The book that made me : a collection of 32 personal stories

9780763696719
9780763695491
0763696714
0763695491

xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes index

Shaun Tan asks, why do you read? / Shaun Tan
A feverish desire to possess / Randa Abdel-Fattah
Twelve reasons / Markus Zusak
A short leap / Cathy Cassidy
"What happens next?" / Will Kostakis
The great sense of unease / Mandy Hager
Hooked (and a bit unsettled) / Shaun Tan
Thwack! / Fiona Wood
Becoming human / Bernard Beckett
Looking where I'm standing / Felicity Castagna
This world is more than what can be seen / Ambelin Kwaymullina
What the doctor recommended / Queenie Chan
Of magic and memory / Kate Constable
The big Scooby-Doo reveal / Rachael Craw
Sweet dreams and social fails / Simmone Howell
Every disgusting detail / Benjamin Law
Challenging the machinations of racism / Jared Thomas
Invested with enchantment / Alison Croggon
It looks like a comic / Mal Peet
My first reader / Ursula Dubosarsky
In folded arms / Cath Crowley
What would Edith do? / Emily Maguire
Putting the world to rights / Catherine Mayo
Beyond the influence / Ted Dawe
A sense of resolution / Simon French
Only white people lived in books / Catherine Johnson
Set my senses alight / Sue Lawson
Happy endings / Brigid Lowry
You'll go blind: a cautionary tale about the power of reading / Julia Lawrinson
Ingenious decisions / Sue McPherson
James remembering / James Roy
Seeing red / Jaclyn Moriarty

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Abdel-Fattah, Randa. Feverish desire to possess
Beckett, Bernard, 1967- Becoming human
Cassidy, Cathy, 1962- Short leap
Castagna, Felicity. Looking where I'm standing
Hager, Mandy. Great sense of unease
Kostakis, Will. What happens next?
Kwaymullina, Ambelin, 1975- This world is more than what can be seen
Ridge, Judith, editor
Tan, Shaun. Hooked (and a bit unsettled)
Wood, Fiona (Fiona Anna). Thwack!
Zusak, Markus. Twelve reasons