In episode 215 of the Your Kid’s Next Read podcast:
10 minutes with Joel McKerrow
Allison chats to Joel McKerrow about his latest middle-grade novel ‘The Remarkable Robot Robbery’ (Heist #2), balancing writing and speaking, and his number one tip for encouraging creativity in kids.
Books we mention
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Bookmail and TBR pile
‘Mr Duckins’ Chickens’ by Mick Elliott
‘The Giant’ by Sophie Masson and Lorena Carrington
‘If We Were Dogs’ by Sophie Blackall
‘We Are All Inventors’ by Kate Pankhurst
Other
Book Launch: ‘Drift’ by Pip Harry, Where the Wild Things Are (Brisbane), 17th August
Program and Details; StoryFest Out West (Longreach)
10 minutes with Joel McKerrow
About Joel McKerrow
Joel McKerrow is an award-winning writer, keynote speaker, creativity specialist, children’s author, educator and, having performed for hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world, is one of Australia’s most successful performance poets.
Joel is the artist Ambassador for the aid and development organisation TEARFUND Australia, is on teaching staff at the Melbourne Young Writers Studio and is the co-founder/host of The Deep Place: On Creativity and Spirituality podcast.
He was the third ever Australian representative at the Individual World Poetry Slam Championships in the USA, the co-founder of community arts organisation ‘The Centre for Poetics and Justice’ and the host of the Australian National Poetry Slam for the State of Victoria (2017-2019).
Joel is currently the Director of The School for Creative Development and works extensively with students, writers and creatives of all types to help them develop their creative practice
About ‘The Remarkable Robot Robbery’ (Heist #2)
After saving the world from an alien takeover in The Great Chocolate Caper, the Heist team are back in a stonking new adventure – and this time, they’re saving the aliens from the humans!
When Andy McGee and his crew make it to the finals of the National Robot Battle in Sydney, they find themselves exactly where they need to be to join the alien Resistance and do what they do best – orchestrate a daring, audacious, high-stakes heist that will go down in the history books.
Magic tricks and misdirection, with a sideshow of clever robot trickery amidst secret tunnels in Sydney’s iconic harbour, make this heist especially spectacular!
Published by Penguin Books Australia
Joel’s Recommendations
‘How to Sail to Somewhere’ by Ashleigh Barton
FFC #5: Ashleigh Barton reads ‘How To Sail To Somewhere’
‘Nevermoor’ (series) by Jessica Townsend
FFC #7: Jessica Townsend reads ‘Silverborn: The Mystery Of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor #4)
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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