Tempest in Teapot Alert

Just after winning a Children's Book Council of Australia award for The Silver Donkey, Sonya Hartnett told Brisbane's Courier-Mail, "A lot of the Australian stuff out there is crap, it's rubbish." Not surprisingly, some other Oz authors do not agree. Read Alert, the blog for youth literature at the State Library of Victoria, sums up the row, and even if such squabbles don't interest you, do take a look at the cool blog. Scroll down when you get there.