This week’s Website of the Week is Scale of the Universe 2. This interactive site allows you to zoom in and out of hundreds of brilliant graphics comparing the sizes of everything in the universe! Now I really feel small.
Adelaide Author D.M. Cornish’s Cabra Visit
On Wednesday 23rd May as part of National Year of Reading acclaimed Adelaide author and illustrator D.M. Cornish visited Cabra College. He addressed several hundred students from Years 6-10 during two brilliantly informative talks in the newly opened St. Dominic’s Hall.
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Accompanying his account of how he got started as a writer with dozens of his own intricately drawn illustrations, Mr Cornish held the pupils captivated. Each session concluded with a detailed and at times humourous question and answer session. The author signed copies of his Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy during Recess, posing for photos with excited students. After an invitation-only lunch with lucky pupils Mr Cornish led a unique writing workshop with a Year 10 Extension English class. Students left this session buzzing with ideas for stories, novels and worlds of their own to build. D.M Cornish is the author of the well received fantasy series, Monster Blood Tattoo originally published by Omnibus Books here in Adelaide.
Author D.M. Cornish at Cabra
Adelaide author and illustrator D.M. Cornish is at Cabra College tomorrow for a series of talks, book signings and a writing workshop. Cornish is the author of the well received fantasy series, Monster Blood Tattoo originally published by Omnibus Books here in Adelaide.
If you’d like a signed copy of any or all of his three books bring $15 per book to the Book Room. Mr Cornish will be signing his books from 10.30am in the foyer of the new St. Dominic’s Hall.
Click on the links below for a wealth of Monster Blood Tattoo and Half Continent info and resources.
Official Monster Blood Tattoo Site (ANZ),
Author’s Monster Blood Tattoo Blog
Intricate Map of the Half Continent
Lands of the Half Continent Fan Forum
Fan site run through Facebook
Author D.M. Cornish to Visit Cabra
As part of National Year of Reading acclaimed Adelaide author and illustrator D.M. Cornish will visit Cabra College on Wednesday 23rd May for a series of talks, book signings and a writing workshop. Cornish is the author of the well received fantasy series, Monster Blood Tattoo originally published by Omnibus Books here in Adelaide.
The author had been working as an illustrator for Omnibus before his detailed illustrated notebooks were discovered by the publisher Dyan Blacklock. His elaborately detailed world of The Half Continent takes readers on a journey into realms of monsters versus humans, bringing to mind the best work of Tolkien and Mervyn Peake‘s Gormenghast Trilogy .
The film rights to his Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy have been bought by the Jim Henson Company and so we may yet see a big screen version of Rossamund’s tale emerge.
Click on the links below for a wealth of Monster Blood Tattoo and Half Continent info and resources.
Official Monster Blood Tattoo Site (ANZ),
Author’s Monster Blood Tattoo Blog
Intricate Map of the Half Continent
Lands of the Half Continent Fan Forum
Fan site run through Facebook
D.M. Cornish will visit Cabra College on Wednesday 23rd May for a series of talks and a writing workshop. Signed copies of his books will be available for purchase. Please see Mr Bull in the Senior Library or Miss SB in the Middle School Library for details.
Website of the Week: The Modern Word
THE MODERN WORD, the Web’s largest site devoted to exploring twentieth-century experimental literature! A sprawling portal of information on some of the world’s most influential and often impenetrable writers. For the main body of the site visit The Libyrinth. For related authors and listings in progress check out The Scriptorium. All sections of The Modern Word feature “writers who have pushed the edges of their medium, combining literary talent with a sense of experimentation to produce some remarkable works of modern literature.”
Main authors covered include Samuel Beckett, Jose Louis Borges, Umberto Eco, Gabriel García Márquez, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, and Thomas Pynchon.
The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award Winner Announced
The 2012 winner of Australia’s richest prize for an unpublished manuscript, The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award has just been announced. Paul D. Carter, a high school teacher fought off over 300 other manuscripts from the long list to secure this prestigious award for his first novel Eleven Seasons . The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award helped launch the writing careers of Tim Winton, Kate Grenville, Gillian Mears and Andrew McGahan amongst others. Elelven Seasons is a coming of age story which explores the culture of Aussie Rules Football. Paul D. Carter is currently working on his follow-up novel.
Click to here the author talk about and reads from his novel
Website of the Week: Open Culture
Bring and Buy Book Sale Wednesday 16 May
As part of our National Year of Reading Celebrations, we are holding a monster Bring and Buy Book Sale on Wednesday 16 May. We are asking all students and staff to have a clear out at home and bring in any unwanted books, CDS and DVDs for the sale. These donations will be added to surplus library stock and go on sale on Wednesday 16 May in the Senior Library at Recess and Lunchtime. Books from $1. All proceeds to be shared between the libraries and our nominated Cabra charities. Donations can be delivered to the Middle School and Senior School libraries.
Website of the Week: Book Trailers For Readers
If you frequent book and reading related websites you’ll probably be familiar with book trailers. For the uninitiated book trailers are short films or video clips designed to promote and encourage people to read a particular book, in much the same way that film trailers are used to promote forthcoming films. Check out this excellent site with loads of info and examples of book trailers and a superb ‘how to’ guide on making your own. The next time you have a book talk or book report to do ask your teacher if you can use a book trailer to submit your work. For more great examples of Book Trailers and how to make them visit our Book Trailer Page.
Adelaide Writer’s Week Report Part 3 (of 3). D.M. Cornish
On Friday 2 March Mrs Cross’s Year 10 English class joined her and the Librarian Mr Bull for an excursion to the first Adelaide Writer’s Festival Schools Day. Students were treated to three very different sessions. The third entitled, “Constructing a Character” featured Adelaide author and illustrator D.M. Cornish. Students and teachers alike were treated to an excellent question and answer session between author/illustrator David Cornish and his Adelaide publisher Dyan Blacklock from Omnibus Books. She told the story of how Cornish went from jobbing illustrator with Omnibus to their most high profile writer in a very short space of time. The film rights to his Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy have been bought by the Jim Henson Company and so his star seems to rise ever higher. During the session David spoke of how he came to creat his ficitional world, The Half Continent over more than eleven years through dozens of unpublished notebooks.
He freely admits his books’ debts to both Tolkien and Gormenghast Trilogy author Mervyn Peake. Make no mistake however Monster Blood Tattoo is no parody or pastiche, but an intricately imagined and richly drawn world with a compelling storyline. Fans were delighted to hear that Mr Cornish is well into a fourth book in the series told it seems from a much different perspective.
D.M. Cornish will visit Cabra College on Wednesday 23rd May for a series of talks and a writing workshop. Signed copies of his books will be available for purchase.
