Book Week

It’s the 30th August and Book Week Month is almost over. This time it spills in to September with five days in sunny Ipswich next week for the Story Arts Festival.     But the long days of travel (including one 15 hour day) and the early morning starts (4.45 am more than once) are…

Last Wednesday I attended my ninth Illawarra South Coast Children’s Book Council Literary Lunch. I’ve only ever missed one. This is one of my most favourite events on my kidlit calendar. Eighteen tables of keen primary school kids and their librarians. My table this year was a group of energetic, enthusiastic and very hungry kids from Mount…

It really ought to be called Book Week Month. According to my diary, Book Week extends halfway into September. It’s a good thing it’s a lot of fun. This was a special beginning to Book Week because it was also a Story Crowd festival with uber-talented Jules Faber and tween-scene-queen Belinda Murrell. My biggest fail…