The Inky Awards – 2011 long list

It is not long before the CBCA winners are announced and so it is also the time for this year’s Inky’s  awards to be considered. Friday saw the announcement of the long lists. The Inkys are international awards for teenage (or YA) novels and are co-ordinated by the Centre for Youth Literature via insideadog. This year we will be [...]

Useful sites (weekly)

  by  lynetter   HowStuffWorks “Top 5 Google Killers — That Didn’t” “Google is the world’s search engine leader. But that doesn’t mean every other company has given up on dethroning the king. See why so far no company has had what it takes.” BBC – Writersroom – Writing Resources Writing resources and tips for the screen, radio, theatre, [...]

CBCA Book of the Year 2010 Winners

I was very pleased that Jarvis 24 was the CBCA winner this year. This is a great book for the boys at our school. It is set in Melbourne, has Aussie Rules football as a background and a young man going through some easily  identifiable teenage concerns. I wrote a post about a video interview with David Metzenthen. In [...]

Students reading (or not)

I liked this video (from HeinemannVideos). One of my main aims as a teacher librarian is to help students become not just competent readers but young people who enjoy reading. When I was at university (a long time ago now!) it was suggested to me by one of my lecturers that giving young people some choice [...]

Inky Award winners 2009

The Inky Awards were announce this morning. It would have been wonderful to be there (stocktaking however must go on!)  but I am very pleased with  he winners anyway. These awards are a celebration of the best in Young Adult literature as voted by the YA readers.  The Golden Inky (for the best Australian title) winner was: [...]