This one’s a romp! It starts from a dog’s eye view of the bustle of a New Delhi railway station then pans out to reveal a colourful cast of characters (human and animal), a fast-paced plot, and a tragi-comic take on the city and the Indian nation. It’s so filmic, so Bollywood and so much
Coral Vass works to get the words just right. And that’s whether she’s writing about the Australian dubbed by many as ‘the greatest batsman who ever lived and the greatest cricketer of the 20th century’ or about two birds fighting over a perch. Her most recent books for children, Meet … Don Bradman and Two
Here’s my project. I read a poem a day, imbibe its rhythms and use this as an inspiration for my own writing. Because it’s 2016, I’ll choose 16 quotes from 16 of these poems to feature on A Bigger Brighter World so you’ll get to enjoy a taste of them too. I may not manage
Author and teacher Pauline Deeves’ book for 8- to 12-year-olds, Midnight Burial, won the 2015 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards (children’s fiction category). She explains here why books aren’t broccoli, how her upcoming book about WW I is told through the eyes of a young girl on the home front, and how musk sticks kick-started
Canberra-based author Irma Gold is the new ambassador for the ACT Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge—and she’s passionate about finding ways to get kids hooked on books. Her compassion for the baby elephants that are put to work in the tourist industry in Thailand informed her upcoming book for children, Seree’s Story, that will be published
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