For teachers and librarians looking for books to address the sustainability theme in the National Curriculum, The Smallest Carbon Footprint is a collection of stories that certainly fits the bill! A prince wants to marry the girl with the smallest carbon footprint in the land, and he has her diamond slipper to ensure he finds […]
Just in, a terrific review of Bringing Down the Wall, sent in by Barbara Braxton… Once, Joshua was very close to his grandfather but since his grandmother got really sick and died, he hasn’t seen him because his mother will not let him. Joshua suspects it has something to do with his grandfather’s new wife, […]
No Matter Who We’re With Robert Vescio Cheri Scholten IP Kidz, 2013 Hbk, RRP $A 26.00 Ebk RRP $8.00 9781922120212 This is a sensitive story about two children who are dealing with an issue that so many of our students do – their parents are separated and they spend time living at both houses. Even […]
MakeItHappen has posted My Planets Reunion Memoir as an idea that might get a micro grant to enable me to present it at an international conference in Banff, Canada next May. Please connect to the page and “like” the idea to give it the best chance of being funded (costs you nothing): http://makeithappen.schusterman.org/idea/738 MakeItHappen is the […]
This is for Anne Morgan, on Bruny Island, who asked to see my poem about leeches, which appeared in The Cave After Saltwater Tide, p. 97 (Penguin, 1994). Happy to oblige, Anne! Snakes and Leeches she’s an islander she teases leeches cuddles tiger snakes at low tide or when she’s between men i’m not […]
This week we feature the latest reviews of our titles I Love You Book by Libby Hathorn and Heath McKenzie and Sawdust by Deborah Kay with Barry Levy. I Love You Book is a charming picture book about the reasons why children (and adults!) love reading stories in books. It was inspired by a play […]
The American Authors Guild seems intent on throwing good money after bad by pursuing Google for publishing excerpts from digitised books and then making them available on Google Books. In the latest court decision in the ongoing battle, a US court has ruled that Google Books is operating within the constraints of “fair use” in […]
Our last ever issue of IP eNews is now online, so please check it out if you haven’t already: IP eNews 60 We’ve enjoyed the 15 years that eNews has been online and were pleased that the National Library has been archiving it as ‘a significant cultural feature’ almost from the start. The newsletter evolved […]
From 2014, we’ll post items here that hopefully will interest you about IP, Australia’s most innovative independent publisher. Our blog will replace IP eNews, which we wound up after its 60th issue, 15 years after it went to air. eNews was a quarterly and had an engaging mix of news, interviews, how-tos and editorials. But […]
