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Tag Archives: Rodney Loses It!
2025-14: Booky-Type things.
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged and a few booky-type things have happened. Firstly I received the lovely news that JUST A DOG will be reprinted in January 2026 with a slightly updated cover. Really pleased about that. Thank … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambrose-Treacy, books, CBCA, CBCA 80th Birthday Celebrations, CBCA Qld Branch, Don't Call Me Ishmael, Ishmael and the Hoops of Steel, Ishmael and the Return of the Dugongs, Just a Dog, Lourdes Hill, Megan Daley, Raising Readers, Reading, Robbit the Job-hopping Frog, Rodney Loses It!, Scholastic Australia, St Peters Lutheran, The Beehive
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2024 Week 30: You’ve got (more) mail.
I mentioned in a recent post that I’d had surprising emails from a German school in Mexico and a French school in Vanuatu. In both cases their students were reading Don’t Call Me Ishmael. Since then I’ve had more writing … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Don't Call Me Ishmael, education, International Youth Library, Internationale Jugendbibliothek, Ishmael and the Return of the Dugongs, Max Fatchen, Reading, Rodney Forgets It!, Rodney Loses It!, teaching, The Running Man, White Ravens Festival, Writing
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2024 Week 16: Where do I begin …
One of the most common questions writers get asked is ‘Where do you get your story ideas from?’ The truth is, they can come from anywhere. And for me at least, they’re often quite small things that grow and evolve … Continue reading

















