The 9th National Conference and EXPO

"All the Wild Wonders" will be held at the Melbourne Convention Centre
1- 4 May 2008

Conference Website BOOKINGS OPEN!

Papers from the CBCA 8th National Conference,
Sydney May 2006

NOTE: These papers are in PDF format

• CLAIRE CARMICHAEL: Writing for teens and writing for adults
• MARGARET CLARK: Writing with young people: notes to myself
• ANDREW DADDO: A little more open-minded from book to stage
• ANDY GRIFFITHS & TERRY DENTON: The illustrator as co-author
  A conversation between Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton, chaired by Anna McFarlane, Publisher, Children’s Books, Pan Macmillan
• LEIGH HOBBS: The editorial process
• RONALD JOBE: Australian books in the world: The Canadian experience
  Theme: Kinship, Delight, Admiration, and Challenge
• LENE KAABERBOL: A crow’s tale
• DOUG MACLEOD: Working for the chicken channel
  Writing Books and Writing for Television
• MARK MACLEOD: Collaborating on picture books
• SIOBHAN McHUGH: My Story: Snowy – the diary of Eva Fischer
• EMMA QUAY: Characters: Animal or human?
• LISA SHANAHAN: The Delphic Oracle, Frank Spencer and me (Or the things I have learnt which I constantly forget . . . )