CBCA Tasmania blog

If you were lucky enough to get to the Festival of Golden Words, you would know it was a wonderful weekend of inspirational and intellec...

Whether we like it or not young children love toilet humour.   A book that mentions or includes illustrations of underwear, nakedness,...

From Tehani Wessely I sometimes feel as if I’m living multiple lives, as I have many roles to play. I’m a mum, a teacher librarian, a...

I recently purchased a new bookcase for my study and now , finally , I can fit in all the large picture books I have held in storage fo...

I had just finished reading Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites, when my attention was drawn to Late Line 19/02/2014 .   Burial rites is set in Ic...

Alexander must have moved into our house.   We’ve had several Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Days lately.   When relaying the l...

For some years it has been possible for people to climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge and experience part of what the Sydney population ...

Each week a thoughtful CBCA member, usually a committee member or author, writes a blog.   Topics range from reviews of books and favour...