Bruce Whatley is an incredibly prolific Australian author and illustrator. His creations are most notable for their diversity both in tone and style. Tin Toys is now on My Book Corner’s recommended Christmas list for the second year running, and has been joined this year by his latest collaboration with Jackie French – Queen Victoria’s Christmas. Tell us about you in…
It is with much delight that My Book Corner welcomes Hazel Edwards. She is obviously well known for her children’s picture book classic, There’s A Hippopotamus On Our Roof Eating Cake. Can you believe it celebrated its 30th birthday in 2011?! Tell us about you in 25 words or less. ‘There’s a Hippopotamus on our…
My Book Corner is honoured and delighted and … ok very EXCITED, to have Jackie French visit our book corner. In January 2014 Jackie French took over from Boori Monty Pryor and Alison Lester, who set a great precedent as the Inaugural Laureates for Australia. With a career spanning 20 years and more than 140 books (including Diary…
Dub Leffler, from Quirindi in NSW, began his visual career as an animator and has worked as a muralist and art teacher. He has illustrated several children’s books and has collaborated with Colin Thompson, Shaun Ran and Banksy. Once there was a boy is the first book Dub has written and illustrated. Tell us about…
The Stars at Oktober Bend is an all encompassing novel from talented writer Glenda Millard. Millard’s absorbing narrative alternates between her two main characters, Alice and Manny. Alice is fifteen. A horrific attack left her with a brain injury, she finds solace in the words she can write, the words that she has difficulty saying…
A Virtual Cup of Tea with Tania McCartney, author and illustrator of Australia Illustrated. Tania McCartney has been writing picture book for many years, however this is the first book she has written AND illustrated. Intrigued by how this came about? Fancy a sneak peek at how a picture book comes together? Me too… Australia Illustrated…
Australia Illustrated is 96 glorious pages full of fabulous details and quirky snippets about life in Australia from Tania McCartney – ‘a small slice of the land I was born in, and the land that I love.’ … and the love for Australia beams out from every page. The opening pages celebrate Australia for being…
Creepy & Maud is a YA novel which is both awkward and intriguing. Looking for a YA novel which is quirky? Delve in … Creepy & Maud is both amusing and heartfelt, strange yet familiar and unlike anything I’ve ever read before … and yes, that most definitely is a good thing! Creepy and Maud…
Internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning author Margo Lanagan is here!! 11th – 17th November is National Short Story Week in the UK, giving My Book Corner the perfect opportunity to interview award winning short story aficionado Margo Lanagan. What a privilege! Margo is the author of five captivating short story collections. Black Juice, her second collection…
Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan is a hauntingly beautiful novel. Totally unique with a compelling storyline, it’s an absorbing piece of speculative fiction. Misskaella is the youngest in her family. Plagued by the belief that she is unfavourably different, ‘all the world seemed intent on pointing out what I lacked.’ Misskaella suffers a lonely childhood, in…
Too Flash is an engrossing chapter book for older readers. Penned by Melissa Lucashenko, an Australian writer of mixed European and Murri heritage she articulates the trials and tribulations of Zo, a fifteen year old who is forced to move across country when her career focused mum is relocated by her employer. Too Flash is a…
Combine the classic Wuthering Heights – full of lust, betrayal, longing and tragedy – with the talented mind of fantasy writer Alison Croggon, and what emerges is a rich and complex novel taking familiar themes to a whole new level. Black Spring is mesmerising. Hammel has been advised by his physician to ‘take a rest cure.’…
“There’s nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside. If I pick up the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.” One of the best opening lines It literally pulls you in to the folds of…
“Reading is partly the weight of the book in your hand, the feel of a page as you turn it. It is not an experience you can approximate.” When I start by telling you that Being Here begins with a teenage girl interviewing an elderly lady as part of school project – do not judge. A…
This stunning début novel from Australian author Emma Cameron is perfect for the YA audience. Cinnamon Rain didn’t take me long to read as I couldn’t put it down! Intriguing, heartfelt and eloquently written, I loved it. Beautifully told in verse which achieves the effect of minimalism, of making each line, each word, count. This sits so well…
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Ooh, this sounds fantastic!
Great review, thanks for posting the pictures. Really makes a difference with picture book reviews. Will order for the store…
I often hope to find interviews with Margaret Wild who fascinates me and whose work I adore. Thoroughly enjoyed this…