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cold comfort
Child: how old are you ( Read more... ) -
ANOTHER post about children and stories
One of my year 4 girls, H, hurt herself today. As she's one of the kids most obsessed with 'The Adventures of Ruby Ransome', I suggested she help me brainstorm names for upcoming episodes. Another child, A, (year 5 and also obsessed with RR) joined in ( Read more... ) -
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Children: Tell us a story! Tell us a story! Pleeeaaase?
Child: Tell us The Hobbit!
Me: In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit...
Childen: and...
Me: I don't remember the rest.
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Epic Fail
I have just finished Forever, the third and final book in Maggie Stiefvater’s Wolves of Mercy Falls series. I read quite a lot of young adult literature, both speculative fiction and realism. I have also read several books, series or parts of series in the paranormal romance subgenre, which has become so alarmingly huge since Twilight was published ( Read more... ) -
Juniper (Cinnamon Jezebel Garden)
Our lives now seem to revolve around Juniper. We arrange our schedules so that we don't leave her alone for more than a few hours, and if that can't be done she gets taken places. She's been to work with Anna a few times, to errantmeme 's place, and last night to puppydogtail 's. She seems to take these changes in her stride, adaptable as only baby things are. If she ( Read more... ) -
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Diana Wynne Jones, who wrote some of the most clever, funny and charming children's books I've ever read, has died. Neil Gaiman blogs about it here. I didn't discover Diana Wynne Jones until I got sick during the HSC exams, and my eyes and head were so sore I couldn't read. My mum read me Witch Week - which has remained on of my favourites - and at ( Read more... ) -
Zombies vs Unicorns
If you follow the YA community you've probably heard this phrase before. The argument has divided both authors and readers of YA literature and sparked an anthology edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier. It now comes to Sydney with a debate at Kinokuniya on Thursday, 31st March.
Team Zombie - Scott Westerfield (Uglies, Leviathon, Peeps) and ( Read more... ) -
it's time to let go
On Wednesday the 3rd of November Jigzag play their last gig and album launch ever, at Notes, in Newtown.
As it's the only launch Jigzag are doing and there'll be a lot of people as sad and nostalgic as me, I think it might be wise to book. Let me know if you want in. :) -
happily ever after?
Several people requested a copy of last night’s group fairy tale, to which fifteen or so people must have contributed. I think the struggle by various factions to control the story was as epic as the story itself. Here it is, a masterpiece of modern prose, as magical as the Grimms’, and with as much pathos and tragedy as Hans Christian Anderson’s ( Read more... ) -
run, run, as fast as you can
Tonight I will dream about gingerbread men...