Australasia: September 2004 Archives

OZ Awards

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achuka
on September 29, 2004 5:49 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

The Courier-Mail: Literary award winner is no accidental storyteller [30sep04]

Other winners in the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards include: Peter Robb for A Death in Brazil (non-fiction); Carole Wilkinson for Dragonkeeper (children's); Martine Murray for How to Make a Bird (young adult); Tara June Winch for Dust on Waterglass (David Unaipon Award); JM Coetzee for Elizabeth Costello (fiction); Sturat Macintyre and Anna Clark for The History Wars (public debate); Inga Clendinnen for Dancing with Strangers (history); Alana Valentine for Run Rabbit Run (stage drama); Blake Ayshford for The Cooks (television script); Sarah Watt for Look Both Ways (film script); Eva Sallis for Mahjar (Steele Rudd Award); Judith Beveridge for Wolf Notes (poetry); Sonya Pemberton for Genius of Junk (science).

More On That Bad Book

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achuka
on September 29, 2004 5:47 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

The dangers of making kid's reading fun-free - Opinion - www.theage.com.au

In Bad Books

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achuka
on September 26, 2004 10:10 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Bad Book 'not good enough' - Books - www.theage.com.au

Andy Griffiths has got himself into the bad books of some children's booksellers and conference organisers with the latest title by him and his illustrator Terry Denton, The Bad Book, previously mentioned in a blogged report...

Children's bookseller Kate Colley, of Bloomin' Books at Caringbah in Sydney, said: "I'm not a prude, and a lot of the book is fun. But after reading the whole thing, I couldn't sleep."

Ms Colley cited the stories of a grandmother eating her own excrement, a child setting a cat on fire, and a mother sending her child across a six-lane road to be run over by a truck.

"This is the first book I've refused to stock in 15 years," she said. "But some of us have to take a stand . . . I don't think children need this, with so much violence going on."

NZ Review

By
achuka
on September 23, 2004 6:57 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Entertainment News - Joanna Orwin: Out of Tune

NZ review of Out Of Tune by Joanna Orwin

DIfficult Market

By
achuka
on September 12, 2004 9:09 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Small print - Books - www.smh.com.au

Think writing a best-selling children's book is as easy as a game of hopscotch? Alexa Moses discovers many an adult horror story in the literary schoolyard.

Excellent Australian feature about the children's book market.

Highly recommended

Lianza Award Winners

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achuka
on September 7, 2004 6:55 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Scoop: LIANZA Children's Book Awards Winners

The LIANZA Children's Book awards are regarded as New Zealand's most prestigious children's book awards by writers and illustrators throughout New Zealand. Each award consists of a medal or taonga and a monetary prize of $1000

Mahy Presents Awards

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achuka
on September 6, 2004 7:14 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Scoop: Six Times Winner Mahy to present Awards


The 2004 winner of the Esther Glen Medal, New Zealand's longest standing literary award, will be announced by Margaret Mahy at the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA)'s annual conference at Sky City Convention Centre in Auckland today....

Bad Book

By
achuka
on September 5, 2004 9:45 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

The Mercury: Rude, crude but oh, so popular [04sep04]

CHILDREN'S author Andy Griffiths has described his latest collection of stories, The Bad Book, as 52 cases of failure to provide children with uplifting and thought-provoking literature.

Australian Awards

By
achuka
on September 1, 2004 7:13 AM | | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

Book Council Awards ? ABC Great Southern

Report on Australia's Book Council Awards...

Includes sound extract from Book of the Year for early childhood readers, Carole Wilkinson's "Dragonkeeper" (Black Dog Books).


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