Seven Little Australians house protected

Ethel Turner's childhood home in Killara will be placed on the NSW Heritage Register. Read the Daily Telegraph report.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20479717-5001028,00.html

Kylie Minogue Launches First Children's Book ...

is a headline on All Headline News.com. It reports the hype surrounding th launch of Kylie's new picture book. I must have missed the hype as I didn't hear about the launch. See http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004954397 for the story

Inside the real Lian Hearn

A Times UK article at: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-2358181,00.html

Librivox

http://www.librivox.org/ This site provides free audiobooks from the public domain. LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the internet.

INTUTE

http://www.intute.ac.uk/

Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best
Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of
UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the
websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the
resources.

New Survey on ALIA pages

Go to http://alia.org.au/employment/workforce/ to complete a survey on the Library and Information Sector Workforce led by Gillian Hallam. It will take up to 30 minutes to complete, but it will provide worthwhile information for the profession.

Vogel Award

Nominees for this year's "The Australian"/Vogel Literary Award have been announced. The shortlisted titles are:

Jeremy Aitken The Bike
Belinda Castles The River Baptists
Jarad Henry Spider Web
Matthew Schreuder Muscle
Anna Westbrook Hey Sugar

Chris Riddell and Paul Stewart

We were lucky enough to have this visiting English author/illustrator duo, creators of The Edge Chronicles, visit our school last week to address the students. The students were mesmerised by the visitors who spoke of the process they go through to produce their works and then answered questions from the students. While Paul spoke Chris made a sketch of one of his characters.

AIS Integrators' Conference

I am presently in a blogging session at Wenona with Martin Pluss from Tara Anglican School so I am demonstrating my practical skills by posting. At the conference there has been a range of presentations of interest to those responsible for ICT in schools.

Conference highlights have included the presentations from Netalert and the Quia presentaton. Jim Mullaney's keynote on looking at the impact of Web 2.0 technologies and how they might be used for learning.

Booktrust Teenage Prize

Find the shortlisted books for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2006 at
http://www.bookheads.org.uk/06/prize/index.php4

From information overload to collective intelligence: Social bookmarking, tagging and folksonomy

This article from The Public Relations Society of America explaians the concepts of Social Bookmarking, Tagging and Folksonomies.

Nick Earls....

.... has been in the headlines lately since the premiere in Brisbane of the movie 48 Shades of Brown based on his book of the same name.

Brisbane takes lead role SMH Article

Colin Thiele

Australian author, Colin Thiele, died yesterday aged 85.

Links to News reports:
Acclaimed Storm Boy author Colin Thiele dies
Storm Boy's creator dies, aged 85
Storm Boy author dies at 85
Australian author Colin Thiele dies
Storm Boy' author Thiele dies
A reflection on Colin Thiele and his impact

Other Thiele Information
Colin Thiele - Biography
Colin Thiele Papers at the National Library
Colin Thiele's Eudunda Page
Penguin Author Profile
Adelaide City Council - Colin Thiele
Teller of tales that teach

Postscript 8 September 2006
Children's author Colin Thiele farewelled

New Blog Link

I have added an additional blog to the links from this site. Real Reading from Linda Weeks. Although the audience appears to be the community at her school the site hosts reviews of books for secondary students and information about authors and writing.

A niftly little tool

I just came across Visited Countries a small project demonstrating the power of manipulating the palette of a gif image on the fly. One can quickly create a map that identifies the countries one has visited. Here's my map for the with countries I have visited marked in red..



create your own visited countries map
or vertaling Duits Nederlands

Getting ready for Book Week!

Just found a familiar face all dressed up and ready for Book Week at St. Paul's Grammar School in New South Wales
http://www.stpauls.nsw.edu.au/newsArticle.php?artId=86

Trusting in daydreams

Melbourne Age article on "The New Policeman" author, Kate Thompson
http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/trusting-in-daydreams/2006/08/10/1154803022768.html

Enid Blyton - a daughter's view

Yorkshire Post interview with Gillian Baverstock, daughter of the prolific children' author.
http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=105&ArticleID=1634078

Tales from the Slush Pile...

is an original comic strip that follows the trials and tribulations of a children's book writer. The full archive is available online at:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6289885.html

National Treasures from Australia’s Great Libraries ...

is at the State Library of New South Wales until 22 October 2006. Deatils of visits to other states are at:
http://nationaltreasures.nla.gov.au/index/Treasures/about#tourdetails

Visiting Melbourne??

Take time out to visit the Maurice Sendak Exhibition at the Jewish Museum. Further details at : http://www.jewishmuseum.com.au/exhibitions/exhibitions_frameset.htm

Hooked on classics

Guardian interview with Australian author/illustrator Robert Ingpen
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/childrenandteens/story/0,,1845164,00.html

Magic Pencil

Children's Book Illustration Today http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/magicpencil/home.html
hosted by The British Library was a display of more than 300 paintings and drawings for children by Britain’s ‘starriest’ illustrators held in 2002-3. Highlights from the exhibition are available online.

Book Now - Children's Book Week 2006 ...

has been and gone. I was impressed by the decisions made by the judging panel this year. I particularly liked the Picture Book of the Year " The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley By Colin Thompson, illustrated by Amy Lissiat

I've had a rest and a holiday....

....from my blog but I have kept reading and collecting links of interest. I will start adding links over the next few days.