This is my third month of my year long self-challenge to read a book a day – that is 366 books in 366 days, to celebrate the National year of Reading. I must confess that having started strongly in January, and keeping up to target in February, march saw a bit of a slide, and although I’m not yet up to the April report, things are looking a bit grim. When I set myself the challenge I didn’t
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Wow. It's been a busy start to the month, with Do Not Forget Australia released on March 1 and , since then, the blog tour taking me all around the blogosphere. Today is the last day in the tour, so if you haven't managed to grab yourself a copy of the book, pop over to Lorraine's blog where you could win yourself a copy. And, if you want to go back and catch up on the rest of the tour, the
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I'm happy today to welcome Tania McCartney to my blog, here to talk about her excellent new book Australian Story. Over to you, Tania. I adore non-fiction books. Always have. And I’m particularly obsessed with history books . . . anything from fat, scantily-fonted tomes on Julius Caesar through to Horrible Histories laugh-fests for 8- to 12-year-olds. I love them all – and, having studied
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The blog tour for Do Not Forget Australia continues, and today I'm delighted to be visiting Dale Hacrombe's blog and talking about characters. Dale has also posted a lovely review of the book. Do stop by and stay hello. There is a copy of Do Not Forget Australia to be be won!
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Just dropping in briefly to say that today I'm busy answering questions over at Kerri Lane's blog and would love to see you there. There are also copies of Do NotForget Australia to be won! Have a great day.
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Two months into the National Year of Reading, means two months down in my attempt to read 366 books this year. That means it must also be time for an update. So 31 days in January, 29 days in February means, by now, I should have read 60 books. And guess what – that’s exactly where I’m at! On target to get to 366 books. These are the books I read in February: 34 Come Down, Cat Sonya
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Happy happy day! I am really thrilled, excited, delighted, happy and ecstatic to announce that today marks the release of my new book baby, Do Not Forget Australia, published by Walker Books and illustrated by the extraordinarily talented Sonia Kretchsmar. I was lucky enough to speak at the Perth Writer's Festival on the weekend, and got the chance to share Do Not Forget Australia with
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Time for Meg, Anna and I to once again ruminate on a single topic across our three different blogs. If you've been hiding under a rock these past three weeks - or just simply haven't had time to check out our blogs - each week we've been each blogging on our individual blogs on the same topic, and then discussing the similarities and differences in our approaches. Today's topic is, quite
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I still smile whenever I see the cover of Head Hog which, if you haven't been following here, was released late last year. Illustrator Ben Wood did a fabulous job of the illustrations and the finished product is very cute. If you've not yet had a chance to read the book, this could your lucky week, because all this week, Kids Book Review (KBR) are running a giveaway. All you have to do is
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Last week, I got together with the awesome Meg McKinlay and Anna Branford to discuss what it was like to be reviewed. This week we're doing the same thing - three of us posting on the same topic each on our blogs - except on a different topic. This week's topic is what it's like to be edited. I'm going to say two things at the outset. One is that for many aspiring writers, the term editing is
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Things that made me smile this gorgeous February morning: The tousleheadedness of assorted Murphlets as they came out of their rooms after I woke them. Some mornings this worries me (how will we ever get it tidy in time for school), but this morning it just reminded me of when they were little. Seeing a pod of dolphins just off shore when I walked along the beach. I love dolphins. Working out a
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I am drinking a glass of virtual bubbles tonight! I am really excited to announce that Pearl Verses the World has been honoured in the USA, as a Capitol Choices Noteworthy Book for Teens. You can see the listing here, and also read more about the Capitol Choices lists. And, while we're on the subject of Pearl, the stage adaptation of the book is going to running in Canberra from May 18. I was
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I’ve been reviewing books for more than ten years, mainly for my own book review site, aussiereviews. I love sharing the word about books with readers and, along the way, promoting the work of wonderful Australian creators and publishers. But it wasn’t until my own books were published and, subsequently, reviewed that I understood the impact of a review. Reviews are important, in my opinion, for
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It’s a new month, which means one month of my National Year of Reading challenge has passed. If you haven’t been reading my posts, or following my updates on Twitter or Facebook, I’ll explain. This year is the National year of Reading here in Australia. Hooray! A whole year of focus on one of life’s great treasures. All around the country there are events,promotions and challenges
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Another glorious Monday morning in Murphy-world. Things that made me smile this morning: One. Waking up with the knowledge that my beloved is here with me for another week, instead of 300km away like he usually is on Mondays. Two. Diving into my pool and swimming a dozen laps of butterfly (it is not a big pool). At the start of the summer I could manage about 5. Three. Swimming along the
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It's 20 days since I woke up on New Years Day and decided (a little impulsively) to set myself a challenge - to read 366 books this year (you can read my initial post on this here). So I thought it might be time for an update. So far, I'm right on track - I've managed 20 books in 20 days. This is my list so far: 1. Straight Line to My Heart Bill Condon Allen & Unwin Young
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I'm having a busy week (who am I kidding? Every week is a busy week) but just wanted to share a couple of exciting happenings. Firstly, on Sunday the new-look Aussiereviews went live. I've been running the site for over ten years, focusing on reviewing Australian books, and the site was well overdue for an overhaul. My lovely daughter did the new design, and I spent quite a bit of time
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If you want to know more about me, pop over to Monica Kade's Career Confessions blog where you'll find me answering her questions about my writing career. While you're there, check out the confessions by a whole range of inspirational people. Enjoy!
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Happy New Year to you! I had a pretty awesome 2011 but am really excited about the promise of a brand new year and loving that 2012 is the National Year of Reading. Also really excited about my role as local ambassador for Bunbury, WA. I had toyed with the idea of a reading meme for the National Year of Reading, but there are so many other really good ones already that I hesitated to add
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It's almost Christmas Eve. Few people are unfamiliar with this poem - but having it read by voice over artists is a bit different.
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Cats! And dogs. And even the odd goat.
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Modern kids might know about The Chipmunks - but not to many of them know mcuh about viny records and the fun you could have speeding them up. Oh the simpler things in life! I LOVED the Chipmunks in their orginal form.
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Brilliant book for the classroom or for gifting, Tania. I understand some of the problems of this; when I wrote The Children's Book of Australia I continually found that "names" I meant to include were not (by our standards) worthy folk at all. In fact, many of the iconic folks of the past would have been MUCH better NOT to have done what they did. Hindsight is a glorious thing, but
Tania your book sounds fascincating can't wait to read it. Also interesting to hear how much research goes into writing something like this and the selection process aobut what goe in and what goes out.
You should be proud Tania. Putting this book together would have exhausted me.<br /><br />I imagine the culling would have been difficult.<br /><br />I wonder if you could create a book for adults with all of the research you found shocking, confronting and age-inappropriate.
Thanks for dropping in Sally, Cat and Jackie. It is a great book - very well put together. And thanks again for sharing it with us, Tania.
Congratulations Tania. What a mammoth undertaking. And worthwhile resource. I was forced to cut subjects from my last non-fiction book as you did and almost cried at the loss... and the work. Maybe you have another book in the cuts? Well done