Roxie Munro and book review blog The Looking Glass Review

Here's a link to an interview with maze book illustrator Roxie Munro on what it is like to start a new book:
http://lookingglassreview.blogspot.com/2010/10/what-it-is-like-to-start-new-book.html
and this book review blog is interesting too, eg the post on Banned books - what you can do... http://lookingglassreview.blogspot.com/2010/09/banned-books-week-what-you-can-do.html

Judy Freeman and reading aloud

I explored the website of Roxie Munro http://www.roxiemunro.com/ whose book Mazeways A-Z (Sterling, 2007) is one of my 2 year old nephew's absolute favourites - detailed maze pictures for each letter of the alphabet with different settings - A = Airport, B = Boats, C = Circus, each with hundreds of details to discover... I really recommend it - is available to purchase in NZ and is in the National Library CIS collection for schools. Her website has lots of information, including a step by step guide for children to creating their own mazes...

Roxie's website offers a free signed bookplate, so I wrote away and we now have a friendly correspondence. Roxie mentioned a good friend of hers - Judy Freeman, so I looked her up too and found she is someone I have come across in other capacities - she wrote the wonderful teacher guide to another of my favourite books by Kate Di Camillo The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane available here http://www.edwardtulane.com/

Judy also writes content for James Patterson's website ReadKiddoRead which has a fabulous selection of recommendations and advice... http://readkiddoread.com/home

And I came across this great article Judy wrote for School Library Journal - Books kids will sit still for : 10 ways to recognise a great readaloud - at this link.
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6378376.html