Published at: 07:07 pm - Thursday July 16 2009
UQP, $24.95 pb, ISBN 9780702237157
These 19 stories by award-winning, Indigenous, West Australian author Archie Weller are published here together for the first time. Retrospective in scope, the collection ranges from his very early work (including the first stories he ever wrote), to more recent and commissioned works.
These are stories about finding identity within one’s own [...]
Published at: 01:04 am - Tuesday April 14 2009
Restoring the Balance Review by Paula Grunseit
The Coretta Scott King Awards, 1970-2004. 3rd ed Ed. by Henrietta M Smith. Chicago: American Library Association, 2004.176p US$35.00 soft ISBN 0838935400
This comprehensive and important book pays tribute to 35 years of Coretta Scott King Awards given to outstanding African-American writers and illustrators in the field of children’s literature—Maya [...]
Published at: 12:03 am - Wednesday March 11 2009
When people think ‘SBS’—Australia’s national multicultural, multilingual broadcaster—they think ‘SBS TV’ but did you know that SBS actually began as a radio network in 1975 five years before SBS TV went to air? SBS Radio Sydney Library Manager Paula Grunseit tells us about SBS radio’s role, charter and diversity.
SBS Radio, established in 1975 as a [...]