By API User
Media release 2 January 2025 Book in some holiday reading time to avoid the ‘summer slide’ There’s nothing better than relaxing with a good book over summer, but for young children it can also be a sneaky way of maintaining the literacy gains they made at school over the past 12 months. … Continued
By API User
Award-winning Australian author John Marsden, best known for his multimillion-selling Tomorrow series, has died aged 74. Dr Penni Russon, Senior Lecturer, Literary Studies, Faculty of Arts Contact: +61 423 873 770 or penni.russon@monash.edu Comments attributable to Dr Russon: “It was the Tomorrow series that hooked me: afternoons spent as a 20-something in the Northcote library, reading compulsively. As … Continued
By API User
Australian cartoonist, poet and writer Michael Leunig has died aged 79. His death was announced on social media: “The pen has run dry, its ink no longer flowing – yet Mr Curly and his ducks will remain etched in our hearts, cherished and eternal.” Dr Ali Alizadeh, Senior Lecturer, Literary Studies, Faculty of Arts Contact: … Continued
By API User
The Moon Story is a stunningly illustrated book, written in Kriol and English by Marshia Cook, with some illustrations by Marshia’s son Tamua Nuggett. Published by The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF), The Moon Story was produced in a workshop in Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia with ILF Lifetime Ambassador Alison Lester, children’s author Jane Godwin and … Continued
By API User
Children have the right to great stories The children’s Laureate Ursula Dubosarsky and Susanne Gervay OAM advocate that children have the right to great stories especially in this world of crisis. To lose yourself in a story is to find yourself in the grip of an irresistible power. A power that provokes thought, unlocks language … Continued
By API User
MEDIA RELEASE: INTERVIEWS AVAILABLE This December, ABR asks thirty-seven of its contributors to nominate their favourite books of 2024. ABR’s Book of the Year feature is always popular and always gets people talking. Which Russian novel does James Ley describe as ‘hands down the wildest release of the year’? Which author makes ‘managerialism the stuff of high comedy’, according … Continued
By API User
Hardie Grant Books is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Australian professional golfer and commentator Ian Baker-Finch’s authorised biography, To Hell and Back. Hardie Grant Books acquired world print, ebook and audiobook rights and will publish in June 2025. Ian Baker-Finch is known and admired across the golfing world, and his is a powerful story … Continued
By API User
Move over Messi, Ronaldo, Bellingham, Salah, Haaland, and Mbappé! They may be the names young football fans may immediately picture when thinking of the game’s biggest stars, but Australia has an equally compelling football story ready to be discovered. The Goals That Changed Australia—Stories from the biggest stage on earth, written by sports journalist David … Continued
By API User
Big Trouble with Angry Chairs, the first book in Lachlann Carter’s delightfully spooky and funny Big Trouble series, is here to stir up some mischief. Published by Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing and illustrated by million-copy bestselling artist Douglas Holgate (Last Kids on Earth), the series combines the eerie humour of Goosebumps with the surreal twists … Continued
By API User
On 22 October, talented 18-year-old student Mia Speed returned to her former Lincoln Gardens Primary School in Port Lincoln, South Australia to launch her first children’s book written in her Wirangu language. Inspired by her nieces and nephews who wanted to learn more about their language and culture, the book was created when she was … Continued
