Esme in the Limelight by Kate Gordon
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by Helen Edwards
2w ago
If you know me, you will know that Kate Gordon is one of my favourite authors and human beings. If you haven’t read any of the books in this beautiful companion series, you must run out now and get them all. Anyone who has read the other books will have been waiting eagerly for this latest story – Esme in the Limelight. We were introduced to Esme back in the beginning, with the 2021 CBCA award-winning Aster’s Good Right Things. Esme worked in the milkbar and was an important secondary character, with Aster telling us about her ‘blue hair like the secret feathers some ducks have’ in the opening ..read more
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Queenie in Seven Moves by Zanni Louise
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by Helen Edwards
2M ago
Zanni Lousie is a well-known author of many wonderful picture books for children and a supporter of the children’s literary community in Australia. She runs workshops and retreats for writers, hosts a podcast and mentors other writers. Her first middle grade novel, Queenie In Seven Moves, was published by Walker Books in 2023 and Candlewick in 2024. Her new middle grade, Cora Seen and Heard will be released May 2024. Queenie in Seven Moves is told across a summer in the life of Queenie at the end of year 7. Covid-19 is restricting gatherings and visits to aged care homes, with a wider impact o ..read more
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The Rebels of Mount Buffalo Longlisted for the DANZ Children’s Book Awards!
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by Helen Edwards
2M ago
This week I had a wonderful surprise when the longlist for the inaugural DANZ children’s book awards were announced and I found The Rebels of Mount Buffalo on the middle-grade longlist! The DANZ Children’s Book Award, launched for 2024, stands for The Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand Children’s Book Award. It has been created to “recognise, award, and celebrate diverse children’s fiction. This means a children’s book published in Australia or New Zealand which pushes boundaries, challenges stereotypes, and celebrates diverse and marginalised people and communities.” For the Awar ..read more
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Protecting our Oceans
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by Helen Edwards
2M ago
Our Nullarbor road trip from SA to WA and back again, more than a decade ago, was one of our best road trips ever. As a lifelong whale lover, the 148 whales in the Bay at the Head of the Bight was the pinnacle for me – Yes, 148! Across my life, I’ve gazed out across the ocean seeking a glimpse of a whale from the Great Ocean Road, to Encounter Bay, to Warrnambool, and across the Nullarbor. I could spend days just waiting to have that one moment of magic. It’s a deeply emotional connection for me. And now, a new story idea featuring the Southern Right Whale and Humpback Whale, is emerging from ..read more
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The First Summer of Callie McGee by A.L. Tait
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by Helen Edwards
2M ago
The First Summer of Callie McGee by A.L. Tait was an apt read for me over the Christmas-New Year week. Filled with references to summer in Australia, beachside towns, and the tensions between local and tourist kids, this gentle coming-of-age story with a mystery twist, tells the tale of 12-year-old Callie McGee across one week of the summer holidays, in the transition time between primary and high school. Callie and her family are staying at their regular beach shack, In the Rip, for the annual family and friends holiday. She’s an only child with an over-protective, worrying mum, and she’s lon ..read more
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The Letterbox Tree by Rebecca Lim & Kate Gordon
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by Helen Edwards
5M ago
The Letterbox Tree is by two of my favourite Australian authors, Rebecca Lim and Kate Gordon. As you’d expect from two such talented writers, this upper middle-grade/lower YA novel takes some extremely difficult and very real topics and wraps them up in a warm story of found friendship, self-belief and hope. The story is centred around two girls, Nyx and Bea, living 70 years apart, whose friendship grows through their mutual solace discovered within a very special tree. Nyx and Bea may be separated by the decades, but they fast become bonded through their need for friendship and a yearning for ..read more
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The Rebels of Mount Buffalo Pre-release Road Trip!
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by Helen Edwards
5M ago
On a sunny Sunday morning on the 8th October, the Buffalo Rebels Road Crew set off on an adventure to the Nth East of Victoria for The Rebels of Mount Buffalo Pre-release Road Trip! The crew consisted of myself, my husband John, and our 15-year-old son Maxwell. I organised the tour myself, and it took many weeks of my life to get everything into place. I had some help from the fantastic Belinda at Edgar’s Books and News, who hooked me up with some local bookshops and press, and was very kind and generous. My publisher made sure I had plenty of books, as it’s not yet officially released, and ma ..read more
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Bidhi Galing by Anita Heiss & Samantha Campbell
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by Helen Edwards
6M ago
Dr Anita Heiss is an internationally published, award-winning author of 23 books; non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women’s fiction and children’s novels. She is a proud member of the Wiradyuri Nation of central New South Wales, an Ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and the GO Foundation, and Professor of Communications at the University of Queensland. Her novel, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray about the Great Flood of Gundagai, won the 2022 NSW Premier’s Indigenous Writer’s Prize and was shortlisted for the 2021 ARA Historical Novel Prize and the 2022 ABIA Awards. Anita’s ..read more
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Buffalo Rebels Book Tour!
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by Helen Edwards
7M ago
It’s just over a month until The Rebels of Mount Buffalo will be released officially into the world! After a long time researching, writing, editing, dreaming, interviewing, planning and working hard with my talented publisher on making the book the best it could be, it feels as if we are standing on the edge of The Gorge at Mount Buffalo, looking out across the ocean of clouds, almost ready to launch! I have been working with some lovely people to arrange a series of events from 10th – 17th October across North East Victoria and into NSW at Albury, followed by my Adelaide launch on 29th Octob ..read more
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Gladys & Stripey by Michele Gierck & Marina Zlatanova
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by Helen Edwards
7M ago
Being the smallest fish in the stream is not easy. For Gladys and Stripey, it gets even harder when, after a night of heavy rain, fast flowing water sweeps them out of their home habitat. What can they do? Will they make it back home? This (almost) true story, written by Michele Gierck, is based on an Australian threatened fish species called Galaxiella pusilla. Told in rhyme, with accompanying scientific notes, young and not-so-young readers will discover all sorts of interesting facts about waterways, this special fish species and its habitat. Trust and courage are as much themes of this b ..read more
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