The authorial crafting may be right brain with a touch of editing or slow and laborious left brain plotting. Better still, go along and have a squizz – Level 2, Brisbane Square Library, George Street Brisbane CBD, from 13th July to 31st August, 2012!īooks are created from the imagination and inspiration of authors and the insightful vision of illustrators. Read other reports of the Exhibition on Anil Tortop’s Blog and the SCBWI Facebook page. It is vindicating, as an author or as an illustrator, to have people acknowledge the work that goes into a book’s creation and to have a new appreciation of the end result! Virginia Lowe of “Create a Kid’s Book” fame and Lucia Masciullio of Blue Quoll Publishing, teachers and teacher librarians from Brisbane and Ipswich. Jenny gave a stirring and encouraging speech to gathered authors, illustrators and friends, despite protesting she didn’t fancy herself a speaker. Jenny Stubbs, Coordinator of one of Australia’s leading children’s book festivals, “Ipswich Festival of Children’s Literature”, came down from Ipswich to open the exhibition. The launch was wonderful, a chance to see everything in place, admire friends’ exhibits, show it all off to friends and family and network! Sheryl Gwyther, Prue Mason of SCBWI and Michelle Richards organised the launch event. Latest addition, number six, Rachelle Burk has a wonderful resource site – – her awarded list of wonderfully helpful links is truly encyclopaedic! If you haven’t joined I highly recommend it – an excellent networking site for all things related to children’s literature and books. The third, a veritable database of bloggers who interview and/or review, is continuously being updated by the very proactive authors, Delin Colon and Lisa Kalner Williams – …įourth – a database of legends and folktales – if you are looking for inspiration for twists on fairytales or legends, fables etc – here is a whole swag!įifth – oh this one is an essential! The inimitable Katie Davis’s Tool Kit is linked out under 5 ‘HEADLINE’ headings!! I also recommend his ebook on query /submission letter writing.Ī second list, an international one, that is regularly updated is on Lou Treleaven’s Blog: The first, compiled by the enterprising and enthusiastic Brain Grove, is a list of US publishers who are currently accepting submissions for children’s books – – he also, very helpfully, adds links to each entry to take you straight to the site. Lists can be extremely useful, especially when they are constantly being updated! I’m in Celebrity Corner with Kerry Brown, Christian Bocquee, Terry Denton, Lucia Masciullo and numbers of other wonderfully creative folk! I’m thrilled to be part of this year’s Summer Reading Club. The Untangled Tales game is a blast – great fun! It challenges memory and prods research capabilities and informs about other cultures, their customs and attitudes as reflected in their fairytales and legends.Ĭheck out the side tabs and their drop down menus – there is heaps and heaps of fun activity, fantastic tales, playful poetry and fanciful stories, arty opportunities, creative competitions in writing and art activities and painless learning along the way!! The Celebrity Corner questions brought out the creative quirkiness of authors and illustrators in a very entertaining way and featured a very diverse group of creatives! The site is gorgeous to look at, easy to navigate, entertaining in content and layout and engagingly informative! Going over the site, was like being in one of the famous ‘But WAIT, there’s more!’ advertisements! At every click of the mouse, there was more and all of it FREE! There is something here for children of all ages, for their parents, teachers and librarians. The Untangled Tales website is the best of the Summer Reading sites.
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