In episode 205 of the Your Kid’s Next Read podcast:
10 minutes with Julia Lawrinson
Allison chats to author Julia Lawrinson about her new verse novel ‘Trapped: The Entombed Miner of Bonnie Vale’, creating suspense in the spaces between words, and paring back history to uncover the people.
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‘A Lemon for Safiya’ by Jemima Shafei-Ongu. Illustrated by Nisaluk Chantanakom
‘Wombat Dreaming’ by Caz Goodwin and Zoe Bennett
‘I Don’t Need A Little Brother’ by Nat Amoore and Nathaniel Eckstrom
‘Friday Barnes 13: In Plain Sight’ by R. A. Spratt
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Your Next Read series official media release
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10 minutes with Julia Lawrinson
About Julia Lawrinson
Julia Lawrinson is an award-winning writer of 18 books for children and young adults. She hails from Perth and, despite leaving school at 15, has a PhD in writing and a Bachelor of Laws with distinction.
Julia has worked in a range of organisations, from the arts to parliament to health. She has presented at schools, workshops and conferences across Australia, and in Singapore, Indonesia and the USA, and loves meeting her audience and encouraging reading, learning and curiosity.
Her books are about friendship, family and the occasional Jack Russell. She loves the ocean, reading, dog parks and the word serendipity.
About ‘Trapped: The Entombed Miner of Bonnie Vale’
‘when I saw water
pouring
toward me
I ran like billy-o’
In 1907, the mining town of Bonnie Vale experiences a sudden deluge of rain that floods a gold mine while miners are still at work down the shaft.
Joe’s dad is one of them. And it soon becomes clear that he’s the only one who hasn’t made it back out yet. Where is he? Why didn’t he escape with the others? And more importantly, how will they rescue him?
Inspired by the true story of the trapped miner of Bonnie Vale and told in verse, Julia Lawrinson weaves a tale that will beckon readers down into the gold mine with Joe’s dad to find out how the rescue unfolded.
Julia’s recommendations
‘Kelpie Chaos’ by Deb Fitzpatrick (First Chapters episode here)
‘Soaring With The Sugar Bird Lady’ by Dianne Wolfer (Friday First Chapters episode here)
‘Right Way Down’ (anthology), edited by Rebecca M. Newman and Sally Murphy
Our books
The Mapmaker Chronicles series by A. L. Tait
The Ateban Cipher (duology) by A. L. Tait
The Maven & Reeve Mysteries by A. L. Tait
The First Summer of Callie McGee by A. L. Tait
Willow Bright’s Secret Plot by A. L. Tait
Danger Road by A. L. Tait
The Beehive by Megan Daley
Teacher, Teacher (anthology), edited by Megan Daley
Raising Readers by Megan Daley
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