Another Morris Gleitzman novel and another young girl who has to struggle against society to keep her family together. That sounds dismissive when I really don’t mean it to be. This is a great read – suitable for younger readers as well as adults with a potentially powerful message regarding religion, church and faith.
As [...]
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It has been a weekend of graphic novels. For some reason, there just happened to be three all lined up in my bag on Friday afternoon so I was compelled to finish them.
Skim is the most problematic. It describes a young girl’s journey through a high school year and is full of questions about [...]
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Undoubtedly, one of the highlights of the year for us in Australia is the announcement of the Children’s Book Council Awards. The winners have been announced and can be found here.
It is no surprise to me that the winner of the Older Readers’ section is Shaun Tan’s Tales from Outer Suburbia. It is one [...]
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Thanks to Ruth Buchanan at Skerricks, I have been following the pre-release hype about the upcoming movie versions of what would be one of my favourite picture books of all time. I am curious to see how they will turn what is really a fairly short picture book into a feature film. How much [...]
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Many book series claim and demonstrate a story structured along a core ‘timeline’ that links all minor details in a chronicle to a coherent ending. K.J. Parker’s ‘engineer trilogy’, in contrast, achieves this literally.
This compelling tale, set within the technologies of 12th Century humanity, leads an elaborate filament between the 1st person viewpoints from fascinating [...]
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The latest issue of NewScientist magazine has an interview with the great Stephen Fry about a range of things, including his own fascination with technology. The full article can be read online here but I thought I would just share an interesting quote from it:
Can humans and technology coexist happily?
I admit the change is strong [...]
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Really? How interesting…
A few weeks ago I posted an entry regarding the various merits or otherwise of audio books. Were they the same as reading, per se? Was it the same experience? Is one better than another?
I came out of a discussion with some staff about the purposes of reading. Why do we make some [...]
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