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The inaugural Scribblers Festival held earlier this month in Claremont closed to rapturous applause from authors, publishers and attendees alike. From junior podcasters to illustration workshops, laureate gatherings and debates on the importance of school libraries, the 2018 Scribblers Festival had something for all lovers of children’s literature.
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Dianne Wolfer will launch her third book in the Light series, In the Lamplight, at Carlyles Function Centre in the National Anzac Centre precinct in Albany at 5.30 pm Monday 9 April.
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Riddle Gully Secrets by Jen Banyard is in the running for a West Australian Young Readers' Book Award. Banyard said this was the second time the Riddle Gully series had been honoured, with Mystery at Riddle Gully making the shortlist in 2016.
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Fremantle Press is pleased to announce the publication of three new editions of A Fortunate Life by A.B. Facey. First published by Fremantle Press (formerly Fremantle Arts Centre Press) in 1981, A Fortunate Life was licensed to Penguin in the same year.
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Sister Heart by Sally Morgan has been shortlisted for a 2018 Adelaide Festival Award for Literature in the children’s category.
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‘You can change anything at all. It is foolish to think there is no light on the horizon.’ Drawn Onward by Meg McKinlay and Andrew Frazer uses a combination of language and typography to demonstrate how to move thoughts from the negative to the positive.
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Behind every successful creator is a first story, a first line, a first drawing. James Foley’s passion for art started young, with a step-by-step drawing of Bart Simpson and some ‘public murals’ on and underneath the tables of his childhood home. These days, James writes and illustrates for a living, and regularly presents to schoolkids and encourages them to get stuck into their art. This month James took a few moments to share his top tips for getting into (and staying into) cartooning.
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Have you ever wanted to enlarge something to enormous proportions? Now you can* with the latest teaching activity for James Foley’s Dungzilla!
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Norman Jorgensen's The Smuggler's Curse has won the 2017 West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA).
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The Bunbury-based creator of Six Two Three Zero, Andrew Frazer, is about to release his first book. Drawn Onward, a picture book co-created with award-winning author Meg McKinlay, will be launched with an afternoon tea at Collins Booksellers Bunbury on Saturday 7 October. Both author and illustrator will be on hand to introduce the book.
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