CBCA Tasmania blog

With both adult children, a partner, and a toddler coming home for holidays, we can no longer rely on dumping books, computers, scanner, p...

I recently completed the UTas reading groups survey which made me think about what it was, other than the book itself, that created that ...

‘The day was so clear that she could see for miles.  There was pack ice everywhere, huge flat slabs of it that the Oyster swe...

I cheered the day my son failed his Air Force medical.  So what if his engineering degree would have been fee-free? He would have bee...

It takes a whole heap of self-esteem to be a really effective villain. In the 1970s, a dreadful myth was perpetrated by the likes o...

Browsing Italian bookshops for children’s books and, in particular, a book for my 13 month old grandson, was a huge disappointment.  ...

Having read Penny’s August blog about, among other titles,  Vinnie’s war by David McRobbie (published 2011), I was inspired to read it mys...

I have long held the opinion that e-books are here to stay. There is plenty of time still for wistful sighing over the smell of the printed...