Book Review: Kids Ask About Bears by Christopher Nicholas
Have you ever wondered how the grizzly bear, sloth bear, and sun bear got their names? Or what bear is hardly bigger than a dog? Or which bear can eat a whale? Explore this exciting book for answers to questions you’ll…
Keep readingSwallows Dance, by Wendy Orr
From the back cover: ‘Leira is starting her initiation as a priestess when her world is turned upside down. A violent earthquake leaves her home in pieces. And the goddess hasn’t finished with the island yet.’ 1625 BCE (Before Common Era),…
Keep readingImportance of Teddy Bear
Most kids or children like a teddy bear as a toy or friend during childhood. The Teddy bear is one of the soft toys which looks like a bear or baby bear. Presently, parents also prefer to buy a teddy bear…
Keep readingUnEarthly, by Rebecca Bloomer: Unwilling heroines of Mars
‘This is Mars, noob. Science is our god and we’re masters of the universe.” Eighteen months after Jodi Scarfield, former hacker into the ruthless Earth government’s programs, and close friend Astrid Forbes, Mars colony brianiac, battled to prevent sabotage to the…
Keep readingUnEarthed, by Rebecca Bloomer: an adventure on Mars
‘No one can predict the future, Jodi Scarfield .The universe is possessed of infinite possibility and you’re exploring just one.’ But Jodi is whisked away from hacking into the Earth government security systems to another world entirely by her mother who,…
Keep readingWhere to find Me, Mawson, on Mastodon
Mawson Bear (@mawsonbear@mastodon.au) Soul searching Writer-Bear. Little books with lots of heart for all ages. Published by Odyssey Books. Home is #Perth Australia. #plushies #joy #picturebooks #kindness #slowdown https://mastodon.au/@mawsonbear
Keep readingShort List Excitement
From The Waste Land: three Waste Land stories make the Aurealis cut This week, the savvy judges of the Aurealis Awards (Australia’s premier speculative fiction awards) announced their short lists in the various categories for 2022 publications: https://aurealisawards.org/2023/03/09/2022-aurealis-awards-shortlist-announcement/ And I’m deeply…
Keep readingA Duo of Julia Stebbin Children’s Books
My apologies to Julia Stebbing for keeping her waiting so long for reviews of two of her children’s books whilst life has been quite challenging, and my enormous thanks to Julia for sending me When Moggie and Froggie Met Doggie illustrated…
Keep readingRebecca: Misrepresented Romance
During last month’s obsession with Bluebeard, I discovered Bronte’s Jane Eyre and du Maurier’s Rebecca are considered ‘romanticised’ Bluebeard tales. I love Bluebeard (particularly Anglea Carter’s retelling, the Bloody Chamber) because it calls out violence (both within and external to us)…
Keep readingMawson is all over the Bear Wide Web – except Twitter
Dear Friends. You can find Me, Mark, the Guardian, and Mawson (the furrier one) all over this bright world including, of course, right here at WordPress. Mawson’s own Web Den on WordPress called http://www.mawsonbear.wordpress.com . Our publisher is Odyssey Books, where…
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I’m Mark, Guardian of Mawson the Writer-Bear (See more on Page called Guardian). Mawson and I loll about on cushions in Perth, Western Australia. We have made 3 books (I had to help a lot) and also done the illustrations for another book called When A Brave Bears Fights Cancer by Carola Schmidt
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