Middle_Grade_Mavens_Podcast

Our top picks for 2021 including many #loveozmg books are live in episode 101! Head on over to anchor.fm/middlegrademav…

@Suzanne_OS So glad!!!!

@GradeMiddle Yes, totally recovered now! Thank you. 💐

I caught Covid by spending about 10 mins in the same room as an infectious person, so this 4 hr rule seems like a terrible idea to me.

@kfosterauthor This pains my soul lol you will surely fix this glitch in the matrix soon bahhh

My husband just told me something terrible...HE'S NEVER SEEN LABYRINTH. 😱😳

@elissamalespina I love this. We have a three week period in the public library I work in and they can renew twice on line or call as long as there is no further reserve. I know it's different to school obv but so many patrons are so happy for that time frame.

@kfosterauthor @THESarahDavis @kristinaschulz @DeeWhiteauthor @pamelahartbooks @DireleafeHall Oh Kate it's magnificent

So here we go... Please admire the beauty... Huge respect & gratitude to @THESarahDavis & @kristinaschulz... And to @DeeWhiteauthor, @pamelahartbooks & @DireleafeHall... I AM RIDICULOUSLY IN LOVE AND SO SO PROUD.🥰 (Please feel free to share💕)

It all feels very insignificant at the moment, but after a heartfelt chat with my husband to bring me back down to Earth (and knowing that it's going to start appearing online now anyway) I thought I'd share my cover of THE BRAVEST WORD today. No bells, no frills... #BookTwitter

@SamEllenB Our absolute pleasure, Sam

Thankyou so much Julie and @GradeMiddle for your love and support of SWW ... myself and the whole Wherewithal crew are chuffed to make the Top 10 💛💚❤

@nat_amoore @Mike_Barry @PenguinKidsAus @PenguinTeachers OMG love that cover!!!!

@MacDibble @LoveOzmg @altait Oh we didn't reveal the titles in the episode header, those are last years te he, but these sound great. Listen to find out!!!

Ooh, some great favourites on the @GradeMiddle podcast. What were your favourite #LoveOzMG titles this year? Remember😉, #MiddleGradeBooks written by an Australian author + published in 2021!

@nat_amoore Congrats Nat!

Our warmest congratulations to Fiona Hardy @fionathehardy - her middle-grade novel HOW TO WRITE THE SOUNDTRACK TO YOUR LIFE has won the Psychologists for Peace SA 2021 Children's Peace Literature Award! Three cheers for Fiona & all the shortlisted creators. #LoveOzMG

@LindsayGalvin My dad learned at 60. Persistence and a typing program. He kept at it. He has huge hands and found the keys too small but he didn’t give up. You can do it

Anyone successfully learned to touch type as an adult? Is it possible at age 45? 🙊 Tips please!

@msmisrule We love this so much, Judith. It’s why we read and recommend books on our show.

Episode 98 is a go and it’s epic…. With books by @WalkerBooksAus @UQPbooks @MacmillanAus and an interview with Andy Griffiths! #loveozmg anchor.fm/middlegrademav…

@astred @kateburge We have set the bar very low. Log on, attempt one thing if that is achieved, reasses if we can attempt another but most often we don’t

@kateburge It’s the f’ing pits! Hooley Dooley. I thought we were going okay last term but the realisation that I couldn’t freeform for 6 months if kid eventually needed to return to normal school. So doing school-set home learning and insisting hated things are completed equals bad times

Captain’s log: home learning day 1 term 4. The horror. We returned to home learning with what appeared to be Term 3’s greatest hits. Replaying all the meltdowns we knew and feared. We are knocked off course. Spinning closer to the sun. Fearful of how we will survive this term

Episode 97 is a go! And what an episode it is. With books by Karen Foxlee and Sam-Ellen Bound and two interviews to match! @AllenAndUnwin @AffirmPress #LoveOzMg anchor.fm/middlegrademav…

Episode 96 is a go. With books by @jackie_french_ @altait @tristanbancks and @JasonPamment #LoveOzMg @PenguinKidsAus @HarperKidsOz @AllenAndUnwin anchor.fm/middlegrademav…

@fionathehardy This was a balm to the soul bahhhh

Sad and angry today until I remembered the time my kid’s substitute teacher showed them a youtube video of the picture book Corduroy without watching it first

New month, new season, new books! Introducing our kids' new releases: FOLLOW YOUR FEELINGS: MAX AND WORRY and LUCY AND SAD by Kitty Black and Jess Rose, and BABIES AT THE BILLABONG by Maura Finn and Cate James. Out now: bit.ly/3jwpJ2Y.

@fionathehardy We feel your pain

Anybody else get most of their best ideas when the are the least convenient to work on?? Like I haven’t been more than five metres from a member of my family for weeks unless I am at the supermarket, but sure, I have so much peaceful space and time for writing

Oh thank god I’ve come up with another book idea so now I’m working on my Christmas Island kids book, a grown-up crime novel and a YA horror. I’ll just fit all that in easily around home learning, going to work and my important time staring into the middle distance and sighing