Montessori is one of those beautiful philosophies that centre on the child.
Morris Gleitzman. Oliver Phommavanh, Aleesah Darlison and many more.
Ist May – I’ll be there Thursday sharing all my books from Gracie and Josh (Ford St) to my I AM JACK series to young adult books – Butterflies and That’s Why i Wrote This Song.
Friday the fabulous Tim McGarry and I will be in conversation about the theatrical adaptation of I AM JACK which will be performed for BOOK WEEK – 18-22nd August at Darling Quarter Theatre:-
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The kids and teachers and parents are beautiful in a rustic style school in Sydney’s South.
The Children’s Bookshop Beecroft is the bookseller.
Come along: Montessori Literature Festival Bookings – email: Deborah Browne Festival Director at – [email protected]
ph: 9526 3000
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Great SCBWI night at the Hughenden in Sydney with:-
Linsay Knight entertaining SCBWI with her stories of becoming an independent publisher Pitt Street Poetry
- publishing what you want from kids’ books to the best of poetry to non fiction
- it’s about the love of it
The joy of :-
Deborah Abela – the ARA for SCBWI (NSW and ACT) – talented multi award winning author
Sarah Davis – Illustrator Coordinator SCBWI – talented multi award winning illustrator
Sharing brilliant books and news including:-
Felicity Pullman’s new historical novel published by HarperCollins ‘A Ring Through Time’
Nathan Luff’s ‘Bad Manners’ published Walker Books
Aleesah Darlinson and Jill Carter-Hansen (illustrator) Bearly There published by Windy Hollow
…. and so many more authors and illustrators with news.
Good food, good company, great speakers and networking.
The CBCA dropped in with a special hello to librarian Mike Botham and the girls from Sydney High School who love writing.
Next event is on Monday 17th June with guest speaker Margaret Hamilton one of Australia’s leading authorities on picture books, children’s books as well as adult books. If you visit the Blue Mountains drop into Pinerolo the children’s illustrators and writers cottage.
Talented Serena Geddes dropped into The Hughenden for a cup of tea. She also gave a delightful illustration of Aleesah Darlison and her ‘Totally Twins’ series published by new Frontier – to be hung in the Exhibition in the Reading Room of The Hughenden.
Totally Twins is a humorous series about identical twins, Persephone (she’s the sensible one) and Portia (she’s the messy one) Pinchgut.
