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A short piece about James Moloney that includes an interview: "Ten Things You Need to Know About James Moloney" He names "Hole"s by Sachar and

"Children are heartily encouraged to read in their early years of school. However, once students have mastered this skill and they move from learning to read, to reading to learn, the role of pleasure in the activity can be forgotten. If reading is just seen as a tool for learning, the will to read may not be fostered in young people. Recreational book reading involves voluntary reading for pleasure, and research suggests that students in Australia and internationally are reading less over time."

"A post that celebrates some of the most creative children's libraries around the world:"

An argument against the censorship of reading matter. Some nice images and links to other information

"Write-a-Book-in-a-Day is a literary and fundraising initiative of the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre and Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation."

This tool gives students options to add both text and images to their covers using various templates. It does not include an option to save the work, so students have to complete and print their covers in one session.

Some useful loists for YA literature. Grouped under various topics and each book given a short description.

Data from a survey about books and digital references indicates that both are important to researchers/students in 2015.

The Great Book Swap Challenge

These posters offer artists impressions of the library buildings - with no books, but plenty of architectural details.

The seven tips here offer some advice if you want to read faster while maintaining reading comprehension. "Whether you skim a blog post, peruse files for work, or browse through a book, you most likely do some type of reading every day. But slogging through dense passages of text can be time-consuming, mentally exhausting, and hard on your eyes."

You can explore (US) historical pictures, maps, and more in the digital collections from the Library of Congress. The option to download of images is available. Any citation must be created by the user. "The LOC concentrates on its most rare collections and those unavailable anywhere else. The services are a gateway to a growing treasury of digitized photographs, manuscripts, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, and books, as well as "born digital" materials such as Web sites. In addition, the Library maintains and promotes the use of digital library standards and provides online research and reference service"

Great infogrpahic that creates a great image of Sci-Fi information that I was explaining to students not long ago. Much clearer here!

Links to Australian authors