Articles and Papers
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RE:Views Conference, 11-13 March 2005
The RE:Views conference was organised by the South Australia Writer’s Centre as part of the Come Out Youth Arts Festival. It was a follow-up to the 1993 Views on Reviews conference, which attempted to address the problems associated with the reviewing of children’s and young adult books. I don’t consider this my best-ever paper; it was…
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Stories to Make Mountains Start Breathing
From the March/April 2006 issue of The Horn Book MagazineForeign CorrespondenceStories to Make Mountains Start Breathing by Judith RidgeWhen Popeye Bobby walks in, everybody stands back. He’s real gentle this old fulla, but no one messes with him, neither. He’s real powerful… He can tell you stories that make mountains start breathing. —from The Binna Binna Manby Meme…
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How Diana Wynne Jones Changed My Life
This is the paper I gave at Diana Wynne Jone: A Conference, in at the University of the West of England, Bristol, July 2009. It’s a mix of personal anecdote and analysis of English fantasy and Australian children’s fiction of the 60s and 70s. But mostly it was, and is, my heartfelt thanks and tribute…
