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I have just been absolutely blown away by Elizabeth Knox’s Dreamhunter. Set in a 1900-ish sort of world, the book is about young cousins Rose and Laura, who come from two very famous dreamhunting families. The dreamhunters are the few people who can enter The Place, where dreams can be caught and ‘performed’ to the [...]

Newsday article that asks if the release of HP6 will match the hype of last time…
If the publishers of author J.K. Rowling’s books have a challenge beyond how to spend the Harry Potter windfall, it is in trying to keep the series compelling for original readers who were 10 to 12 years old when Harry [...]

Happy 105th birthday to Antoine de Saint Exupery…

UK poet laureate Andrew Motion is “bitterly disappointed” that poetry and creative writing are largely absent in the secondary schools curriculum in England in contrast to the healthy state of poetry in primaries.
Read more at the Guardian, or click here to ask for more information about our Professional Development on working with teenagers on verse [...]

Centre for Youth Literature presents

Neil Gaiman
Monday July 18
6:30pm
Neil Gaiman is a rare writer, finding international success with work for adults, teenagers and children.
His dreamily macabre, darkly comic style has produced the bestselling Sandman, a 10-volume graphic novel series, Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett), Neverwhere (also a 6-part miniseries), Stardust and American Gods.
Neil has written [...]

Due to popular demand, we are extending our season of the Gregory Rogers Bookgig.
Book Week
at State Library of Victoria
For Years 3—8
The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard
by Gregory Rogers
Village Roadshow Theatrette
Wednesday 24 August
10.00am—11.30 & 1.00pm—2.30pm
AND
Thursday 25 August
10.30am—12.00 & 1.00pm—2.30pm
What is a Bookgig? One author, one book, one troupe of inspired actors. Add a roomful [...]

A key theme of The Curious Incident, he says, is the idea “that no human being is inherently inferior to any other. I felt it would have been hypocritical to meet with someone whose job involves being inherently superior to everyone else.”
Mark Haddon doesn’t want to meet the Queen. Read on at The Guardian.

Author Scott Westerfeld answers Eleven Questions from a Fan on his blog.

Centre for Youth Literature presents

Neil Gaiman
Monday July 18
6:30pm
Neil Gaiman is a rare writer, finding international success with work for adults, teenagers and children.
His dreamily macabre, darkly comic style has produced the bestselling Sandman, a 10-volume graphic novel series, Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett), Neverwhere (also a 6-part miniseries), Stardust and American Gods.
Neil has written [...]

“I am not a witch,” declares Cherie Blair at the official opening of the $10.2 million Roald Dahl Museum in Buckinghamshire, England.
Read about the museum launch, or make a virtual visit to the museum.