Reading Matters

#CorneliaFunke - Leah and Miani welcome guest host Catriona for a Sydney Writers Festival special and the team speak with Cornelia Funke about her numerous bestselling titles including the Inkheart series. http://www.corneliafunke.com/ Cornelia Funke Biography The German author, Cornelia Funke was born 1958 in Dorsten, in the German region of Westphalia. Following university, she worked for three...

#AdamWallace - The team chat with best-selling children's author Adam Wallace, who has written over twenty five children's books (and counting), and has sold over half a million, about his book 'The Vanilla Slice Kid'. http://www.adam-wallace-books.com/index3newnew.htm If you love our podcasts then you can support SBN's Youth Charity and several important youth initiatives by purchasing your copy...

The team chat with Jennifer Bradley, author of 'The Girl With Wings'. Girl with Wings is the story of Jessica Mackay, who lives on the family farm at Narromine, near Dubbo. The year is 1929, and her father, who was wounded during the famous charge of the Light Horse at Beersheba, thinks that his nine-year-old daughter has a perfectly sensible ambition. Slightly to her surprise, he takes her seriou...

#KellyAlsop - Author Kelly Alsop wrote Run Tree Run to bring public awareness to the serious environmental impact issues of the proposed bauxite mine near the Steve Irwin Reserve on the Cape York Peninsula. In this Podcast, Kelly talks about her books, the effects of mining and her aims as an author. If you love our podcasts then you can support SBN's Youth Charity and several important youth init...

#NatGeoKids - Felix, Kaylee and Miani speak with Joan-Maree Hargreaves, the editor for National Geographic KiDS Australia & New Zealand. http://ngkids.co.nz/# If you love our podcasts then you can support SBN's Youth Charity and several important youth initiatives by purchasing your copy of our fabulous debut Music Matters International Artists Charity Album - we'd really appreciate your support,...

#SogniaVassello - Sognia Vassello is a mother and a step mother to four teenagers. She has written and self published five rhyming picture books in the Busy Bugs series and has also put together some of her thoughts and photographs on nature in a book called Perpetual motions, available on Blurb.com. If you love our podcasts then you can support SBN's Youth Charity and several important youth init...

#SimonJamesHouse - Simon is the creator and author of Andee the Aquanaut, an award-winning, thrilling adventure for kids aged 6 to 12, into the depths of the Great Seas! http://www.andeetheaquanaut.co.uk/ If you love our podcasts then you can support SBN's Youth Charity and several important youth initiatives by purchasing your copy of our fabulous debut Music Matters International Artists Charity...

#LongyHan - Lawyer by day, children’s book writer by night, Longzhen Han is naturally curious and mildly adventurous. She has travelled independently across 7 continents, over 30 countries and 90 cities mostly on a shoestring budget. The team chat with Longy about her book Gusto and Gecko. If you love our podcasts then you can support SBN's Youth Charity and several important youth initiatives by...

#ClareAtkins - Kaylee, Leah & Miani chat with the author of 'Nona and Me', Clare Atkins. Clare is also a television scriptwriter and she has written for many successful Australian television dramas, including Wonderland, Winners & Losers, All Saints and Home & Away. Her debut novel, Nona and Me, was an Honour Book for the CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers 2015 and was long-listed for the Gol...

#TristanBancks - Kaylee, Shehan and Leah chat with bestselling author of ‘My Life and Other Mistakes’ Tristan Bancks. Tristan is also a filmmaker and television presenter with a background as an actor, including a 2 year stint on the oh-so-popular Aussie classic, Home and Away! Tristan strives to tell inspiring, fast-moving stories for young people and he has written a number of books for kids and...

#CBCAawards - Kaylee, Leah and Shehan talk with the chair of the Children’s Book Council Australia, Professor Margot Hillel, about the CBCA and the 70th Anniversary Book of the Year Awards. Professor Hillel has been involved in children’s literature over many years and also holds the position of Chair of the Academic Board at Australian Catholic University. Her main research interests are in the a...

#LibbyGleeson - Kaylee, Leah and Shehan chat with bestselling author Libby Gleeson who has published over 30 highly acclaimed books for children and teenagers, been shortlisted for 13 CBCA Awards, and won three! Libby has been a teacher and lecturer and chaired the Australian Society of Authors from 1999-2001. In 2007 Libby was awarded membership to the Order of Australia and she was also the reci...

#JudithRossell - Leah, Kaylee and Shehan chat with award winning author and illustrator Judith Rossell about her novel, Withering-by-Sea, which is set in Victorian England, where Stella Montgomery lives with her three dreadful Aunts at the Hotel Majestic. One day, she sees something she shouldn't have, and is plunged into an adventure. Can she overcome the sinister magician and his gang of thugs,...

#JackieFrench - Leah, Miani and Shehan speak with 2014/15 Australian Children's Laureate and 2015 Senior Australian of the Year, Jackie French about 'Read the World a Story' day and other projects. Jackie reads a snippet from 'Diary from a Wombat' with full sound effects and the team even converse with Jackie in Wobatese! http://www.jackiefrench.com/ http://www.childrenslaureate.org.au/ If you lov...