Archive
Fifty Key Thinkers on History: Second Edition by Marnie Hughes-Warrington
by Beverley Kingston •
Political Tourists: : Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s–1940s edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Carolyn Rasmussen
by John Thompson •
Rivals by Bill Emmott & The New Asian Hemisphere by Kishore Mahbubani
by Nick Bisley •
Stunned Mullets and Two-pot Screamers: A dictionary of Australian colloquialisms, Fifth Edition by G.A. Wilkes
by Chris Wallace-Crabbe •
The Literacy Wars: Why teaching children to read and write is a battleground in Australia by Ilana Snyder by Ilana Snyder
by Juliette Hughes •
Nation-building, educational imperatives, old-fashioned economics: children’s books get published for a variety of reasons, none of which alone is a guarantee of quality. Ultimately, a picture book’s success or failure comes from within, the interplay of the words and pictures on the page, and children have a wonderful way of reading around the institutional pathways constructed for them by authors and publishers. Why walk next to a wall when you could run along the top?
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