Articles tagged “young adult”
‘We don’t need no education...’
I’d like to think that Roger Waters would think twice about his gloomy 1979 proclamation today.
Publicist Stephanie Speight spent a rewarding couple of days at the 2015 Reading Matters Conference with Text authors Laurie Halse Anderson and Clare Wright.
On the first day of Reading Matters there were tears, laughter, shock, awe and some extremely delicious brownies.
We’re thrilled that Laurie Halse Anderson is down under as a guest of the Auckland and Sydney Writers Festivals, and the State Library of Victoria’s Reading Matters Youth Literature Conference.
Congratulations to Melissa Rymer, winner of a magical Yarra Valley hot-air-balloon adventure of a lifetime, who shared the experience with Renzo, Sebastian and Nicholas on an exhilarating morning in March.
We’re thrilled that two of our books are on the Children’s Book Council Awards (CBCA) shortlists: The Minnow by Diana Sweeney (Books for Older Readers) and A–Z of Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land by Simon Barnard (Eve Pownall Award for Information Books).
I first encountered James Aldridge’s books in the Kangaroo Flat Library when I was a braces-wearing, freckled eleven-year-old in zinc cream and Ken Done shorts.
Jill Fitzsimons, English teacher at Whitefriars College, interviewed Kate Grenville about her novel The Lieutenant, which is a set text for the VCE English 'Encountering Conflict' context.
