Articles, Talks & Presentations
In First Opinions Second Reactions (the e-journal from Purdue University)
- International Children's Literature
- Writing Historical Fiction
- Escape into the Fiction of the "Other World": Australian Fantasy Literature
Articles that have been published in magazines and blogs
- A Vivid Christmas Memory (my blog - January 6th, 2010)
- On Christmas Readings (papertigers blog December 18th, 2009)
- Who Can I Tell? (WRITERS ON WRITING, in the UTS: Alumni Writersʹ Network E‐zine, January 2010)
- Secrets to Children's and Young Adult Publishing (Newswrite June 2009)
- History isn't dead. History LIVES! (Newswrite NSW writers centre)
- Making Book Trailers
- Holiday Time reading
- Dad's Can Read
- About Board Books
In Teachers Toolkit:
Book Lists produced as part of NLNW
- 2009 - Wonderful New Australian Kids' Books To Add To Your Library
- 2008 – New Aussie Kids Books
- 2007 – Great Aussie Reads
- 2006 – 55 Aussie picture Books for 0 to 5s
... and don't forget to check out the book blog newkidsbooksinoz.blogspot.com.
Especially for Parents
Other articles and presentations that I have prepared:
- PETA's Special Forever project
- My introduction for the subsequent publication - Living Landscapes
- "Choosing Great Books for 0-5s" presented at the 2005 National Literacy and Numeracy Week Read Aloud Summit
- A recent article appears in Paper Tigers
- View a page of information about me
- See information on a very magical event that happened in 2001. This was just the best day!
- The article Playing With Words appeared in the Australian School Libraries Association journal Access. It was written as a profile of me as part of National Literacy and Numeracy Week.
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