Today’s post is from the team at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, a Victorian Government initiative and the centrepiece of Melbourne’s designation as a UNESCO City of Literature. The Wheeler Centre is dedicated to the discussion and practice of writing and ideas. Through out each year it has a programme of talks and lectures, readings [...]

This post is a combined effort from me and my soon to be 13 year old son. He listed titles he has read over the last year that he thinks most 13 year old boys will like and gave me a brief description of each. (And in the true form of a teenager some of [...]

Book Week in Australia this year is August 20th – 26th. The theme in 2011 is One World, Many Stories highlighting the ways in which cultural difference can be expressed and celebrated through literature. I love Book Week and the way children’s literature has such a focus that week in schools and in the lead [...]

Today’ gorgeous post is from Karen at Earthly Joyride, reading it started to make me feel super Christmassy in all the right ways. Karen is passionate about reading to children. Her blog offers lots of inspiration for selecting picture books and she shares ideas for creating art with children. *** Christmas books are no different [...]

The day this book arrived in the mail, I didn’t have time to sit down and read it straight away to my four year old. We had just come home from running errands and I needed to get the toddler into his cot for a nap. While I settled the toddler, the preschooler “read” the [...]

Having not heard of Sonya Hartnett before this year, this is now the third book that I have read from this fantastic Australian author. Her skill as a writer is evident as she transverses genres from children’s picture books like the exquisite The Boy and The Toy , to adult fiction like the touching and [...]