat!’, (hot tip: apparently it’s not when your kid’s bat finally connects with the ball). And I am clueless when it comes to telling a bouncer from a yorker. At least I’m on the front foot when it comes to cricket books.
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