While there’s nothing wrong with these overseas titles, or with Australian teenagers reading them, Aussie teens deserve stories that speak to their experiences too. The rest were international bestsellers by American authors with film franchises and huge marketing campaigns behind them.
Of the ten titles on the list, only two were Australian, Every Breath by Ellie Marney and The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak. It started when the Australian Library and Information Association released its list of most-borrowed YA books for the first quarter of 2015. If you’re Australian and a fan of YA, you’ve likely heard about the #LoveOzYA movement by now.
With brilliantly entertaining short stories from beloved young adult authors Amie Kaufman, Melissa Keil, Will Kostakis, Ellie Marney, Jaclyn Moriarty, Michael Pryor, Alice Pung, Gabrielle Tozer, Lili Wilkinson and Danielle Binks, this all-new collection will show the world exactly how much there is to love about Aussie YA. And in addition to loving this book completely in its own right, I’m also utterly thrilled for Danielle to see it out in the wild and causing such a buzz. B egin, End, Begin is edited and features a story by Danielle Binks, who I have the great fortune of calling my agent. And while I haven’t been paid, bribed, cajoled, blackmailed, coerced, or, you know, asked to write about Begin, End, Begin (I didn’t even request a review copy because I so wanted to have the experience of buying this book from my local bookshop), I am ever so slightly biased. Packed full of mischief, mayhem and wordplay, every book features three fish-out-of-water episodes about this loveable canine crew – and their new friend, Edmund.Before I launch into the fanfest that’s about to ensue, I feel I need to be upfront: My intent in writing this post is 100% to make you go out and buy Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology (Harper Collins, May 2017). Then things do start to get a little weird… In this sweet, goofy new series for 6+, four loveable friends will learn to get along with the strangest creature they’ve ever met, and discover that sometimes you can get what you want without barking like crazy – whether it’s persuading the evil bunnies next door not to woodchip your favourite stick, or convincing the fancy club at Movie Night to let your weird new housemate sit with them. There’s NOTHING weird about their home on Sullivan Street eithĮr – until the day a gorilla named Edmund comes to live with them. Except that they live in a mansion - and they’re dogs. There is absolutely NOTHING weird about Cookie, Kyle, Fizzy and Lady Delilah. An adorably funny series about a slightly odd house that’s turned upside down when a stranger comes to stay.
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