Monday, 28 May 2012

Diana Wynne Jones - by Patsy Jones

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Many years ago, when my daughter would have been nine or so, she came home from the Hobart Library with a copy of a book entitled Dogs...
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Monday, 7 May 2012

Give Them The Choice - Helping Your Child Become a Reader by Lyndon Riggall

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You probably can't get your child to read because you haven't given them access to books. It's a risky statement, I ...
Monday, 30 April 2012

The Reading Brain

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Remember the stillness and quiet at the end of a stirring piece of music? For a moment everyone is caught – absorbing the music, the ...
Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Um, so what exactly IS a "Mechanics Institute"? - by Maureen Mann

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I’m going to talk this week on a similar theme to Patsy’s blog last week: how different interests fit together. I am a committee member o...
Tuesday, 17 April 2012

The School That John Built - Patsy Jones

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I wonder how many readers of CBCA (Tasmanian Branch) Inc. are aware that John Marsden (Tomorrow, when the war began, etc.) started a sch...
Monday, 2 April 2012

The National Year of Reading - Penny Garnsworthy

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The National Year of Reading 2012 was launched in Canberra on 14 February and in an effort to turn Australia into a nation of readers it...
Monday, 26 March 2012

Review - The Fault In Our Stars, by John Green

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The Most Important Y.A. Novel of 2012: Lyndon on John Green's The Fault in Our Stars. A few weeks ago I received a package from A...
Saturday, 24 March 2012

Traditional Stories - by Nella Pickup

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Traition isn’t what it used to be. In our household, when we greet  a new baby, the gifts always includes a copy of Aesop’s Fables. My ...