What are we going to do girls?
Footnote: The ‘Inks’ usually arrive on their own but one day things were really, really hard and so they all arrived together. Sometimes we have to call on others to help us work things out.
(Clunk & Jam book, 2019).
They thought they’d made her disappear. But giving up wasn’t in her repertoire .
“She’s on the cusp, before the shell of womanly politeness, meekness, quietness hardens over her. It’s the female tragedy; that we all close over, become someone else; someone who others expect us to be. This little girl’s vividness is blazing, raw, unchecked, beautiful. The clip ends with a knowing curtsy, as if to say: “I’m so much more than what you think I am.” Words by Nikki Gemmell, Weekend Australian Magazine, about the video featuring an 11 year old dancer.
Newspaper reads….”Disaster, woe and all dysfunctions great and small.” Laughter is such good medicine. Art by Leunig
Paul Jennings, an author well known to young readers, talks about rejection; losing (and finding again) the confidence to write; fame; and boys wanting to fly. (Interview by Dumbo Feather, a magazine).
