Animalia
I’ve mentioned my love of Graeme Base on my personal blog before – his intricate, mystery masterpiece The Eleventh Hour was a mainstay of my childhood, and brings back fond […]
Category Archives: Australian Author
Four Awesome Aussie picturebooks
I adore Mem Fox and Julie Vivas’s Possum Magic, and yet every time I put the book down I forget just how good it is. Because it can’t have been that […]
Diary of a Wombat
Have you ever seen a wombat? If you haven’t you’re in for a treat. Imagine a stuffed toy brought to life – well, make that sort of brought to life….they’re […]
Review: The Dark Days Club (Lady Helen #1) by Alison Goodman
Hardcover, 496 pages Expected publication: January 26th 2016 by Razorbill Source: Publisher Another man stepped out from the undergrowth. This time, Helen recognized the tall lean figure. He waited for […]
Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day Five: Rules of Summer
“Never break the rules. Especially if you don’t understand them.” – Shaun Tan, Rules of Summer Congratulations! You have made it to the fifth and final day of “Five […]
Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day Four: Tales from Outer Suburbia
“whenever we had followed his pointy hoof we’d always been surprised, relieved, and delighted at what we’d found. And every time we’d said exactly the same thing – ‘How did […]
Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day Three: The Arrival
Welcome! You have just arrived at day three of The Book Wars’ “Five Days with Shaun Tan.” These past two days we have looked at two picture books with characters […]
Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day Two: The Red Tree
“sometimes the day begins with nothing to look forward to” – Shaun Tan, The Red Tree This past semester I took a creative writing class for the first time since […]
Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day One: The Lost Thing
“So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you’d laugh yourself unconscious, others so […]
Mogget, Life and Love
I should probably preface the below by warning that this entire post requires a SPOILER ALERT. Quite a lot about the books is revealed below, and I doubt that certain […]
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