tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068705397755065922.post6655946239086657341..comments2023-06-18T23:39:08.127+02:00Comments on Bibliotheque Bound: Wildlife spotted in the CBCA shortlist...lib_idolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09887547089876625807noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068705397755065922.post-83141056580166443782014-06-13T08:53:06.836+02:002014-06-13T08:53:06.836+02:00References for the above comment
Girl defective ...References for the above comment <br /> Girl defective shortlisted 2013 for an Inky Award<br />State Library of Victoria. (n.d.). Inky Awards. Short list 2013. Retrieved from Inside a Dog website: http://www.insideadog.com.au/inkys/2013-shortlist<br />But did not receive any recognition from CBCA<br />Children’s Book Council of Australia. (n.d.). Older reader notable books 2013. Retrieved from http://cbca.org.au/default.aspx?contentID=523<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08106090329138863063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068705397755065922.post-87419826196551455812014-06-08T13:16:27.949+02:002014-06-08T13:16:27.949+02:00Hi Andrew, I enjoyed Girl Defective, interesting c...Hi Andrew, I enjoyed Girl Defective, interesting characters and a tough realistic read! Seems the youth liked it better than the judges, as it is on the Inky Shortlist by not awarded by CBCA.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08106090329138863063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068705397755065922.post-67256556536876644052014-06-02T07:25:03.048+02:002014-06-02T07:25:03.048+02:00Hi Andrew,
That looks really interesting, a great ...Hi Andrew,<br />That looks really interesting, a great help in understanding fantasy archetypes!<br /> I really enjoyed Wildlife. Wood seems excellent with dialogue, her experience as a television script writer shows. I love the gap between what the characters say and their thoughts. Interesting to compare Wildlife with Lord of the Flies (Golding, 1954), which is referred to in Wildlife (p.317).Unlike ‘Flies’ the camp is an ‘artificial’ wilderness, the teachers’ authority is constantly felt in the background, but they don’t play much role in the story. The story is certainly more optimistic than ‘Flies’ but I found the end somehow an anticlimax.<br />Golding, W.(1999). Lord of the Flies. Melbourne: Penguin.<br />Wood, F.(2013). Wildlife. Sydney: Pan Macmillan.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08106090329138863063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068705397755065922.post-67304389985954940922014-06-01T15:40:20.860+02:002014-06-01T15:40:20.860+02:00Andrew, I also like to keep my eye on awards, incl...Andrew, I also like to keep my eye on awards, including the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Awards to make sure I am not missing new titles worth considering for the Library collection. Book awards and shortlists are a good guide to notable books for children and young people and the CBCA plays an important role in connecting the community with literature for children, highlighting books of literary merit and endorsing authors whose work contributes to Australian children's literature (CBCA, 2014). Public libraries and school libraries are guided by awards and shortlists when adding to their collections. Books recognised by the awards, if part of a series, can mean the whole series will be collected to meet the recreational reading needs of their borrowers. I reviewed book 6 of the Violet Mackerel series, having been alerted to the books by the short listing of book 5 in the series by the CBCA.<br />Andrew, my favourites in the 2014 Children's Book Council of Australia shortlist include Violet Mackerel's Possible Friend by Anna Branford, Libby Gleeson's Banjo and Ruby Red, and Silver Buttons by Bob Graham. Other awards worth considering for guidance in purchases for collections are the Kid's Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALA) and the Inky Awards which recognise high quality young adult literature. Curiosity Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15638526733313031266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068705397755065922.post-19402745317502556782014-06-01T14:40:39.989+02:002014-06-01T14:40:39.989+02:00Yes, the symbolism of venturing into the unknown i...Yes, the symbolism of venturing into the unknown is one that's explored in depth quite famously by Bruno Bettelheim in his seminal work "The Uses of Enchantment", where he explores fairy tales through the lens of Freudian psychoanalysis.<br /><br />lib_idolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09887547089876625807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068705397755065922.post-52048440127027350022014-06-01T11:07:40.477+02:002014-06-01T11:07:40.477+02:00In addition to the PM's literary award, I'...In addition to the PM's literary award, I'd also mention the Victorian and NSW Premier's literary awards, the Western Australia Premier's Book Awards, and the Queensland Literary Awards. If a title makes most of those lists, you know it's probably a good one!<br /><br />References:<br /><br />NSW Premier's literary awards. Retrieved from http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about/awards/premiers_awards/index.html<br /><br />Queensland Literary Awards. Retrieved from http://www.queenslandliteraryawards.com<br /><br />Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Retrieved from http://wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2014<br /><br />Western Australian Premier's Book Awards. Retrieved from http://pba.slwa.wa.gov.aulib_idolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09887547089876625807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068705397755065922.post-75592941509611905472014-06-01T08:58:44.638+02:002014-06-01T08:58:44.638+02:00Hi Andrew,
I think you provided a really useful ti...Hi Andrew,<br />I think you provided a really useful tip in your post: I hope to use the CBCA award shortlists to make sure I have kept up-to-date with the latest (and supposedly best) new children’s and youth fiction. I also wonder in the children’s/youth book awards of Australia what place the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards hope to occupy. I feel like the CBCA has a foothold in the ‘literary merit’ of Australian writers and that the state-based children’s awards, Inky Awards and Teens Top Ten (as mentioned by Elli) have the ‘teens/kid’s choice’, leaving the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards as…. I really don’t know! As to other awards, I do subscribe to Goodread's youth fiction updates and most popular lists and their yearly awards.<br /><br />Children’s Book Council of Australia – The CBCA Awards FAQ http://cbca.org.au/awardsfaq.htm <br /><br />PM’s Literary Awards. Retrieved from http://arts.gov.au/topics/pms-literary-awards<br />Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07615383718166895898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068705397755065922.post-56175545170687052852014-05-24T12:47:35.347+02:002014-05-24T12:47:35.347+02:00My links to Teens Top Ten and Inky Awards, got scr...My links to Teens Top Ten and Inky Awards, got scrubbed off when I posted, so here they are as references.<br /><br />References<br />American Library Association (2012). ALA News. YALSA announces the new Teens Top Ten groups. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2012/11/yalsa-announces-new-teens-top-ten-groups<br /><br />State Library of Victoria., (n.d.). Guidelines, Inky awards. Retrieved from Inside a Dog. website: http://www.insideadog.com.au/page/guidelines<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08106090329138863063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068705397755065922.post-591975958984152322014-05-24T12:14:07.249+02:002014-05-24T12:14:07.249+02:00Hi Andrew, I was very interested in the way you id...Hi Andrew, I was very interested in the way you identify a motif/archetype of “Into the Woods” in Wildlife. As you say, so many fairy tales use this motif of ‘venturing into the woods’. Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, Wind in the Willows and of course the forbidden forest in Harry Potter, spring to mind. It’s interesting that this book uses this motif in the context of realistic fiction and a school story. It seems a really good idea to write about school camps in this way, because camps for middle school students seem to be more and more common, and this book can help students approach them positively. This is a book I would like to get my hands on!<br />Regarding readers’ choice book awards, what do you think of Teens Top Ten (TTT)? I like the fact that the nomination list is composed by teenagers themselves, from the teen advisory groups, whereas it seems the Inky awards involve a much smaller group of teens to arrive at their nominations. I think that the idea of groups of teenagers from around the country is a great way of getting the teens involved with the library.<br />Cheers, Elli Klajn.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08106090329138863063noreply@blogger.com