tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81843002971412330382024-03-19T18:21:01.818+08:00TALES I TELLBelkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-64234906921860424132010-10-29T05:30:00.047+08:002010-10-29T08:52:45.842+08:00BLOG TOUR (15) POND MAGICToday I have a Guest Blogger: Angela Sunde. This is a first for me! What it means is that I don't have to dream up appropriate questions or do any of the hard work. Angela is just going to do all that and all I have to do is paste what she says on this blog and sit back and enjoy!In case you don't already know, Angela is the author of Pond Magic - one of Penguin's Aussie Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-25240162629338266662010-10-19T05:30:00.280+08:002010-10-20T15:22:47.876+08:00BLOG TOUR (14) ROSIE BLACK CHRONICLESTHEROSIE
BLACK CHRONICLES: GENESIS by Lara MorganWalker Books Australia
October 2010
The Book Trailer
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Reflections on Rosie’s past and future
Preamble:
When I chose this topic ‘Reflections on Rosie’s past and future, Lara said: “An interesting topic you've put down. Just wondering when you say Rosie's past/future are you hoping for me to talk about the character herself or the Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-21197030942047248602010-10-02T05:30:00.165+08:002010-10-02T11:05:57.934+08:00SATURDAY FOCUS: REMARKABLE WOMEN(7) Pamela Ateka MuthioraSing Africa SingSelected poems
by Pamela Ateka Published 2004 by Community Focus Group,Nairobi, Kenya
In 2005 I coordinated an International Storytelling Festival in Perth Western Australia: Storytelling on the Edge. Before I knew it the programme had taken on a life of its own. Storytellers from all states/territories of Australia, as well as from Canada, England, Ireland, Israel, Kenya, New Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-42732591768238434552010-09-25T05:30:00.185+08:002010-09-25T05:30:00.719+08:00SATURDAY FOCUS: REMARKABLE WOMEN(6) Joice NanKivell LochOperation Pied PiperThe story of the rescue of 2,000 civilian refugees from Poland and 50 orphaned Jewish children
Joice Loch’s account of events of her incredible rescue of Polish refugees and orphaned Jewish children in A Fringe of Blue are greatly understated. In fact, she makes no specific mention of Operation Pied Piper at all. I am left to wonder whether she didn’t recognise the enormity Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-79396688113505538962010-09-18T05:30:00.135+08:002010-09-18T05:30:00.591+08:00SATURDAY FOCUS: REMARKABLE WOMEN (5) Joice Nankivell LochJoice NanKivell Loch 1887-1982
The birth of Joice Mary NanKivell in 1887 at the height of a north Queensland cyclone to a seventeen year old mother with only the help of a Kanaka housemaid, could be seen as a portend of things to come. Her father, George Nankivell, managed a sugar plantation. Government withdrawal of Kanaka labour 1890 and the Depression of that period began the family’s Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-1906927000783851462010-09-11T05:30:00.012+08:002010-09-11T05:30:00.881+08:00SATURDAY FOCUS: REMARKABLE WOMEN (4) The Research Process
Clare on Mount Saleve,
where Eglantyne … drafted her
pioneering statement of children's human rights …
Today I interview Clare Mulley, author of The Woman Who Saved the Children: a biography of Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children.
Welcome Clare! In the previous three weeks we've already uncovered a great deal about Eglantyne's journey. Today, I am particularly interested in Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-76699368152881599772010-09-04T05:00:00.077+08:002010-09-04T11:08:05.784+08:00SATURDAY FOCUS: REMARKABLE WOMEN (3) Book ReviewThe Woman Who Saved the Children: a biography of Eglantine Jebb, founder of Save the Children
by Clare Mulley
First published by Oneworld Publications, Oxford, England 2009.
Released in Australia as a Paperback in 2010
A slab of marble in St Georges Cemetery two miles south of the city of Geneva in full view of Mount Salève, and on the end of a sparsely populated row by a gravel path, Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-59520807510505629602010-08-28T05:00:00.014+08:002010-08-28T05:00:00.969+08:00SATURDAY FOCUS: REMARKABLE WOMEN (2) Clare Mulley introduces Eglantyne Jebb
Mabel Kaplan
Isn't serendipity wonderful?
...I visited my local library yesterday, and the first thing I noticed was the poster by the 'in' desk: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Child Friendly Language. I looked at the credits and found the poster to be a collaborative Childrens Week Project between the Community Development Office for Children and Youth, Meerilinga Young Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-91581721109526505352010-08-21T05:00:00.017+08:002010-08-21T10:14:28.086+08:00SATURDAY FOCUS: REMARKABLE WOMEN (1) Introduction
Mabel Kaplan
When Clare Mulley and I were introduced over cyberspace by Catriona Hoy recently, little did I realise how that the meeting would take me on a new kind of blog journey - a journey into the worlds of three remarkable women whose lives and accomplishments are relatively unknown. Yet each of these lives touch on children caught up in the horror of civil conflict and war, poverty and Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-69602346238193752312010-07-15T05:30:00.180+08:002010-07-15T11:18:13.952+08:00BLOG TOUR (13) Princess Clown Workshop Ideas
Princess Clown
written by Sheryl Gwyther
illustrated by Sian Naylor
Blake Education Pty Ltd Australia (2010)
Gigglers Blue Set 2
Princess Clown is a chapter book for 7-8 year olds. It's the story of Belle, a princess who wants more than anything to be a clown. But the trouble is, she's supposed to act like a real princess. When her mother, the queen, frowns at Belle for wearing a red nose, Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-70693456787330320332010-04-20T05:30:00.093+08:002010-04-20T05:30:00.851+08:00Reflections on PugglePuggle
By Catriona Hoy and Andrew PlantISBN 978 1 921504 01 3HB 32 pp RRP $24.95Working Title Press
Welcome Catriona! I am so delighted to be able invite into my cosy blog. I found Puggle such an enchanting story written with great sensitivity in a beautifully illustrated book Reading about him has led me on an exciting journey. Others on this blog tour have explored many Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-83749420035273946302010-04-09T21:42:00.003+08:002010-04-10T14:59:33.233+08:00ABOUT TOPPLING AND VERSE NOVELSWhile some may have been indulging themselves with a nice Saturday morning sleep-in on 27 February this year, or contemplating what other aspects of the WA Writers Festival to enjoy, I was savouring a windswept breakfast at the Matilda Bay Tearooms with members of SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators).
Among those present was Western Australian children’s author, Sally Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-84437119124003904122010-02-13T05:00:00.105+08:002010-02-13T05:00:02.477+08:00BLOG TOUR (10) There Was an Old SailorThere Was an Old SailorWritten by Claire SaxbyIllustrated by Cassandra AllenPublished by Walker Books Australia 2010
Today I am talking to Claire Saxby, author, about her newly released picture book, There Was an Old Sailor. Our discussion focuses on Rhyme, Rhythm and Reason.
. . . . . . . . . &Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-36360350023215158052009-12-24T17:52:00.000+08:002009-12-24T17:52:43.051+08:00LET'S CELEBRATE!Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-63358821262914394452009-12-13T05:30:00.005+08:002009-12-13T06:18:23.909+08:00BLOG TOUR (9) SNOWY'S CHRISTMASWhat's left to speak of Christmas?
Has it all been said before?
Parties, presents, surprises, greeting cards, celebrations, family, friends, having fun!
Snowy’s Christmas
Written by Sally Murphy
Illustrated by David Murphy
Published by Random House (October, 2009)
But what about Snowy?
He stares at his reflection in the still water of the billabong and, like the Ugly Duckling, Snowy knows he Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-60537579273501678992009-11-14T16:07:00.001+08:002009-11-14T17:08:00.416+08:00CABBAGES AND FINGS - with apologies to Lewis Carroll
I've been writing stories and poems for as long as I can remember. I have a four-drawer chest full of them, there are more stacked in the shelves of a wardrobe once intended to store skivvies, pullovers and underwear; my writing desk hasn’t seen the light of day in three years.
Along the way I’ve had a few nibbles from publishers and magazine editors (but somehow though several have Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-15927947151352137762009-10-05T16:42:00.001+08:002009-10-05T17:24:22.229+08:00BLOG TOUR (9) HAS BEGUN. SEE BELOW TO JOIN THE FUN!SNOWY'S CHRISTMAS
Snowy's Christmas
Written by Sally Murphy
Illustrated by David Murphy
Published by Random House (October, 2009)
Yes! Sally Murphy’s latest book, children’s picture book, ‘Snowy’s Christmas’ rolled into cyber space on Sunday at http://aussiechristmas.wordpress.com/
to introduce Snowy and friends.
Starting 4 October and each Sunday following until 13 December, 2009 they Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-26517298699378286432009-09-04T05:30:00.011+08:002009-09-04T10:15:18.514+08:00BLOG Tour(8) Alphabet Soup
The spring 2009 issue of Alphabet Soup marks the first birthday of this
Australian magazine for children aged 6 to 12 who love reading and creative writing. The magazine is published four times a year. A free sample of the magazine (issue 1) can be downloaded from the website (www.alphabetsoup.net.au).
Today, I am delighted to introduce you to the magazine’s editor, Rebecca Newman
...Good Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-22089097756372355402009-08-19T05:30:00.013+08:002009-08-19T13:02:43.278+08:00BLOG TOUR (7) SHEEP, GOAT AND THE CREAKING GATESheep, Goat and the Creaking GateWritten by Claire Saxby Illustrated by Judith RossellPublished by Windy Hollow Today I am talking with Claire Saxby about Picture Books and the role illustrations play. I’ve heard the role of the illustrator described in terms of creating a companion story inspired by the author’s text but reaching beyond what is actually written. Author and SCBWI President Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-88978872788255104202009-08-16T07:15:00.004+08:002009-08-18T03:44:56.794+08:00ABOUT PICTURE BOOKS AND BLOG TOURSPicture books are not just for children! They are one of my favourite kinds of books to browse and enjoy. Each time I come across a new picture book, I rediscover their joy - revisit concepts and topics approached in fresh and unexpected ways - reminding me of the song from Peter Pan: "I won't grow up . . . not me!"
I'd lilke to believe it's the job of children's writers to find the fairy dust Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-24592877639749087982009-08-05T05:30:00.013+08:002009-08-05T18:45:03.265+08:00BLOG TOUR (6) SAMURAI KIDS: MONKEY FISTSamurai Kids: Monkey Fistby Sandy FussellIllustrated by Rhian Nest JamesPublished by Walker Books AustraliaISBN: 9781921150913
Release date: 1 August 2009
Background:
Although Monkey Fist is a stand-alone story it is also Sandy Fussell's fourth book in the Series.
In Samurai Kids, Sensei Ki-Yaga, a Samurai Warrior from old Japan collects students that no other Samurai master is willingBelkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-31345788563586274602009-07-22T15:32:00.006+08:002009-08-05T12:43:39.148+08:00ADVANCE NOTICE. SAMURAI KIDS BLOG TOURWelcome friends all!
I’ll be chatting with Sandy Fussell about the background and setting of her new book Samurai Kids: Monkey Fist on Wednesday, 5 August as part of her blog tour to celebrate the release of Monkey Fist, the fourth in her Samurai Kids series. [You will find detail of the blog tour schedule at the end of this blog.]
Thinking it prudent to find out something of the ‘who’, ‘Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-45934576860214654112009-07-17T19:27:00.005+08:002009-07-17T19:56:15.400+08:00FINDING YOUR STORYTELLING VOICELet me begin with a brief explanation? While the focus of this article is on the art of oral storytelling it may well offer food for thought to writers as well. It is not based on the assumption that you’ve lost your voice and are in need of finding it via some miraculous cure (be it gargling with vegemite if you’re an Australian or eating more kiwi fruit if you’re a New Zealander!). Nor will it Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-54701595156241890312009-06-26T22:40:00.006+08:002009-06-27T00:56:39.409+08:00LETTERS TO LEONARDO-BLOG TOURLetters to Leonardo by Dee White published by Walkers Books AustraliaRelease date: 1 July, 2009 On his fifteenth birthday, Matt Hudson receives a card from his dead mother – she isn't dead!A powerful story told by Matt himself as he learns to deal with his mother's mental illness by writing letters to Leonardo da Vinci. ---------------------------------This morning, as promised, I have Dee White Belkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184300297141233038.post-80466827143654526112009-06-22T11:51:00.001+08:002009-06-22T11:51:04.580+08:00Storyteller.net: Storytelling, Storytellers, Stories, Story, Storytelling Techniques, Hear a Story, Read Stories, Audio Stories, Find Tellers, How to Tell A Story - Articles About StorytellingStoryteller.net: Storytelling, Storytellers, Stories, Story, Storytelling Techniques, Hear a Story, Read Stories, Audio Stories, Find Tellers, How to Tell A Story - Articles About StorytellingShared via AddThisBelkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11070284691578785883noreply@blogger.com1