I just wanted to happily and gratefully acknowledge the CBCA Junior Judges for also nominating MBT as an Honour Book. A double honour in the CBCA is so brilliantly encouraging (I know I use these words a lot but it just so true, what else can I say?). Thank you Junior Judges, I hope your Participation Certificates look snazzy on the wall.This might be a good place to note that I am a tad disappointed...
Minggu, 26 Agustus 2007
Rabu, 22 Agustus 2007
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For those who are not familiar with Australian parlance, "Melly" is short for Melbourne, and I have returned as the title of this blog suggests.As to the CBCA Awards I am so very very pleased to declare that not only was MBT 1 short-listed, it actually managed to make it as an Honour Book - which means silver, 2nd place!Woo-stinking-hoo!Now the book will get little silver stickers on it (well here...
Senin, 20 Agustus 2007
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Jason V. from Brazil has sent me two photos of work done by Stanley of STATTOO in Minas Gerais.The first one was just three characters thrown together, but the second one was terrible:http://sp2.fotologs.net/photo/50/59/58/stattoo/1174402499_f.jpgNot only these five characters are randomly thrown together, the second one does not even exist, and fourth...
22.08
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I don't watch reality television shows, therefore I have no idea who Amber is. Apparently she is one of the house guests in Big Brother 8.HS reader & Big Brother 8 watcher Jenn G. emailed me this screen shot of Amber's tattoo,According to Jenn G., in one of the previous episodes, Amber claimed her tattoos are:FamilyStrengthHonorWisdomIf anyone...
Selasa, 14 Agustus 2007
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Here are the answers to the many questions that have collected over the last month. My publisher in the US has asked me to post more often so here is what I hope is a good start. I am actually supposed to be getting ready to go to Melbourne for the Childrens Book Council of Australia of Awards 2007, so apologies for any irregularities in this post.First...
Selasa, 07 Agustus 2007
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This person went to Charlie at Asylum Tattoo of Covington, Kentucky and got some names tattooed, assuming they are family members names. The end result is posted in BMEzine's gallery dated Aug. 4, 2007.http://bmeink.com/A70804/high/bmepb577039.jpgMy fellow katakana tattoo connoisseur Alan has this to say:As these things go, I guess this one is not...
14.07
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Reader Lynn sent me this photo of a pair men's swimming shorts from Wal-Mart. Since she is a Japanese major, it was odd to her to see hiragana characters meaning "pocket-sized book" printed on the shorts. I confirmed this with Alan, and he says:The hiragana is clearly しゅうちんぼん [shuuchinbon], which is the Japanese reading of 袖珍本, meaning a "pocket-sized...
Senin, 06 Agustus 2007
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Yes yes, technical issues are making it hard to get a fully realised blog to you as promised but the expanded issue is coming very shortly. The faithful regulars will be getting used to this stop start thing I suppose - certainly not my preferred method of blogging but I will get a handle on this as my crammed schedule allows.Just have to say I have been loving the comments: a whole lot of stuff the...
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