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New Initiative by the ILF to support indigenous illustrators & writers
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Ann James sharing illustration techniques
The Pamela Lofts Mentorship Program was lauched this month with a weeks program in Sydney for seven talented young women from schools in remote regions of WA and the NT to develop their skills and knowledge in illustration and writing. Experienced writers, illustrators and people involved in the publishing industry were involved in the program facilitated by Indigenous Literacy Foundation ambassador Gregg Dreise.
More details of this wonderful program can be found here
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Other November events and awards
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Events coming up soon ...
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Melbourne City of Literature10th anniversary event
Running from 29-30 November, The City of Literature Parliament sessions will debate the past, present and future of Melbourne as a City of Literature. An opening night gala on Wednesday, 28 November will commence the celebrations with 10 writers, including Children's book author/illustrator Sally Rippin, discussing the literary culture of Melbourne.
The Wheeler Centre director Michael Williams said: ‘This anniversary of our UNESCO designation is a wonderful opportunity to look at the whole big machine and pay our respects to the glorious traditions of storytelling in this city and on this Wurundjeri country where we live and work.’
Melbourne is one of 28 UNESCO-designated Cities of Literature around the world. For more information about the 10th anniversary event, visit the Wheeler Centre website..
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The Indigenous Literacy Foundation invites you to attend its major annual
Victorian fundraising event - a Book Quiz - hosted by RocKwiz’s Brian Nankervis.
December 12, 2018
6pm to 9pm
Fitzroy Town Hall
Book Now
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CBCA National Conference May 31 to June 2
QT, 1 London Circuit Canberra
The program will highlight the outstanding contribution made by writers
and illustrators of humour to Australian Children's Literature.
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Wilderness Society Award
On November 8, we attended the announcement and presentation of the
2018 Environment Awards for Children's Literature in Melbourne at the Younger Sun Bookshop in Yarraville. This award is presented annually by the Wilderness Society to fiction and nonfiction children's books that ‘foster a love of wild places and wildlife in young Australians’ and ‘encourage a sense of responsibility for our natural world’.
The winners - Florette by Anna Walker (Viking/Penguin) in the Picture fiction section; Coral Sea Dreaming by Kim Michelle Toft (Silkim Books) & Rock Pool Secrets by Narelle Oliver (Walker Books) in the non-fiction section and Wombat Warriors by Samantha Wheeler (UQP).
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Congratulations are due to so many Australian creator's and publishers of Australian Children's Books who's work has been acknowledeged recently in awards - nationally and internationally. A few examples featuring illustration are -
Nationally
Feathers (Phil Cummings & Phil Lesnie, Scholastic); Figgy Takes the City (Tamsin Janu, Scholastic); Hark, It’s Me, Ruby Lee! (Lisa Shanahan & Binny Talib, Lothian); Pea Pod Lullaby (Glenda Millard & Stephen Michael King, A&U) and Storm Whale (Sarah Brennan & Jane Tanner, A&U) have been shortlisted in Children’s fiction section of The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards as has Ruben (Bruce Whatley, Scholastic) in the Young adult fiction section. Alison Lester is also the only children's author/illustrator to be a finalist in the 2018 Melbourne Prize for Literature
Internationally
Nominations for the UK Kate Greenaway Medal for distinguished illustration in a book for children and young people included two Australian illustrators, Bob Graham for The Poesy Ring (Walker) and Allison Colpoys for If All the World Were…
(written by Joseph Coehlo, Frances Lincoln).
Ten authors and illustrators from Australia and New Zealand and one Australian organisation have been nominated for the 2019 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the richest international children’s and young adult literature award in the world.
The Australian nominees are Randa Abdel-Fattah; Ursula Dubosarsky;
Mem Fox; Susanne Gervay; Morris Gleitzman; Robert Ingpen; Margo Lanagan; Melina Marchetta; Margaret Wild and the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
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We'd also like to draw attention to two current highlights in the illustration world ...
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South Korea Exhibits Alphabet City Zoo
Letter Art Exhibition Alphabet City Zoo by Maree Coote, published by Melbournestyle will be exhibited in South Korea from November 3, 2018 to January 24, 2019.
Choosing the best of the Bologna Ragazzi Award winners at the Bologna Children's Book Fair, curator Lee Run-Hwa has created a delightful and unique world of letters from Maree's typographic art in her beautiful book, including a walk-through installation that brings her amazing letter art to life. More details here
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New York Times Award
Since it's publication in 2017, Florette written & illustrated by Anna Walker, published by Viking, has been recognised as an important picture book. Not only has it won the Picture fiction section of the 2018 Environment Award for Children's Literature in Australia, it has also been shortlisted for The 2018 New York Times /New York public Library Best Illustrated Children's Books.
Since 1952, a rotating annual panel of three expert judges considers every illustrated children’s book published that year in the United States. They select the winners purely on the basis of artistic merit. The judges this year were Leonard Marcus, a children’s literature historian and critic; Jenny Rosenoff, a children’s librarian at the New York Public Library; and Bryan Collier, the author and illustrator of many acclaimed picture books and a past winner of the award.
Anna will attend a reception at the New York Public Library on November 15 and Florette will be featured in a special children’s books section of an upcoming edition of the NYT Book Review.
Purchase a limited edition print and signed copy of Florette here
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Hear Florette read by ABCMe Mustangs FC's, Emmanuelle Mattana, in the fabulous Story Box Library.
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November with the Australian Children's Laureate
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Morris Gleitzman's note for November
'There are lots of things about stories worth celebrating. We get to have spills and thrills, horror and hilarity, ideas and insights, all from the comfort of our own reading pillow. We discover that in our imaginations anything is possible. We get to see what individuals like us are capable of.
The more we read, the more we develop our creativity, empathy, bravery, strength, honesty, intelligence, curiosity, cheekiness and wisdom almost without realising it. And when we finish a story and turn back to the real world and notice the size of some of the problems there, we only flinch briefly because we know we have the power. The power to make our future.'
Morris Gleitzman continues to inspire us!
Check out the Laureate website for book ideas for November
and a great competition - entries due Nov 15!
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Books Illustrated is an enthusiastic supporter of the Australian Children's Laureate
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Copyright Agency's Reading Australia
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