I Wanna Be Found – Tory Gervay...

 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw0JRQVht3E Tory’s brother just put some photo clips together for Tory’s song so it could go on youtube.  He’s a cool brother. Hope you love this video clip. Photos were taken by a young photographer Rick Munitz.       Tory loves her music and shoes Tory performing with Not Perfect the...

SWINE FLU into BIRD – Books are Go...

Bird Flu meets Swine Flu – Peeper and Green Bird in hospital at St Vincent’s Sydney. Visiting with  – I AM JACK to the rescue.    Peeper in...

Hope Card from France to the Oz children...

Jeanne des Sainte Marie illustrates for Oz kids I had the pleasure of meeting the wonderful ilustrator Jeanne de Sainte Marie at the Bologna Book Fair and at the SCBWI Conference there where I spoke. Jeanne’s illustrations are exquisite. Her Hope Card illustration invites children and adults into Emily Dickernson’s poem where  ‘Hope is the thing with feathers.’ You have the gift of life …..  live it for you and the ones you remember  from Michaela Reuss-Oates.   Helping  Others  Peacefully Everywhere from Angela Schellenberg With...

Storytellers at The Hughenden...

‘You cannot love good, if you cannot fight good,’ says Ken Benn New Zealand storyteller and YA author as he dons on the parish robes and the Irish accent and makes the audience laugh. Ken Benn New Zealand storyteller and author the ARCH BISHOP performance poet and storyteller The Arch Bishop was hilarious as he related Banjo Patterson’s ‘The Man From Snowy River’ in multiple voices and personnas Other story tellers were Mary French Mary French storyteller from Canberra from Canberra, Annie Eyres and Beryl Ayres - all fantastic. Australian...

MAL PEET & M T ANDERSON at the CBCA ...

British Carnegie Medal winner of young adult literature Mal Peet and USA Michael L Printz winner of young adult literature M T Anderson were funny, warm, engaging as they spoke to the Children’s Book Council dinner at The Hughenden Boutique Hotel. Carnegie Medal Award winner Mal Peet Michael Printz Prize winner M T Anderson Authors Kate Forsyth, Wendy Blaxland, Sue Whiting, Maureen Johnson, Sandy Fussell, Margaret Roc, Lindy Batchelor, Jan Latta and others as well as John Cohen Editor of Reading Time , Judith Ridge youth literature office for Western Sydney and many...

Minnesota SCWBI Hope Card to the Kids ...

Hope Card from Minnesota USA ‘… to let you know we care’ Gayle Jackson-Huset ‘This little card from Minnosta offers a message of hope’ Linda Deml-Drahota ‘.. never give up your dreams’ Sandra McLeod Humphrey Illustrated with love and hope by children’s illustrator Sharon Wagner and designer by Sandra Mielke With thanks to Christine Henderson Regional Advisor SCBWI Minnesota for coordinating the children’s authors and illustrators from...

NSW Premier's Literary Award 2009...

Susanne Gervay and Glenda Millard Nette Hilton, Ursula Dubosarsky, Tohby Riddle Donna Rawlins, Simon French, Michael Stephen King Pat Rutter, Susanne Gervay & Richard Harland - it's funny I love the NSW Art Gallery.  It’s such a beautiful venue for this great celebration of Australian literature.  So many of my friends received short listings and awards from Ursula Dubosarsky, Tohby Riddle, Nette Hilton, Stephen Michael King and  many more who were there partying and celebrating  – writers, illustrators, authors, Arts community and our heroes...

Inaugural patrons, authors MORRIS GLEITZ...

Susanne getting ready for launch What a special day with the extraordinary MonkeyBaa Theatre. The talent of the creative directors of MonkeyBaa  Tim McGarry, Eva di Cesare and Sandie Eldridge and the talents of the Australian theatre community took my breath away at the Premiere of Thursday’s Child at the Seymour Theatre Sydney. Morris Glietzman, Jackie French and I accepted with pleasure the role of Patrons of MonkeyBaa Theatre on 15th May at the premiere. The theatre was packed, the energy high and everyone seemed to be there from actors, Australia Council,...

The HOPE CARD from SCBWI Washington Stat...

  Western Washington State USA sends hope  The children’s authors and illustraters of Washington State send their HOPE CARD. I shared some time in Sydney with Margaret H Lippert (Meg) who wrote the gorgeous picture book – Head, Body, Legs - A story from Liberia (published Henry Holt & Co NY). She wrote:- ‘We wish we could be with you in person. Instead we send our thoughts and our love from Seattle.’ Thankyou to SCBWI Washington for sending the Hope Card with a special hi to the coRAs and ARA - Kim Baker, Joni Sensel and Laurie    ...

SCBWI Writers & Illustrators at The ...

Authors Wendy Blaxland & Chris Cheng Great SCBWI meeting with exciting news from Chris Cheng about the development of the Oz SCBWI website, speakers directory, illustrator directory, youtube channel and the development of trailers. SCBWI Australia supports Room to Read www.roomtoread.org Specialist guest was Ron Jobe Professor Emeritus Language and Literacy Education at The University of British Columbia who had so many wonderful stories about authors and illustrators from around the world. Sue Whiting, Wendy Blaxland, Margaret Roc and other authors and illustrators...