Posted by Unknown | 4:20 PM

As I flagged in a previous post on the 2008 Children’s Book Council Awards (CBC), the winner of the Picture Book section “…will cause quite...

0 comments Labels: children's literature, graphic novels, Indigenous issues, literature, Matt Ottley

Posted by Unknown | 10:00 PM

Kids ask lots of questions. Sometimes their questions don’t move beyond “Why Mum?”. Professor Michelle Chouinard’s (professor of psycholog...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:40 PM

As my last post on the 2008 Children's Book Council Awards indicated, the book Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley , written and illustrat...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:30 AM

As I mentioned in my last post , it's Children's Book Week in Australia from 16th-22nd August. The winners and honour books were ann...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:00 PM

Children's book week is next week (from 16 to 22 August). Schools and public libraries will be the major sites for activities that prom...

0 comments Labels: awards, CBCA awards, children's literature, reading

Posted by Unknown | 10:40 PM

Twitter is one of a number of microblogging tools that ask users to tell friends what they’re doing in 140 characters or less. It's a s...

0 comments Labels: communication, Internet, literacy