Takeshita Demons in Read it! magazine: Encouraging reading for all ages

Read it! YAY! Takeshita Demons was recently featured in Read it! magazine, put out by Books etc and Published World to encourage reading for all ages. The Read it! magazine is FREE and part of a fundraising scheme for UK schools, where 5% of total book purchases goes back to the school. Win prizes, read [...]

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The terrific top three books for January: Blue Peter Book Club

And the terrific top three books for January are: – Takeshita Demons – Xtreme X-Ray – Madame Pamplemousse and the Time Travelling Café YAY!!!!! This is what Blue Peter said about Takeshita Demons: “Do you like floating heads and evil spirits? Then you will love this horror adventure! Spooky demons invade Miku’s school and kidnap [...]

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My top five interview questions for Cristy Burne

Head over to Booked Up HQ to check out the great books available and explore their super new website. I have a guest post on the Booked Up blog this week, about writing Takeshita Demons and being a writer, and hope that lots of kids will ask me lots of questions. See you there! xxx

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Takeshita Demons reviewed in The West Australian

This rollicking ride by Perth-based author Cristy Burne is totally deserving of the Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices award for 2009. Take a young Japanese girl, Miku, who is protected by her Baba, and the family’s zashiki-warashi, move her to England and watch out for the demons who have followed her and her family. This exciting, [...]

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Takeshita Demons reviewed in The Age

Japanese culture has influenced this first instalment in what is set to be a trilogy of books featuring Japanese character Miku and her family. Debut Australian author Cristy Burne has lived for several years in Japan, where she grew interested in the local folklore; she now lives in Perth but curiously chose to set her [...]

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One of “summer’s best children’s books”

YAY…More reviews are coming in and the news is good People are enjoying Takeshita Demons YAY!!!! There’s a fab review of Takeshita Demons up at PaperTigers: Lovely highlights below: Takeshita Demons will have readers on the edges of their seats… Cristy Burne has created a fast-paced story full of suspense… Takeshita Demons is likely to [...]

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Filming for the Booked Up DVD

Exciting times! As part of the Booked Up program, WalkTall Media are producing a DVD introducing the 19 books on the Booked Up list. Each book is introduced by its author, then reviewed by a Year 7 student. And to keep things short and sweet, each segment is only 30-40 seconds long.  So…I was asked [...]

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Interview with children’s book specialist Geraldine Brennan

I’m rejigging my website in the leadup to the release of Takeshita Demons. I’m deleting some bits and adding others, and one of the things I rediscovered was this interview conducted by children’s book specialist Geraldine Brennan shortly after I won the 2009 Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award with Takeshita Demons. That was [...]

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How old is a piece of string?

START YOUR CLOCKS! Crunch time for Takeshita Demons is getting closer: just 36 days left! Apparently I have a final printed copy in the post…yee ha! How old is a piece of string? Like any procrastinating author, I like to Google the name of my book in the days leading up to its release. (Did [...]

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I LOVE LIBRARIES

Although I can’t seem to pronounce “library” (apparently I say “lye-berry” and this is wrong?)(how did I get to this ripe old age and noone has ever told me that before??), I do love them. This week I went to the State Library of Western Australia for the MEET THE TALENT session with a stack [...]

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