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	<link>http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/services/education/youthlit/readalert</link>
	<description>A Blog about youth literature</description>
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		<title>FAQs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most frequently asked questions recently goes something like this.
&#8220;What&#8217;s going on the Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas?&#8221;
Well, now you can find out by receiving regular email updates.
So now you know.
What is the CBWI, I hear you ask? Find out here.
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		<link>http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/services/education/youthlit/readalert/index.php/2009/11/05/faqs/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t cry for me, Anthony Horowitz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The truth is, Crocodile Tears, the latest Alex Rider novel, is out later this month. But you can win a copy now over at boys, blokes, books - where Tristan Bancks is in control.

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		<link>http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/services/education/youthlit/readalert/index.php/2009/11/05/dont-cry-for-me-anthony-horowitz/</link>
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		<title>Too late for Halloween</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Salem Brownstone is a deliciously moody graphic novel for teenagers and older. When Salem&#8217;s estranged father dies suddenly, his quiet life managing a laundromat is turned upside down and inside out. He pitched into a world of ghosts, wraiths and destructive spirits.

The purple cloth and spidery cover illustrations give you a taste of what is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/services/education/youthlit/readalert/index.php/2009/11/05/too-late-for-halloween/</link>
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		<title>Best books 2009, from Publishers Weekly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American trade journal Publishers Weekly have posted their best of 2009. Scroll down their list and see Shaun Tan&#8217;s Tales From Outer Suburbia taking its place in a list dominated, unsurprisingly, by North American writers.
The US cover looks like this.

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		<link>http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/services/education/youthlit/readalert/index.php/2009/11/05/best-books-2009-from-publishers-weekly/</link>
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		<title>Say hello to Mariko</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Mariko Tamaki, who has joined insideadog as the writer-in-residence.
Mariko is one half of the team that created Skim, currently on the Inky Award shortlist.

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		<link>http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/services/education/youthlit/readalert/index.php/2009/11/04/say-hello-to-mariko/</link>
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		<title>Bottersnikes and other lost things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Juliet O&#8217;Conor, manager of the State Library of Victoria&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Literature Collection, talks about her rather brilliant Bottersnikes and Gumbles, a history of Australian illustrated books for children. She is joined by Mem Fox on Deborah Cameron&#8217;s Sydney ABC morning program.
The broad themes and lush visual design makes Bottersnikes and Other Lost Things a rewarding, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/services/education/youthlit/readalert/index.php/2009/11/01/bottersnikes-and-other-lost-things/</link>
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		<title>Soonchild</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Kraken, the news group for fans of Russell Hoban, have let me know that that author of at least three classic books - The Mouse and His Child, Riddley Walker and the Frances books - has a young adult novel in the pipeline. Woot!
The book will be called Soonchild, which Hoban describes as having [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/services/education/youthlit/readalert/index.php/2009/10/30/soonchild/</link>
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		<title>Bring the funny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Teenagers from Morwell, Geelong and Ballarat joined suburbanites this week to explore the business of being funny. Thanks to all the teachers who make the effort to enrich your students&#8217; reading in this way. Around 600 teenagers shared Bring the Funny and met some outstanding authors.
David Metzenthen spoke about Jarvis 24, his latest novel, reminding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/services/education/youthlit/readalert/index.php/2009/10/30/bring-the-funny/</link>
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		<title>Creative Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reminder that for the next month we&#8217;re posting inspiration for the Inkys Creative Reading Prize over at YourSay.
The story so far&#8230;
Planning Notes
Plush Reads
Music
Twilight
And coming up next week we&#8217;ve got FOOD, video and mashups.

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		<link>http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/services/education/youthlit/readalert/index.php/2009/10/28/creative-reading/</link>
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		<title>WTWTA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, the hype for the movie of Where the Wild Things Are is beginning to lap at our ankles. We&#8217;ll try not to go overboard and keep it to the truly useful and interesting.
Clever boy Danny May from Film Victoria has posted a video of the locations used in the film. See it here.
There is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/services/education/youthlit/readalert/index.php/2009/10/22/wtwta/</link>
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