Just kidding. In this, my thirtieth year of being a children’s librarian, I came to the end of my second year of judging for the Children’s Book Council of Australia awards, and could finally resume reading what I liked, when I liked. I have a few new subscribers since my last post (thank you, andContinue reading “The Year without a Book 2007”
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In a Flap 1980
The question on the cover Where’s Spot? alerts the reader that this will be a quest. There is backstory in this first spread. Sally must be Spot’s mother – if the smacky opening sentence doesn’t give it away, we see that her bowl is the larger. She’s rolling her eyes so that we know we’reContinue reading “In a Flap 1980”
