New Children's and YA book awards in Australia

Friday, May 14th, 2010

The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards in Australia are now to include two new categories: Children’s Fiction and Young Adult’s Fiction, each with a AUS$100,000 prize. This says a lot about the current profile of writing for young people and we can all let out a cheer.

Thanks to CMIS Fiction Focus Blog for the heads up – read their post highlighting the judging panel here. I’m not sure what the dateline for the shortlist and winner announcements is but we’ll keep you posted…

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Mao's Last Dancer

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Read this post from CMIS Evaluation Blog all about Mao’s Last Dancer, both the new film and the books…

Then take a bit of time to peruse the rest of the Curriculum Materials Information Services (CMIS) blog… following on from Corinne’s recent post about multicultural Cinderella stories, I found this fairy-tale post particularly interesting…

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