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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Our Story: Rediscovering Australian History
Originally published in The Horn Book Magazine November-December 2002 Australian children, so the accepted wisdom goes, aren’t interested in history. They don’t read historical fiction, they’re especially not interested in Australian history, and they just won’t read about it. So don’t bother publishing it, because the libraries won’t buy it, because the kids won’t read…
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