I’m in Melbourne now, grew up in Bega and we had speech night in the town hall. Talking to people in Adelaide who also have Speech Night and and American who’s never heard of it

Exactly, and I think sometimes it happened in the evening, so it was called ‘Speech night’ but perhaps in your case it was during the day?

Oooh, because we weren’t staying up late?

Question.
Do you know what Speech Night is? And where are you from?

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Each book has a neat printed slip detailing which school it belongs to. I found the one from my kid - plus 7 more from our school - and returned them all to today.

I love libraries and librarians.

I accidentally returned my kid’s school library book to the local library back in September. Realised 3 months later and went in to the local on the unlikely chance that they still had it. Friends, of course they had it. In fact they had a tidy box of books from several local schools.

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A piece of paper pegged on a string, written on with child’s handwriting: 1: Pop corn 2: chips 3: apple juice 4: cooky and cream

I’ve been working with a crew of year 4 kids to create a collaborative graphic novel. We’re up to a Very Important part of the process: planning the book launch snacks.

I’m a children’s writer – and celebrity children’s books undervalue my craft Celebrity children’s books are a recurring phenomenon – from Jamie Oliver and Keira Knightley to Meghan Markle and Jimmy Barnes. But writing for children is harder than it might look.

I like Penni and I think there are a lot of EXCELLENT children’s authors in this article.

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An adorable perplexed looking Minotaur drawn by a child with the text ‘a minotaur is a bigger bull that can stand’ and a leaf stuck next to it.

Sometimes my job is making books with kids. This adorably perplexed Minotaur makes me so dang happy. I feel like it’s kinda happy but also about to burst into tears

Sammy J to the rescue as Museums Victoria loses items from flooded storage facility ABC Melbourne presenter Sammy J stumbled across museum artefacts flowing down the gutter of a street in the city's inner north after a burst water main flooded a storage facility.

If this were the plot of a middle grade children’s novel people would call it unbelievable. Finding fossils in vials rolling down the street on your evening out. Ridiculous

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