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'The Littlest Penguin: and the Phillip Island Penguin Parade' by Jedda Robaard, and The Penguin Foundation
The adorable little penguins come waddling and tumbling out of the water and up the hill, back to their burrows on the island . . . But that’s just the end of an even more amazing story.
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'Shadow Catchers' by Kirsty Murray, illustrated by Karen Blair
A delightful picture book that celebrates the joy of young children trying to catch their shadows – from the creators of CBCA Honour Book When Billy was a Dog and Puddle Hunters.
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'The Catch: Australia's love affair with fishing' by Anna Clark
Originally published to accompany an exhibition at the National Library of Australia, now with updated material and all new photographs.
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'I Don't: The Case Against Marriage' by Clementine Ford
A new story about the old lie …
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'The Vitals' by Tracy Sorensen
‘This book pulls off the holy trinity of great writing: it’s experimental, playful and meaningful all at once. I felt changed after reading it, put back together differently – in the same way that Sorensen was left radically changed after surviving cancer. It has shifted my view of organs and bodies (my own and others’) forever. There’s a courage that animates this book that is hard to define, but I think it’s the sort of artistic and personal courage that comes not only from enduring something that is beyond words, but of still being willing to take creative risks on the other side in order to ‘voice’ the unsayable. The Vitals is suffused by courage of this kind – and I’m grateful to Sorensen for risking so much to bring this book into being.’ — Ceridwen Dovey, award-winning author of Only the Animals
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'I’m Your Favourite Book' by Maggie Hutchings, illustrated by Jess Racklyeft
A beautiful celebration of the magic of books, and a reminder of how the books we read as children stay with us forever.
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JdM creators in the Speech Pathology awards 2023 shortlist
The Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards aim to ‘promote quality Australian books that help children get the best, most literate start in life’. The books shortlisted are judged on their ‘appeal to children, interactive quality and ability to assist speech pathologists and parents in communication and literacy development’.
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'Eventually Everything Connects" Eight Essays on Uncertainty' by Sarah Firth
A delicious mix of daily life, science, philosophy, pop culture, daydreams and irreverent humour, Eventually Everything Connects is a graphic novel that is comforting, confronting and mind-expanding in equal measure.
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Lending Rights are here!
You’ve heard right – Public Lending Rights are here, and we’re working to distribute them to everyone as payments come in.
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Grace Chan wins Aurealis Award!
Author Grace Chan has won an Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story. The solarpunk tree transformation tale As Though I Were a Little Sun appeared in the May 2022 Fireside Magazine issue 102.
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Comer launches 'Sunshine on Vinegar Street'!
Comer’s new new Middle Grade verse novel Sunshine on Vinegar Street now out with Allen & Unwin, following on from her YA verse novel debut Grace Notes which came out with Hachette in February of this year.
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Grace Chan wins 2023 University of Sydney People’s Choice Award
Grace Chan wins 2023 University of Sydney People’s Choice Award for her novel, Every Version of You
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Grace Chan’s 'Every Version of You' optioned to become an international feature film
Grace Chan’s highly acclaimed debut novel, Every Version of You, has been optioned to adapt into an international feature film by Cognito Entertainment, a major new independent film and television production company launched this week in the US.
The film deal with Cognito Entertainment for Every Version of You was negotiated by Bold Type Agency on behalf of Jacinta di Mase Management and Grace Chan.Posted
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Tess Woods sells to Penguin Random House!
New book alert! Danielle and Jacinta have brokered a World Rights deal to Ali Watts of Penguin Random House, for Tess Wood’s new commercial fiction title, The Venice Hotel!
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Sandy Bigna joins JdM!
Following from last week’s KidLit Vic conference; agent Danielle Binks has signed author Sandy Bigna to the agency!
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