Looking forward to John Flanagan’s latest book

Our boys at school love the Ranger’s Apprentice series. It has been a great adventure series. We recently purchased The lost stories (#11 in the Ranger’s Apprentice) which fills in a lot of background to the characters in the series. The stories were in part inspired by the questions the author received from his readers. This book flew [...]

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 [...]

Pottermore – The Harry Potter story continues

The new movie is out soon and many of my students are eagerly awaiting the final movie installment. Now J.K. Rowling has announced that there will be more to the Harry Potter story.  There will be an on-line interactive way to connect to experience the phenomenon that is Harry Potter. Once J. K. Rowling said [...]

Useful sites (weekly)

  by  dianecordell  Free Pictures – Wylio.com A useful site for finding creative commons images to use on a website. It searches flickr & other open photos. You can then resize online and then after it creates the custom code, you cut and paste code into a blog. The image goes onto your site with the proper attribution.   [...]

Shaun Tan wins the 2011 ALMA

More exciting news for the Australian book world and especially Shaun Tan. He has been announced as the winner of this year’s ALMA.  The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) is the world’s largest prize for children’s and young adult literature. The award, which amounts to SEK 5 million, is awarded annually to a single recipient or to several. [...]