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Own Voices Books: The Little Refugee by Anh Do & Suzanne Do, Illustrated by Bruce Whatley
October 21, 2020 No Responses

Own Voices Books: The Little Refugee by Anh Do & Suzanne Do, Illustrated by Bruce Whatley

This post contains affiliate links. To celebrate Book Week in Australia, I am sharing a week’s worth of posts about #OwnVoices books, which is a concept coined in 2015 by Corrine Duyvis “to recommend kidlit about diverse characters written by...
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Own Voices Books: Wide Big World by Maxine Beneba Clarke and Isobel Knowles
October 20, 2020 No Responses

Own Voices Books: Wide Big World by Maxine Beneba Clarke and Isobel Knowles

This post contains affiliate links. This week, for Book Week, I am featuring posts on a few #OwnVoices books that we love. For more about Own Voices books and why I think they are important, see the intro to yesterday’s...
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Own Voices Books: El Deafo by Cece Bell
October 19, 2020 No Responses

Own Voices Books: El Deafo by Cece Bell

This post contains affiliate links. It is, at long last (2 months later than usual), CBCA Book Week again in Australia. I’m happy for any reason to celebrate books, and typically over here on the blog, I have asked fellow...
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RIBBIT RABBIT ROBOT Book Week Costumes by Victoria Mackinlay
October 17, 2020 No Responses

RIBBIT RABBIT ROBOT Book Week Costumes by Victoria Mackinlay

Here are three quick and easy Book Week Costume ideas for Ribbit Rabbit Robot.
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Picture Book Gifts for Australian Father’s Day
August 13, 2020 No Responses

Picture Book Gifts for Australian Father’s Day

Australian Father's Day falls in September. A picture book is the perfect gift.
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Book Review: Slow Down by Rachel Williams and Freya Hartas
July 29, 2020 No Responses

Book Review: Slow Down by Rachel Williams and Freya Hartas

Slow Down, a picture book by by Rachel Williams, illustrated by Freya Hartas, celebrates the beauty of stopping to take notice.
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Stay-at-Home Arts Activities & Classes for Kids by Australian Artists
April 9, 2020 No Responses

Stay-at-Home Arts Activities & Classes for Kids by Australian Artists

*This article may contain affiliate links. As we continue to stay at home during the Covid-19 crisis, most of us with children are, to some extent, turning to the arts to keep busy and happy. At the same time, the...
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The Music of Nature – A Scavenger Hunt
March 25, 2020 No Responses

The Music of Nature – A Scavenger Hunt

The arts and nature: I always think of them as cousins in terms of how fundamental they are to our souls. And then, sometimes, they are one in the same. Like some nature painting. Or, how nature makes its own...
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How to Support the Arts When the Arts Are Going Dark
March 15, 2020 No Responses

How to Support the Arts When the Arts Are Going Dark

We are all trying to figure out how COVID-19 is going to change our lives: Will schools be cancelled (if yours hasn’t, already)? Is working from home an option? How much of a pantry stash do we need? By now,...
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Listening Ears On!: A Review of Regurgitator’s Pogogo Show’s The Really, Really, Really, Really Boring Album
February 21, 2020 No Responses

Listening Ears On!: A Review of Regurgitator’s Pogogo Show’s The Really, Really, Really, Really Boring Album

If you were an Australian teenager in the 90’s, there’s a good chance that Regurgitator was the sound of your youth. Or, so I’m told. I was not an Australian teenager, and Regurgitator didn’t quite make it to my sphere;...
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