A Strong Belief in Wicker

Wondrous Words Wednesday is a fabulous weekly meme hosted by  Bermuda Onion , where we share new (to us) words that we’ve encou...

This time last week I was in Adelaide soaking up the atmosphere at the Children's Book Council of Australia 2012 Conference . It was gra...

Wondrous Words Wednesday is a fabulous weekly meme hosted by  Bermuda Onion , where we share new (to us) words that we’ve en...

A few months ago I hadn't heard of this book, or the author, Dutch writer Guus Kuijer. Then he won the Astrid Lindgren Award . Natu...

I came across this book a few months ago. It was a finalist for the 2011 Cybils awards, for whom my lovely friend Deb Nance at Readerbu...

I was very privileged to attend the Children's Book Council of Australia 2012 Conference in Adelaide this week. It was such an amazi...

A few months ago I won the monthly subscribers prize from Good Reading Magazine . Naturally I was thrilled. I'd been subscribing si...