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Machino Supremo! Poems about machines by Janeen Brian & Mark Carthew, illustrated John Veeken (Celapene Press) - NOW AVAILABLE!

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EXCITING NEW RELEASE!
Newts, Lutes and Bandicoots by Mark Carthew & Illustrated by Mike Spoor.

Great NEW design & Hardback edition (IP Kidz) inc. visual puzzles. Find the hidden objects based on word ending sounds & the hidden newt and bandicoot playing a lute. Are you good enough?

Mike Spoor (UK) and Mark at Dromkeen

COMING SOON… Witches Britches, Itches and twitches!

Images © Mike Spoor

• New MARK CARTHEW poster available from SYBA SIGNS!
  
  
• UK cartoonist & children’s illustrator Mike Spoor is visiting Australia in August ’09 & touring along with Mark!
  (For bookings and further details please contact Bronwen Bennett at Show& Tell Promotions Ph: 1300-732-339)

• Mark is a guest author on the first Kidz Book Club DVD OUT NOW!

Last year was an exciting year with numerous schools visits across Australia & presentations at the New Zealand Reading Association Bridges to Literacy Conference in Hamilton NZ , All Saints Literature Festival in WA, Voices on the Range Festival, All Saints Livewire Festival Qld and The Melbourne Writers Festival, 2008 Christchurch Writer’s Festival NZ & Te Tai Tamariki Children's Literature Trust’s School Programs.

Wicked Wizards & Leaping Lizards and Five Little Owls were both shortlisted in the 2008 Speech Pathology Australia Book Awards. The Gobbling Tree and Can You Keep a Secret? Timeless Rhymes to Share and Treasure were both released and I’ve just finished a music CD to go with Can You Keep a Secret? recorded at Highway 9 Productions, featuring wonderful musician & singer Michelle Meehan.

Upcoming events…

2010

April 7: 6:30pm - 8:00pm Seminar with Kathryn Duncan from Celapene Press ‘All for One, One for All – Collaboration in publishing’. The Wheeler Center, Bookings via Victorian Writers Center

May 12: 11.00am-12.30pm Anglican Kindergarten Teachers Conference St Vincent’s Hospital Workshop session: ‘Moppity-mop & Poppity-pop!’

May 28-29: International Conference Writing for Young Readers - An International Conference on Writers of Children’s Books, Biography and Canon PH Bern, Institut Sekundarstufe 1, Switzerland. Paper and round table panel. 'Seeing the blue between: Children's writing in the margins'

June 5: 2010 Early Childhood Conference Together We Grow Kindergarten Parents Victoria (KPV) & Gowrie Centre Caulfield Race Course 3.00pm -Workshop session: ‘Zoom, zoom, zoom, we’re going to the moon!’

June 23-25: 9th International Conference of the Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research (ACLAR). , Wollongong University, N.S.W. Australia. Paper: 'One hand clapping? The impact of distribution practice on Australian children’s writers and their creative work.'

August 21- 27: Children’s Book Week

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