AUGUST is
History Month but also Children’s Book Week.
Blackburn
author Hazel Edwards OAM still lives in the house where the cake-eating hippo from
‘There’s a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake’ was created almost 40 years
ago. This historic children’s book character has been selected as one of The
National Library of Australia’s ‘Story
Time; Australian Children’s Literature’, exhibition in August and an
accompanying book is to be released nationally on the 1st September
2019. The ‘Storytime Stars’ book will be available from the National Library
Bookshop in Canberra from August to accompany the exhibition which runs until
February. 2020.
Her
co-written YA novel‘’f2m;the boy within’
(Ford Street Publishing, 2010 ) the first Australian YA novel co-written by a
trans ftm author, family friend Ryan Kennedy, will be included as a significant
young adult novel in the same exhibition.
Currently it has inspired a comic graphic novel ‘The Boy Within’ by NZ based, Australian transguys Ryan Kennedy
and Sam Orchard. About coming of age as a transguy.
Story Time: Australian Children’s Literature (22 August 2019 – 09 February
2020) is presented in association with the National Centre for Australian
Children’s Literature. It features books, manuscripts, illustrations and
ephemera from our collection, complemented by loans from NCACL and others.
The
exhibition will be arranged thematically, with picture books, children’s and YA
novels included. The book F2M will be displayed in a section about
family, friendship and identity. There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating
Cake will be located in an area that looks at books exploring other worlds,
imaginary friends and fairies
CONTACTS
Stephanie Morris | Image Content & Publishing
Assistant | NLA Publishing | Unbound
Exhibition curator, Grace Blakeley-Carroll gblakeley@nla.gov.au
02 6262 1463
National
Library of Australia, Parkes Place, Canberra ACT | ph: 02 6262 1664 |
e: stmorris@nla.gov.au
Hazel
Edwards also interviewed many local celebrants in her research for ‘Celebrant
Sleuth; I Do or Die,’ her adult mystery which has just become available on
AUDIBLE. One of the first Australian
authors to voice her own novel where the narrator is of diverse gender.
Quinn is
a celebrant with style and a few obsessions but a good heart,solves quirky
problems, mysteries and the occasional murder at weddings, funerals and naming
ceremonies in her country town. Also writes eulogies to die for.
m
0409022702 On Twitter as muirmoir
AUDIBLE
link for ‘Celebrant Sleuth;I Do or Die’
Wheelers
Hill Producer; Spring Studio, Harry
Williamson who provided original music also.
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