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When American writer Dallas Clayton decided to write a book for his young son, he knew the book’s theme would be on dreaming big. Penning the text in 10 minutes and taking 6 months to complete the illustrations, Clayton may have chosen a big dreams theme for his story, but he surely never dreamed how [...]
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When Australian grandmother of eight, Robyn Smith, took on the exotic nom de plume of Mimi King, it wasn’t the only major change in her life. After a lifetime of teaching and reading countless children’s books to both her students and her own children, King took the only logical step necessary – she wrote her [...]
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Oh, I love a kids’ chapter book that aims so directly at its audience, you can hear the bulls-eye thud of its literary arrow. Talented young Australian author, Ingrid Jonach (pictured), has created a warm, funny and frank character in her Frank Frankie series of books aimed at 7-12 year olds. The first in the [...]
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Having voraciously read all the Harry Potter books, I must admit it didn’t even dawn on me to pick up a copy of the companion novelettes – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages. I guess I thought they were really reserved for Pottermaniacs (okay, so I’m also a Pottermaniac [...]
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“…What happens if your sixth-grade science teacher is also your immortal enemy..?” I must admit, I’m a little bit chicken. Part lioness, part monkey, part chicken. I’ve watched legions of fans devour the Twilight series (some young enough to be my own kids) whilst standing from afar with a wreath of garlic around my neck [...]
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Beatle Meets Destiny is the first young adult novel from former advertising copy writer and author of Two Canadian Clubs and Dry at the Martini Den, Gabrielle Williams (pictured). Set in Melbourne, the book has just been optioned to be made into a major feature film. When your name is John Lennon but everyone calls [...]
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It’s just so glorious to read a magical story that’s not steeped in the stereotypical fairies, wizards, goblins or mysteriously shifting worlds that appear in the blink of an eye or through some unseeming earthly portal. Since Enid Blyton sent us on Wishing Chair and Magic Faraway Tree adventures and CS Lewis penned his superlative [...]
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The dreamlike opening of Cicada Summer was a little painful to read. Having lost my mother far too many years ago, it was a little heartbreaking to realise, within moments of opening this junior fiction novel, that its young lead character was motherless. Moments into the dreamlike sequence, Eloise – an artistic, thoughtful and observant [...]
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It’s been a very long time since I’ve read a young fiction novel. So long, in fact, that when I finished reading Angel Cake by British author Cathy Cassidy, I felt thirteen again. Really. It was like stepping back in time, feeling all those adolescent emotions once more. It also felt wonderful to be reminded [...]
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It’s 10am on a Friday morning and Sue Whiting is somewhere in New York City – her guide is a young adult who has a story to tell and Sue is intrigued. As she listens to the teenager’s story she hears a familiar sound calling her back to a small coastal village south of Sydney [...]
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