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Interview by The Booktopia Podcast
…”Illustration comes first or you write the story first? or you do a bit of both?”… Click on the image below to hear the interview by The Booktopia Podcast on Soundcloud. The Booktopia Podcast on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/booktopiapodcast
Unmasking The Wild
A unique collection of masks created by 22 of Australia’s incredibly talented children’s book illustrators and artists. The collection was unveiled at The Masked Ball that celebrated the completion of the the final book in the Obernewtyn series, The Red Queen and is currently on display at the Geelong Library and Heritage Centre until July 3rd. Unmasking the Wild – The Auction. more information on Isobelle’s project, the illustrators...
Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean
Eat the Sky Drink the Ocean is a new anthology featuring a graphic story by Isobelle. It is a collection of sci-fi and fantasy writing, including six graphic stories, showcasing twenty stellar writers and artists from India and Australia. It is published in Australia by Allen & Unwin and will be available February 2015.
Movie Deal for Greylands
Isobelle’s novel Greylands is being made into a film! Greylands is the haunting and exquisitely rendered story of Jack and his little sister, Ellen, as they struggle to cope with their father’s despair in the bleak time after their mother’s death. One night Jack enters the greylands – a world where there is no colour, no noise, no laughter – a place that only the wounded can enter. Isobelle...
Greylands Relaunch
Isobelle Carmody relaunched Greylands with Maureen McCarthy’s novel, The Convent. This video recorded their conversation. It is published by Dark Matter Fanzine.
Reprint: Journey From the Centre of the Earth
This wonderful children’s book was written by Isobelle and illustrated by Marc McBride. This latest edition has been bought by Hachette publisher under their Children’s Books section. The short of this story: “Two friends tell each other a story Have you heard about the duck at the centre of the earth? Left there by a human expedition, the duck must make his own way to the surface. All it wants...
Guest Residence for March
Insideadog is a website which encourages young people to read and write, run by the State Library of Victoria. They feature month long residences of Australian children’s writers. Isobelle is their author in residence for March. Many of us know her from stories in the newspapers, radio and print interviews and talks, but the insideablog gives you a closer look at her life and the blogs are full of...
Book of the Year 2011 Winner
April 2011, The Children’s Book Council of Australia shortlist announced. The Red Wind has been shortlisted in the Younger Readers category. August 19th 2011, The Red Wind is the winner of the Younger Readers category.
Bookwise: May 2011
So books- I have recently finished Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson. It is a really lovely and unexpected book. Major Ernest Pettigrew is content to lead a quiet life in the sleepy village of Edgecombe St Mary, away from the meddling of the locals and his overbearing son. But when his brother dies, he finds himself seeking companionship with the widowed village shopkeeper, Mrs Ali.