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Issue Details:
First known date:
2008...
vol.
23
no.
4
September
2008
of
Magpies : Talking About Books for Children
est. 1986-1995
Magpies : Talking About Books for Children
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Contents
* Contents derived from the 2008 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Know the Author Illustrator : Shaun Tan,
Linnet Hunter
(interviewer),
single work
interview
Linnet Hunter interviews Shaun Tan about his compelling artwork and the 'imaginative universes' he continues to create, showcased in his latest book Tales from Outer Suburbia. Tan discusses the interplay between the words and pictures that produce his 'style' of illustration and some of the reasons his latest picture book is also formatted as a collection of short stories.
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Cover Book Review : Audrey Goes to Town,
single work
review
— Review of Audrey Goes to Town 2008 single work children's fiction ; (p. 14) -
Getting it Right : Culturally and Historically Writing Mahtab's Story,
single work
essay
Libby Gleeson discusses how she developed and then researched her novel Mahtab's Story. Gleeson originally planned that the story would involve a refugee student telling a young Australian school girl about her journey from her homeland to Australia. However, Gleeson soon realised that she needed to do additional research to construct the refugee Muslim teenager character. She describes how she met with refugee students from a Sydney high school to create an 'informed fiction' based on processes of storytelling and story-sharing.
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The Rep,
single work
column
The Residential Editorial Campaign is funded by the Australia Council for the Arts and by publishing houses. In 2008, its fifth year, it was held in Toowoomba where the focus, as introduced by the keynote speaker Michael Heyward, was on 'the importance of the "conversation" between author and editor and of the editors role in championing the author's work' (20). Award winning writer of Young Adult fiction, Margo Lanagan and her editor Rosalind Price, spoke of their twenty year working relationship, where Lanagan said she often felt she presented her editor with 'a senseless mosiac of ideas' (21).
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[Untitled],
single work
review
— Review of Cheeky Monkey 2008 single work picture book ; (p. 26) Section: Before School -
[Untitled],
single work
review
— Review of Sophie Bakes a Cake 2008 single work picture book ; (p. 26) Section: Before School -
[Review] Double Trouble,
single work
review
— Review of Double Trouble 2009 single work picture book ; (p. 26) Section: Before School -
[Untitled],
single work
review
— Review of Come on Everybody! Time to Play! 2008 single work picture book ; (p. 26) Section: Before School -
[Untitled],
single work
review
— Review of The Very Cranky Bear 2008 single work picture book ; (p. 26) Section: Before School -
[Untitled],
single work
review
— Review of Fat Pat 2008 single work picture book ; (p. 27) Section: Before School -
[Untitled],
single work
review
— Review of Felix 2008 single work picture book ; (p. 27-28) Section: Before School -
[Untitled],
single work
review
— Review of Just Jack 2008 single work picture book ; (p. 28) Section: Before School -
[Untitled],
single work
review
— Review of Donald Loves Drumming 2008 single work picture book ; (p. 28) Section: Before School -
[Untitled],
single work
review
— Review of Molly and Her Dad 2008 single work picture book ; (p. 28) Section: Before School -
[Untitled],
single work
review
— Review of Special Kev 2008 single work picture book ; (p. 28-29) Section: Before School -
[Untitled],
single work
review
— Review of Super Guinea Pig Saves the World 2008 single work picture book ; (p. 30) Section: Beginner Readers -
[Untitled],
single work
review
— Review of Mending Lucille 2008 single work picture book ; (p. 30) Section: Beginner Readers -
[Untitled],
single work
review
— Review of Sunday Chutney 2008 single work picture book ; (p. 30) Section: Beginner Readers -
[Review Essay] Teaching The Teacher,
single work
review
— Review of Teaching the Teacher 2008 single work picture book ; (p. 30) Section: Beginner Readers -
[Review] The Two-Hearted Numbat,
single work
review
— Review of The Two-Hearted Numbat 2008 single work picture book ; (p. 30) Section: Beginner Readers
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