Because I’m stretched for time (when am I not?) I’m not doing anything in particular today. I’ve got a presentation tomorrow for my Communication tute with my topic being the Future of Games, it’s taken up too much of my time as my memory has challenges. The research I did early on ...

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Pippa’s Perfect Ponytail by Julie Nickerson It’s that time of week when I head out in the wilds of the internet and find an Australian author. The hunt was exhaustive, I hunted high and low and every bit in between…to be honest all I did was check my spreadsheet and ...

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Sophie Masson is a fascinating writer, she seems to have a wide range of abilities. From fantasy to historical war fiction to non-fictional essays. I found this one and was very impressed with the information and the writing style, very easy to read. I fell in love with the name of this ...

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I’m writing about Kalkipsakis solely because of a review I found online. It’s a shortlived blog and when you read it you’ll understand that some children have a greater attention span than others and this was probably one of those who started the blog then became bored but I fell ...

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Jinny & Cooper by Tania Ingram I came across Ingram today and loved Cooper. Cooper is a pet rat who helps Jinny get through things and if you love Cooper as much as I do then you can go to Ingram’s website and down the pattern so your child can have ...

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Who else would I write about for F? Actually, there is Jackie French but I think Fox is more appropriate. Born 1946 with rather interesting ideas and now semi-retired. Her first book, Possum Magic, was written in 1978 but it took five years and several publishers before someone in Omnibus ...

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Who else would be a suitable person to write about for this letter but the ever popular Hazel Edwards? Her most popular book There’s a Hippopotamus on the Roof Eating Cake, is so popular it’s been made into a short film and you can find a clip of it here by Pocket ...

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Today’s Friday Photos is brought to you by Ironbird Books in Port Fairy, not that they’re paying me for this as they’re not but that every photo today was taken there. I probably should have mentioned to them my predilection for taking photos in bookshops and why but I didn’t. ...

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Game of the Goose by Ursula Dubosarsky While I haven’t read Ursula Dubosarsky I have been fascinated by her ever since I came across one of her books in the op shop. It’s a natural progression from there to writing about her today. Being born in 1961 makes her a young ...

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Superman III by William Kotzwinkle Just filling in the last letter of my series on Male Science Fiction Authors, I was rather remiss and I’m making amends. I found this book at a market last week and realised I didn’t need to search for another author. It was at the St ...

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Introducing Teddy by Jessica Walton, Illustrated by Dougal MacPherson It’s always a lovely surprise to receive a book but to receive one like this is even more lovely. This came into my P.O. Box yesterday and I read it with pleasure…there aren’t many books like this around. Teddy knows in ...

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The thing about self publishing is that it’s entirely possible to write and publish a book without any reference to anyone else, before sending it off to a blogger/reviewer for review. With this method there are no checks and balances, no editing or proofreading other than that provided by the ...

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This is the last article dedicated to the Book Expo of 2015. I’ll try to remember to mention it when I scribble a few words about the books I got there. Waves in the Desert by Kimberly Beadle Beadle is donating some of her sales to Oxfam, putting her money where her ...

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Jane Yolen: born in 1939 has done so, so much this post should be in shorthand in order to encompass even a fraction of her output, instead I’ll only give a few highlights that I’ve found. She’s written over 300 books in fantasy, science fiction and children’s literature, Yolen has ...

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While I ponder Friday Photos I’ll keep posting. I totally agree, it is a fold down seat but does it fold up again? Found this lovely little display in a book shop in Box Hill but can I remember where it was? That same window asked a question Where has ...

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