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Best books of 2016

Looking for a summer read or a Christmas gift? Here's your guide to the best books of 2016

Belatedly discovered this listing in Thuy On's Best Books of 2016 for Fairfax. Yay!

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So thrilled at this generous review from the exquisitely gifted writer Mchelle Cooper.

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Georgia Blain wins a posthumous Premier's award as playwright Leah Purcell takes the big one

It was a night of mixed emotions as Georgia Blain won a posthumous Victorian Premier's Literary Award and playwright Leah Purcell took out the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature.

Delighted for The Book That Made Me contributor Randa Abdel-Fattah, who has won the 2017 Victorian Premier's Literary Award prize for young adult fiction, and the People's Choice prize for When Michael Met Mina.

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Book Review: The Book That Made Me edited by Judith Ridge

“There are books that you read that make you hold your breath. It’s only when you get to the end you realise you need to come up for air.” – Randa Abdah-Fattah, The Book That Made Me SYNOPSIS…

"...a scrumptious collection..."

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In a volume originally published in Australia, Ridge asked more than 30 writers (including Ted Dawe, Ursula Dubosarsky, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Jaclyn Moriarty, Mal Peet, and Markus Zusak) to share the b

"Impassioned and intimate, these essays create an eloquent ode to the power of story." Publishers Weekly!!!!!!

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Available now in bookshops nationwide. This is an ideal book to leave around any home containing a book-lover, for idle moments while eating breakfast, while the kids are peacefully bickering about…

"This book has seen me add 20 more books that I’d never even heard of to my reading list. It expanded my understanding of the works of those authors I had read, and my awareness of those I might be interested in reading. And in a nice double-up effect, it made me aware of more brilliant books that are waiting out there for me to be transformed by."

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The Book That Made Me edited by Judith Ridge - Booknotes Unbound

Thirty two authors of children’s books have each contributed a piece about the book/s that encouraged them as children and made them want to read. Three contributors are Kiwis and the writer whose story I connect with best, is Mandy Hager writing about the book that inspired her – which was 1984. Hager summarises most …

From the New Zealand Book Council.

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IDIOM

"Ridge’s The Book That Made Me serves best as a teacher resource and guide for recommending reading for students, or for aspiring writers. As teachers, we may recognise versions of these young writers in our classrooms – young people who are desperate to find some sort of affirmation, validation or mirror to their own experiences. Books can serve as a significant contributor to identity and self-conceptualisation, and today, more than ever, young people need to read about ‘themselves’. Thus, they must feel encouraged to write about themselves, too. Inspired by The Books That Made Me, young people need not discount their own stories, like Abdel-Fattah once did, and can instead write tales of inclusion with confidence and pride."