ACHIEVEMENTS BY BUZZ WORDERS
We are now showcasing the amazing achievements of Buzz Words readers each month in our blog. We hope that you support each and every one of them!
Janet Reid has an early reader, Trouble for
Toby (Wombat Books) being released this month. Toby has one mission at
school: to stay out of trouble! Only then will his parents let him have a pet.
But that's just it, Toby has trouble staying out of trouble. Will he ever get a
pet? And if he does, what pet will he choose?
The book is brought to life with
illustrations by Amanda Francey and is ideal for the young reader seeking the
challenge of a short chapter book. The book will be launched on Saturday 16
June – 1.30pm at The Artist Café and Gallery, 662 Samford Road, Mitchelton,
Qld, 4053. All welcome!
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Congratulations to Bill Condon for his two acceptances from NSW School Magazine, a poem ‘Swish Swash’
and a play called ‘Snow White and the Seven Sumos.’
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Wow, what
wonderful news: Debra
Tidball’s interactive picture book The Scared Book, has won the SCWBI
Crystal Award for books published in Australia and New Zealand!
Well, done Debra! Everyone is so pleased for
you.
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Congratulations to Al Tait who has been invited to participate in the Word Play program designed for
students from prep to year 12, at The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) from 4 to
7 September. Word Play will also present professional development sessions for
teachers featuring a selection of authors and illustrators, and an Online
Literature Festival, which will connect Word Play authors with students and
educators in regional Queensland.
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Here’s a new book, Olivia Stone and the Dread of the Dreamers by Jeffery E Doherty
"I don’t like spiders…they
give me the shivers.” Olivia
shudders to prove her point.
Dreamweavers feed
on the dread and despair of their victims. To help Yip stop their
nightmarish infestation of the city, Olivia must prowl dark streets, brave the
boy’s toilet, and break into the old Haven Asylum. She must face her
greatest fear, the mother of all spiders, if she has any hope of saving her
friend, Emmett.
Jeffery E Doherty’s new middle grade
novel, Olivia Stone and the Dread of the Dreamers, Book 2 of The
Guardians of St Giles series will be on sale in Australia, UK and New
Zealand on 1 August 2018, and is available for pre-order until the 11th July
2018, through IFWG Publishing Australia.
www.ifwgaustralia.com
As a bonus, the
first 50 people pre-ordering the title will also receive a signed, illustrated
book plate.
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A new book out this month is The Fastest Ship in
Space by Pamela Freeman (new edition published by
Christmas Press under its Second Look Publishing imprint), with brand new cover
and internal illustrations by Yvonne
Low. Yvonne created the cover illustrations (see
left) initially in pencil then finished them digitally, and the internal
illustrations were created in pencil, pen and ink. ***
How wonderful for Rachel Noble to have her debut book, Finn’s
Feather, illustrated by Zoey Abbott, released this month by New South
Publishing and published by Enchanted Lion based in Brooklyn, US. It is a
gentle and touching story about a little boy grieving the loss of his brother.
Finn
knows his brother is gone. But he also knows that Hamish sent the beautiful
white feather on his doorstep. Finn runs to show his mother the feather from
Hamish, but she only gives him a big hug. In school, Finn’s teacher responds
similarly. Why isn’t anyone as excited as he is?
Finn’s Feather is a story about resilience and memory— about a child, his brother, and a
friend who meets him where he is. The author was inspired to write Finn’s
Feather, following the loss of her son Hamish in 2012. Rachel says she enjoys
writing for children, particularly stories that sensitively empower them to
navigate big feelings. Rachel loves rainbows, the beach and of course,
feathers. She is lucky to get all of this in Queensland Australia, where she
lives.
In two days’ time, Rachel will head to the US
to launch Finn’s Feather at the
American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans. She will also
visit bookstores in Alabama and Mississippi and will appear at the American
Booksellers Association Children’s Institute. She has included a few
links to reviews of the book. https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59270-239-8
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Congratulations to Sarah Epstein whose book Small Spaces (Walker Books Australia) is on the shortlist of Readings
Young Adult Book prize www.readings.com.au/the-readings-young-adult-book-prize
In the book, Tash Carmody has been traumatised since childhood, when she
witnessed her gruesome imaginary friend Sparrow lure young Mallory Fisher away
from a carnival. At the time nobody believed Tash, and she has since come to
accept that Sparrow wasn’t real. Now fifteen and mute, Mallory’s never spoken
about the week she went missing. As disturbing memories resurface, Tash starts
to see Sparrow again.
It’s terrific to hear that Fizz and
the Police Dog Tryouts (A&U) by Lesley Gibbes illustrated by Stephen Michael
King, has been shortlisted in the Red Dot Book Children’s Choice Awards
2017-2018 in the Younger Readers category by the International School Libraries
Network in Singapore.
Fizz and the Police Dog Tryouts (Kane Miller) has also been
included on the Banks Street College's Best Children's Books of the Year list
in America. The list is one of the most comprehensive annotated book lists
for children, aged infant -16. The committee reviews over 6,000 titles each
year for accuracy and literary quality and considers their emotional impact on
children. It chooses the best 600 books, both fiction and nonfiction, which it
lists with annotations, according to age and category.
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