Tag: children's literature Archives · Wendy Orr
19th Jul
Have you ever ridden on a sea lion?
Miriam at Create Hope Inspire blog interviewed me about Rescue on Nim’s Island this week. Her two young sons also had some great questions! Here are a couple: Have you ever ridden on a…
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23rd Mar
Awards from home – Diamonds are a girl’s best friend
Okay, so the diamonds may be symbolic here! It’s always a thrill to be nominated for any award, but some awards have an extra sentimental kick for their particular book. RAVEN’S MOUNTAIN…
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25th Jan
Australia Day Book Giveaway
To celebrate Australia Day, Booked Out Blog is hosting a Book Giveaway Blog Hop – let’s see: 50 or so blogs means 50 or so books to be given away: now that’s a…
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14th Jan
Name a character competition
If you read my last post, you’ll know that at the last minute I decided I wanted to change some things in Rescue on Nim’s Island, which will be published by Allen…
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13th Sep
A PS to the Reading Hour: hooking kids into reading:
Australia’s official Reading Hour is over for another year, but I hope that the practice of reading to your child will continue throughout homes across the country, and the world, every day.…
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10th Mar
The Nim Story
Return to Nim’s Island comes to the big screen in Australia five years to the day after Nim’s Island; five and a half years after Nim at Sea was published, ten years…
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1st Mar
Read Across America: from Australia to Yonkers
The teachers in a Yonkers school have extended Read Across America a little this year: I’m reading to their Grade 3 and 4 classes from my home in Australia. But since the…
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16th Jan
Next Big Thing Blog Tour
I’ve been tagged for the Next Big Thing, a new blog tour where an author writes about their current work or next book. I was tagged by two lovely authors, Corinne Fenton,…
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9th Dec
Poppy’s Path excerpt
To follow up from yesterday’s post on the art of Ritva Voutila: I’m having trouble attaching a longer excerpt of Poppy’s Path on my site, so for Jill and anyone else who…
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8th Dec
The Selfish Giant lives again – the Art of Ritva Voutila
This is one of the most stunning picture books I’ve ever seen. I’ve been looking forward to it ever since Ritva used the winter picture on the invitation as an e-Christmas card…
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13th Oct
Plotting, planning, and the terror of a new story
I’ve been planning a new book for the last while – it’s always hard to say how long for, because some ideas for it have been floating around for several years. But…
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9th Oct
fiction favorites…Mokie and Bik � Orange Marmalade
fiction favorites…Mokie and Bik � Orange Marmalade The Orange Marmalade blog has done a lovely review of Mokie and Bik – I’m smiling at what she says about the story and words,…
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