Jan Ormerod's Books
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Mama's DaySomewhere there's a mama lifting baby from a crib, Snapping rompers, looping laces, Brushing crumbs from baby's bib. With its simple rhyming...Read More -
Goodbye MousieOne morning a boy finds that his pet, Mousie, won't wake up. The truth is Mousie has died. At first the boy doesn't believe it. He gets very mad at...Read More
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I Am NOT Going to School Today!"I closed my eyes and held on tight to Hank. That's when I decided that going to the very first day of school was NOT a good idea." When a child gets...Read More
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The Scotsman, December 19, 2011
...is probably the most fun. There is more high-energy action in The Animal Bop Won’t Stop by Jan Ormerod and Lindsey Gardiner (Oxford University Press, £7.99), which includes a CD of the kind of music most appreciated by jolly jellyfish, mischievous...
West Australian, August 23, 2011
...Readers Book of the Year: Isobelle Carmody for The Red Wind (Viking) Early Childhood Book of the Year: Jan Ormerod and Freya Blackwood for Maudie and Bear (Little Hare Books) Picture Book of the Year (joint winners): Jeannie Baker for Mirror (Walker...
West Australian, August 23, 2011
...Readers Book of the Year: Isobelle Carmody for The Red Wind (Viking)Early Childhood Book of the Year: Jan Ormerod and Freya Blackwood for Maudie and Bear (Little Hare Books)Picture Book of the Year (joint winners): Jeannie Baker for Mirror (Walker Books)...
WA Today, August 19, 2011
...Holocaust series and shortlisted for the Prime Minister's award. Early readers The super-sweet Maudie and Bear by Jan Ormerod, with illustrations by the always-impressive Freya Blackwood, won this category. The picture book is broken up into short...
Adelaide Now, August 19, 2011
...Illustrator Freya Blackwood, accepting the prize for the early childhood category for Maudie and Bear, with text by Jan Ormerod, said the characters had become part of her life. "Sending them off out into the world, I felt a sense of loss," Ms Blackwood...
Adelaide Now, August 19, 2011
...Illustrator Freya Blackwood, accepting the prize for the early childhood category for Maudie and Bear, with text by Jan Ormerod, said the characters had become part of her life. "Sending them off out into the world, I felt a sense of loss," Ms Blackwood...
Bookseller Publisher, August 19, 2011
...Violet Mackerel's Brillant Plot (Anna Branford & Sarah Davis, Walker Books). Early Childhood Winner: Maudie and Bear (Jan Ormerod & Freya Blackwood, Little Hare). Honour books: The Tall Man and the Twelve Babies (Tom Niland Champion, Kilmeny Niland &...
Publishing Perspectives, October 13, 2011
...s young adult novel The Midnight Zoo (Penguin), Isabelle Carmody’s junior novel The Red Wind (Penguin) and Jan Ormerod and Freya Blackwood’s early childhood book Maudie and the Bear (Little Hare). The Picture Book of the Year Award this year was...
Playing by the book, September 27, 2011
...instruments if children prefer to play them or have mobility issues. Additional Books: Doing the Animal Bop by Jan Ormerod, Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boynton Session 4 Book: A house is a house for me by Mary Ann Hoberman and Betty Fraser (which I...
my thoughts exactly, September 13, 2011
...children every time.3. I am NOT Going to School Today by Robie H. Harris and illustrated by Jan Ormerod -- Though the parent in me has to question the never-budging calm that the little boy's parents display in this story, the teacher in me appreciates...
Kinna Reads, July 21, 2011
...I haven't done one of these in a while so I'm going to jump right in. -----------NoViolet Bulawayo (of Zimbabwe) has won the (2011) 12th Caine Prize for African Writing with her short story, "Hitting Budapest". Also shortlisted for the prize...
A Fuse #8 Production, July 12, 2011
...winners were Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley (Young Adult) and Shake a Leg by Monty Boori Pryor and Jan Ormerod (Children’s). Thanks to Judith Ridge for the info. Over at Sailor Twain , Mark Siegel praises William Stieg, Barbara McClintock, and...
Beattie's Book Blog - unofficial ho, July 8, 2011
...Crowley for Graffiti Moon and the children's fiction award went to author Boori Monty Pryor and illustrator Jan Ormerod for their picture book Shake a Leg. Stephen Daisley's debut novel, Traitor, is a story of war and love, and how each changes...
Beattie's Book Blog - unofficial ho, May 26, 2011
...Now, Morris Gleitzman * April Underhill, Tooth Fairy, Bob Graham * Shake a Leg, Boori Monty Pryor and Jan Ormerod More information about the shortlists is available from www.arts.gov.au/pmliteraryawards/shortlist s...
