Monday, February 24, 2025

Meet the Canadian illustrator Julie Flett

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Canadian Book Week 2025 Poster by Julie Flett When I started working on kids’ books, I was learning about the languages that my grandparents...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Blurb or endorsement

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Image source: Fictionary There is a half-page article ( it is behind a paywall ) in our Sydney Morning Herald this weekend written by author...
Saturday, February 22, 2025

Meet Mac Barnett in this interview with Jon Klassen

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Mac Barnett is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature When I saw this post today,  so many viewpoints by Mac Barnett reso...

Good Night, Good Beach by Joy Cowley illustrated by Hilary Jean Tapper

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Joy Cowley is a master of rhyme and pace. The text is minimal but it has such a pleasing cadence. This is made all the richer by the way Hil...
Friday, February 21, 2025

One Little Bag by Henry Cole

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One Little Bag is a wordless book - these are sometimes referred to as textless books and IBBY call them Silent Books - but of course they a...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Lotus and Feather by Ji-Li Jiang illustrated by Julie Downing

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Lotus has been unwell, and her illness has taken her voice away. The other children no longer invite her to play. She lives with her kind, w...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Read the book!

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This post on Facebook shocked me last week - not the content - the fact that this teacher did not think he/she should have read the book fir...