This week I though I’d present four new picture books from the Narratives Library , together with very interesting interviews from the authors about their creation.
This is a book of wonderfully, rhythmic rhymes. Your toddler can do a nursery rap! Lovely illustrations by Pamela Allen.
Meredith Costain- Doodledum Dancing
Meredith Costain – Interview
Mark Greenwood – Our Country, Ancient Wonders
Mark Greenwood and Frane Lessac are a husband and wife book production team! Here is a book Mark has written on the wonderful archaeology of Australia with illustrations by Frane.
Frane Lessac- Australian Baby Animals
Originally from the USA, Frane is bowled over by how amazing the animal life is in Australia. You can hear her enthusiasm in the read and interview!
Frane Lessac- Interview
Mandy Foot – Joey and Riley
Mandy writes and illustrates her books and I have included an extra illustration image here as her read and interview are rolled into one.
This is a picture book for young readers about how it is okay to be different. Scot is the author and illustrator and he wrote it for his own little boy.
This is a beautiful book for any age about the origins of the Oxford English Dictionary. A young girl is raised in the Scriptorium, where all words are collected, defined, and written into the Great Dictionary. Some characters in the book are fictional and some are based on real people who undertook this enormous task. In the process of collection and definition, some words particular to women are lost.
As a young man Lech Blaine became every parent’s nightmare – he was the driver in a car that accidentally killed his friends.
In small community, there is nowhere to escape confronting the reality of this sort of tragedy. Lech Blaine reads from his memoir after the fatal crash scene has happened which claimed the lives of his friends.
Julie Bennett has first hand experience of the opera world . Her father was an opera singer, and as a child she also got to play in crowd scenes on the stage. For those at the very top it is a glamourous life, but the understudies are always hopeful in the wings. Although a work of total fiction, the descriptions of the impact of the Sydney Opera House are based on fact and well researched.
Sally Warriner was chief cook, bottlewasher, nurse, mother, jillaroo, community leader, office administrator – the list goes on and on!
In short anything the general Manager (her husband) didn’t do – she did!
In addition to entertaining a host of important guests, she was organizing outings for politicians and hosting special dinners – everything that came along with the role of being the ‘wife of the General Manager’ on one of the biggest cattle stations in Australia. One day she just got tired of being taken for granted.
Sally Warriner – Interview
Sally Warriner – reads from ‘….the Wife of the General Manager’.
If you love the Gruen Report you’ll love this wonderful collection of short stories, pithy observations and poignant stories all centered around life in fictional advertising agencies. From the horror of office cubicles to the power of sheer imagination, Ennis covers it all.
Ennis Cehic – Interview
Author Ennis Cehic
Broadcast on Arts Canvass Bay FM99.9 March 3
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