CBCA Tasmania blog

On Friday, the bookshop held the launch of Poppy Gee’s Bay of Fires (Headline).   In her comments in the back of the novel and also ...

For some time, I’ve been thinking about making non-fiction the topic for one of my blogs, but when it came to checking on what to write abo...

Storylines for children’s play I work a lot with early childhood educators and they often express concern about young children’s preo...

“I want to buy a book for my teenage niece” she said.  “No vampires or fantasy or anything upsetting.  Do you think Poor Man’s Orange wou...

Ask a bunch of teenage students who Julius Caesar was and they will answer “Who is she?” You need not blame the inadequacy of the history c...

 Having recently been in Brisbane and had the opportunity to visit the exhibition ‘Portrait of Spain : Masterpieces from the Prado’, ...

With 2013 well and truly underway, it was time to put into practice one of my new year’s resolutions – reading more YA books. And as sere...

I have spent some time over the past few days, knowing that my turn to write the blog was fast approaching, mentally reviewing my year’...