Love the committee meetings where we select great books for disadvantaged and indigenous kids across Western Sydney, the Outback Northern Territory.
Andrew Berhut MD of Scholastic singing Hokey Pokey in tune with a new title was hilarious. Hokey Pokey is on the list of books that children can chose for their very own. Andrew really supports his books!
Gillian Maugle represents school librarians on the committee and is fabulous.
As a Role Model I’ll be presenting at the Assembly for Books in Homes, to Curran Public School Macquarie Fields in Western Sydney on 18th June – looking forward to it.
SCBWI – Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators Australia east and New Zealand is proud to support Book in Homes.
www.booksinhomesaustralia.com.au
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Innovative, extraordinary, fabulous, exciting – what am I talking about?
READING, READING, READING!!!!!!
The National Year of Reading 2012 has taken author ambassadors all over this beautiful country
- from the outback to the capital cities.
It has brought my much loved writing organisations together as they celebrate the power of reading to open the way to personal fulfillment, community, literacy and fun and love.
Partners include:-
SCBWI – www.scbwi.org
Room to Read – www.roomtoread.org
Monkey Baa Theatre – www.monkeybaa.com.au
Books in Homes – www.biha.org
and more
As one of the ambassadors, I have had the privilege of
-speaking to 1000s of kids, teachers, librarians, parents, grandparents
- bringing the message of NO to School bullying through ‘I Am Jack’ from the ocean to the desert
- sharing my refugee background through the joy of finding home in ‘Ships in the Field’
Having so many adventures and I’m going to shed a tear on 12th November when I go to Canberra to farewell this extrordinary year of reading.
THANKYOU to the wonderful librarians of Australia for a remarkable year.
ww.love2read.org
Books in Homes brought these fantastic kids from Outback Wilcannia to Sydney.
The kids had never seen the sea. Love this curious question:-
‘Who put all the salt in the water?’
As one of the author role models for Books in Homes, I get the fun of handing out books at the schools. The kids love them. Publishers Scholastic support Books in Homes and the kids select from the best books.
As a selection committee member representative together with representatives from indigenous, Catholic, State schools, Children’s Book Council, Scholastic Publishers we have a great time choosing books for the list. Some of the gems that kids can choose are:-
Nick Bland’s ‘The Very Hungry Bear’
Sally Morgan’s ‘The Last Dance’
Jackie French’s ‘Elephant Alert’
Great authors; great illustrators; great books; for great kids.
Check out – www.booksinhomesaustralia.com.au
Partner of the National Year of Reading www.love2read.org
Greg Riley, the psychic who won THE ONE and who always stays at The Hughenden was on a mission to discover The Hughenden stories.
He found Dr Harrison Quaife who brought the first x-ray to the colony and was a founding father of the British Medical Association and Astronomical Association in Australia.
The Morning Show on Channel 7 was filming Greg and the Australian Paranormal Phenomenon Investigator team as they investigated.
Fred (as the cheeky media personality Todd McKenny called him – Todd’s always a joker) – was much loved, like his father Barzillai Quaife – Australia’s first philosopher.
Fred and Barzillai both lived on Queen Street Woollahra in Sydney and influenced what Australia would become.
Barzillai Quaife wrote:-
‘Men may be foreigners but they are
men. They may be uncivilised but they
are yet men. They may be savages
but they still are men. One nation may
not oppress another. The natural rights
of man are universally the same ….” Barzillai Quaife 1872
Check out Channel 7 youtube to see it live:- http://yhoo.it/IUpZT7
The Hughenden supports Room to Read www.roomtoread.org; Books in Homes Australia www.biha.org; Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators SCBWI,The national Year of Reading 2012
Libraries, libraries, libraries – you’ve got to LOVE them.
They’re spreading the reading message and as an ambassador for The National Year of Reading, I’m speaking at writers’ festivals, book launches, libraries, schools, bookshops.
Is it fantastic? YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Here’s a snapshot of my May tours for The National Year of Reading - www.love2read.org
4-6th May ~ Keynote at the Gloucester Writers festival – www.gloucesterwritersfestival.com
6th May – Launch at Gloucester Festival of ‘Alien Shores’ an anthology of refugees narratives that reach into struggles, humour, life of finding home with authors including speaking Sharon Rundle and Andrew Kwong. I’ll be speaking about my story.
17th -18th May -Coff’s Harbour region speaking at schools and the Catholic Diocese of Lismore in Northern NSW Teacher-Librarian Conference
20th May – Melbourne for the launch of Alien Shores by the Human Rights QC Julian Burnside with authors, Arnold Zable, Sharon Rundle, Professor Meenakshi Bharat, Susanne Gervay at 6 p.m. Readings Bookstore Carlton. http://www.readings.com.au/review/alien-shores-by-sharon-rundle-meenakshi-bharat-eds
22nd May – Launching Alien Shores in Sydney at The Hughenden Hotel with authors Linda Jailin, Sophie Masson, Sharon Rundle, Rosie Scott with the Consul General of India www.thehughenden.com.au
23rd May- Randwick Library in Sydney for Simultaneous Reading Time where ambassadors will read to parents and littlies across Australia – can’t wait, it’s going to be gorgeous! http://www.alia.org.au/nss/
24-May – Taree Library speaking about ‘Always Jack’ for the Biggest Morning Tea in support of the Cancer Council at Taree Library brought up by the Australian Library and Information Association
25th May -Halliday’s Point Library on North Coast NSW
28th May – speaking at 10 am in Warringah Library in Sydney’s Northern Beaches about my first picture book ‘Ships in the Field’.
29th May – Teacher Librarian Conference at Maroubra Junction Public School Sydney
That’s my MAY spreading the National Year of Reading Celebration of Books!
Love you to come along and chat to me, or log onto the www.lovetoread.org website and joi
Thrilled that Books in Homes has partnered with The National Year of Reading
As an Ambassador for the National Year of Reading and as a role model for Books in Homes, I love going out, giving young people beautiful books, addressing assemblies and celebrating reading.
Find out more about Books in Homes – they take great books to kids in indigenous communities and disadvantaged schools.
Love it and the kids and and communities love it too.
It’s hands across our nation.
Read and discover the world and be all you can be.
http://www.booksinhomesaustralia.com.au
