Posts by Judith
Deadly, Unna? by Phillip Gwynne
Deadly, Unna? by Phillip Gwynne Deadly, Unna? was the first novel by Phillip Gwynne and was an immediate critical and commercial success. It won the Book of the Year Award: Older Readers in the 1999 Children’s Book Council of Australia awards. The following review first appeared in Viewpoint: On Books for Young Adults, Volume 6…
Read MoreThe Gathering by Isobelle Carmody
This review was first published in Viewpoint: On Books for Young Adults Volume 1 Number 3 (Spring 1993) “Do you believe in good and evil, Mum?” I asked… “…I mean evil as a sort of force that you could fight.” She frowned. “Evil and good are potentials in all of us. You have a…
Read MoreMaurice Sendak on The Colbert Report Part 1
It’s taken me a couple of days to be able to see this video, but here it is, available outside the US at last! Part 1 here, Part 2 to come. What a joy to make this the first embedded video on the new WordPress Misrule! The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political…
Read MoreLaunch speech for John Larkin’s Bite Me!
This was the speech I made to launch Bite Me! , a collection of short stories by John Larkin, somewhere around 1999/2000. Before tonight, I had never met John Larkin. Now this may come as something of a surprise to you, for a number of reasons. If you know John, I guess that you would…
Read MoreBoys of Blood and Bone by David Metzenthen
[I don’t seem to have a record of where this was first published!] David Metzenthen’s Boys of Blood and Bone is an ambitious novel linking the stories of Henry Lyon, in the summer before he starts his first year of Law at university, and Andy Lansell, Australian digger killed in the Somme in 1918. Andy…
Read MoreWelcome to Misrule on WordPress
Hello and welcome to the brand new platform for the Misrule blog. If you have travelled over from the old site at misrule.com.au/s9y , thanks for making the move. If you’ve come across this as a new site, well, thanks for dropping by. The history is, this is the third incarnation of the Misrule blog,…
Read MoreKnow the Author : Randa Abdel-Fattah
Published in Magpies Magazine, Vol. 26 No. 1, March 2011 Randa Abdel-Fattah has been one of Australia’s most well-known and successful writers for young people in Australia for more than twenty years. In more recent years, she has become known across the Australian community for her staunch advocacy for Palestine and the Palestinian people. Randa’s…
Read MoreMarkus Zusak Interview
I believe this interview was written in 2006. It was done for the US Bookseller and Publisher, although the published version underwent a very heavy copyedit and actually bore very little relationship to what I wrote (or what Markus said!). Anyway, water under the bridge, this is the original draft as submitted. When I first…
Read MoreRE: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…
Read MoreMargaret Mahy Interview 2004
This is the second interview I have done with Margaret Mahy; the first was in 1994. This interview first appeared in Good Reading Magazine in October 2004. In a bedroom-cum-office in a house over-looking New Zealand’s Lyttelton Harbour lives and works children’s author Margaret Mahy. Surrounded by photographs of her children and grandchildren—My family keep…
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