Back in 2003 AFL player Sam Mitchell came to the State Libray of Victoria to talk to about reading. Sam spoke about the difference reading made to him as a player and a person. Back then Sam was new on the Hawks list. He didn’t get selected in the draft: too small, too slow, couldn’t kick far enough. He did it the hard way.
Sam Mitchell, Hawthorn captain
Five years on, Sam Mitchell is Hawthorn captain and one of the AFL’s elite players. And reading? He’s still at it. You can find out more about Sam Mitchell in this profile published in the The Age today.
Did you know that the Ranger’s Apprentice series has now sold over 1 million copies worldwide? Erak’s Ransom, the seventh in the series has just been released in Australia.
Author John Flanagan, who lives in Sydney, recently toured in the United States (where they are only up to book 3, The Icebound Land). He appeared on Good Morning America. You can watch the interview by clicking in this link:
Erak’s Ransom was also announced as the winner of the Australian Bookseller’s Association Book of the Year for Older Readers. And there’s a movie in the works.
You can sign up for the Ranger’s Apprentice newsletter. Visit the website by clicking on this link.
News has reached the Boys, Blokes, Books blog of new weekly comic. Each issue has twelve stories, including one written by Philip Pullman of the His Dark Materials fame. The comic is DFC and is published in England. But you can’t buy DFC in newsagents or bookshops. Even if you live right in the middle of London, even if you live next door to Buckingham Palace, even if you live on Charing Cross Road which is famous for its bookshops, you still can’t walk in to a shop and buy DFC.
(image from John Blake) DFC is available by subscription only. So it doesn’t really matter that you don’t live next door to Buckingham Palace. (Anyway, the royal corgis might keep you awake at night.) The postage to Australia is about an extra $2.20 per issue. Check out the DFC website…you will find a free comic creator to download, plus tips from the pro’s and loads more.
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