I’m dying here, people. Torn. Torn. Torn. Half of me wants to let the cat out of the bag, the other half wants to warn off anyone who hasn’t yet read Henry Hoey Hobson. Teachers Notes for HHH are now available. They’re awesome, but be warned, they do contain, ahem, spoilers (like a chapter-by-chapter breakdown of [...]
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Spoiler Alert!
Posted: November 4, 2010 in Teachers Notes, YA FictionTags: Henry Hoey Hobson, Jean Yates, Random House Australia, Teachers Notes
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Knocking myself out at BWF
Posted: June 2, 2010 in Events, Teachers Notes, YA FictionTags: Brisbane Writers Festival, Christine Bongers, Knocking myself out at BWF, Morris Gleitzman, Word Play
The gods are rubbing their hands and giggling with wicked delight. Only days after publicly revealing my fear of ever again sharing a signing table with Morris Gleitzman, they’ve conspired to put us on the same bill for this year’s Word Play at the Brisbane Writers Festival. For those who missed it the first time, [...]
And when the girls went “awwww”
Posted: March 11, 2010 in Teachers Notes, Writing, YA FictionTags: And the girls go "awwww", Christine Bongers, Dust, pet lambs with collars, pulling out the paisley, school visits, Stuartholme College
I know. A pet lamb the size of a dugong, with its own collar. What’s not to love? But the rapture of those Grade Eight girls at Stuartholme still caught me by surprise. Who could have guessed those old seventies photos would be such a hit? Author talks are still a novelty for me. Dust [...]
Warning: contains spoilers
Posted: August 13, 2009 in Dust, Teachers Notes, YA FictionTags: Christine Bongers, Dust, Judith Ridge, Misrule, study notes, Teachers Notes, Young Adult Fiction
If you haven’t yet read Dust, do not click on this link. It will take you with the speed of light to the newly posted teachers notes (which might spoil it for anyone who hasn’t yet read the book). If you don’t care about spoilers, click here with impunity; Judith Ridge’s incisive discussion of the [...]
