Student to class teacher: Miss, can I borrow this book please? Teacher: No, you can't - this isn't at your reading level. Choose something else. Teacher librarian: Students should be encouraged to borrow uncontrolled texts from the school library, such as chapter books and informational texts, to look at the pictures or read them with... Continue Reading →
National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) is a free online event held annually by Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). Promoting reading and literacy, an Aussie children’s book is chosen and read simultaneously across Australia within libraries, schools, preschools, childcare centres, homes and bookshops. Age appropriate themes Addresses key learning areas of National Curriculum Foundation to Year... Continue Reading →
Maggie-Jean Douglas is the winner of the National NAIDOC poster competition for 2021. Her breathtaking artwork tells the story of the many ways country provides healing. The vivid colours and different landscapes of red dirt, green grass, bush land and coastal areas are stunning to observe.
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I write southern historical fiction, local history, and I've written a devotional book. The two novels I'm writing are set in Virginia and the Carolinas in the 1760s. My weekly blog started out to follow my journey as a writer and a reader, but in 2025 it has been greatly expanded to include current events and politics in the United States as I see our democracy under attack from within. The political science major in me cannot sit idly by and remain silent.
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