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A GLASSHOUSE OF STARS

is the winner of the CBCA Book of the Year: Younger Readers 2022! Congratulations to all the other winners and Honour books across all the categories and thank you so much to the CBCA and esteemed judges. What an absolute honour. It is also the Winner of The WA Premier’s Book Awards – Writing for Children 2021 and shortlisted for both the Queensland Literary Awards 2022 – Children’s Book Award and the Readings Children’s Fiction Prize 2022!

NEW! All Four Quarters of the Moon

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A Glasshouse of Stars

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Little Jiang

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Preloved

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Praise for A Glasshouse of Stars

Heart-twisting and hopeful, bursting with big feelings and gentle magic. This is a special book from a powerful, compassionate new voice in children’s literature.

JESSICA TOWNSEND, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE NEVERMOOR SERIES

Poignant and beautifully told. I loved this book

MELINA MARCHETTA, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI

A Glasshouse of Stars is a rare and beautiful masterpiece; deeply heartfelt, dreamily magical, and glitteringly hopeful. I adored it!

SOPHIE ANDERSON, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE HOUSE WITH CHICKEN LEGS

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About the Author

Shirley Marr is an award winning children's author and a first generation Chinese-Australian living in sunny Perth. A Glasshouse of Stars, based on her experiences of being childhood migrant was the Children Book Council of Australia's (CBCA) Book of the Year for Younger Readers in 2022. Shirley's latest title is All Four Quarters of the Moon and is a celebration of sisterhood and Chinese culture. Her earlier titles are Fury, Preloved and Little … Read More about About the Author

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When I wrote #AGlasshouseOfStars I never envisione When I wrote #AGlasshouseOfStars I never envisioned it to be a bestseller, but as a book that those who needed it would find it and be comforted by it. So I am very surprised to see it on @readingsbooks list! Thank you to all the booksellers of Readings who championed my book, I am so grateful 🙏💚🪴
💜💜Happy Book Birthday to Aussie STEM Stars: 💜💜Happy Book Birthday to Aussie STEM Stars: Suzy Urbaniak: Volcano hunter and STEAM warrior, out this month!🥳💜💜 I had the pleasure of beta reading this inspirational and uplifting book and I am so proud of my beautiful and talented friend @cristyburne, whose full glorious catalogue isn’t even in my photo (they’ll be out on loan to someone in the world somewhere! “Have you read Cristy Burne? Well you should”) Here’s a celebration to Suzy, sisterhood and shenanigans💜💜 *cue slideshow*

From the publisher’s website:

“Many people tend to follow the crowd, but never ask ‘Why?’ Suzy Urbaniak taught me so many things. This new way of thinking changed how I view the world." 
—Year 6 CoRE Student, 2022

Geologist Suzy Urbaniak is a limbo dancer, a crepe-baker, a risk-taker and a question asker. Winner of the 2016 Prime Minister’s Prize for her out-of-the-box teaching, Suzy is all about passion, innovation, and doing things your own way.

Because life is what’s out there, in #therealclassroom”
Thank you @book_tokens for choosing #AllFourQuarte Thank you @book_tokens for choosing #AllFourQuartersOfTheMoon as one of 23 books to read in 2023! 🧧🌝🥮🐰
Link in my bio so you can check out the other fabulous selections too 💛 Happy reading for this year! 💛🌟
Creative Crawl! ✍️👩🏻‍💻 Thanks to @l Creative Crawl! ✍️👩🏻‍💻
Thanks to
@levelninecowork 
@hearthperth 
@communityatquay
A very productive and happy day! 🌟Thanks to everyone who came up so say hello and have a conversation about life, books and art🌟
Thank you to @the.kids.books.curator for this very Thank you to @the.kids.books.curator for this very thoughtful, in-depth and feminist look at #AllFourQuartersOfTheMoon 🙏❤️🐰🥮

Full review in the link of my bio ❤️🌟

Posted @withregram • @the.kids.books.curator 🇸🇬🐇🥮🇦🇺 All Four Quarters of the Moon by Shirley Marr @shirleyonmarrs⁠
Recommended age: 9+⁠
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*[Ad-review copy}⁠
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With more frequency our young children today are experiencing new pupils arriving into their schools from other countries whether they’re migrating for their parents work or fleeing a crisis in their homeland. Shirley Marr, author of the acclaimed A Glasshouse Full of Stars is back in middle grade with a new story about migration. Being a first generation Chinese-Australian, readers can feel reassured that the experiences felt by the characters are coming from a place of authenticity. ⁠
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The book is about a traditional Chinese family who migrate from Singapore to Australia in modern times. This story provides a valuable insight for readers to understand the differences between Western and Eastern cultures, from the different foods, to festivals, inter-family relationships, attitudes to learning or material items. This is a new beginnings story not only about sisterhood, but about learning to be loud with life, love and laughter. ⁠
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...full review on my blog (link in bio)!⁠
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✨Published 5th January 2023!!⁠
Available from my Bookshop.org store - link in bio!!⁠
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💕Thank you! x⁠
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*reviewed from proof via advance reading copy provided by the publisher #NetGalley⁠
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#AllFourQuartersOfTheMoon⁠
🎨 Saara Söderlund @saarainfeathers⁠
Publisher: @usborne_books⁠
#thekidsbookscurator #kidsbookrecs #kidsbooks #representationmatters #bookrecs #CuratedByHumans #childrensbooks #ownvoices #bookstagram #kidsbookstagram #middlegrade
Thank you @lovereading4schools 🙏 for choosing m Thank you @lovereading4schools 🙏 for choosing me as one of their Books of the Month, I’ve never felt so popular in January 😁🥰🌝🐰🥮 What wonderful company to be in ❤️#AllFourQuartersOfTheMoon

Posted @withregram • @lovereading4schools Our January #BooksOfTheMonth include poetry, wildlife, compelling YA fiction, moving story of sisterhood, a classic retold and an invaluable self help guide for teens. ⁠
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Click the link in our bio to browse the selection.⁠
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The Magic of Endings (9+) by Tom Avery, @andersenpress⁠
If I Were the World (3+/5+) by Mark Sperring, Illustrated by @natelledrawsstuff, @bloomsburychildrens⁠
Influential (YA) by @amarasagewrites, @faberchildrens⁠
All Four Quarters of the Moon (9+/11+) by @shirleyonmarrs, @usborne_books⁠
Failosophy for Teens (13+/YA) by @elizabday, @farshorebooks⁠
Frankenstein: A Retelling (13+) by @tanyalandman.art, Illustrated by @studiohelenbooks @barringtonstoke
“Presented in association with Fremantle Arts Ce “Presented in association with Fremantle Arts Centre

From moving moments, through the joy of friendship, to heartbreak, books play a vital role in helping young people navigate some of life’s hardest challenges. Join authors Shirley Marr, Jared Thomas and Sarah Winifred Searle as they discuss writing complex emotional narratives for children and young people with Melanie Hobbs.”

Come join in the discussion with me at the PWF, link in my bio! 

@melahobbs @jaredthomas6 @swinsea
Happy Lunar New Year! 💛🐰🧧As per tradition Happy Lunar New Year! 💛🐰🧧As per tradition, if you come visit me you can pick a cookie that will mysteriously foretell you future for this year! If you like I can also choose you one over the wonders of the internet. This is the fortune I got - and the one I got last year which did come true🙀🙀Bonus lo hei 🌈
Miss you Steph Bowe, it was an honour to meet you Miss you Steph Bowe, it was an honour to meet you in 2010 at MWF. We had fun! Keeping your candle burning @acrophony 🕯️💜

#StephBowe

 

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