News and events
Sept 2009: ROBOT RIOT! Regional tour NSW, QLD, VIC.
MARRICKVILLE, SYDNEY, BRISBANE, BENDIGO, BALLARAT, SUNBURY, MELB, BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL, MILDURA, DUBBO, ORANGE, BATHURST, LEURA, PENRITH.
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Hi everyone, thanks for making the robot riot tour one of the biggest and best yet! Stand by for THE VERY BAD BOOK tour in 2010.
Click here to read Jeffery E Doherty’s write up of one of the Robot Riot school events in Bathurst, NSW on his blog.
Posted on 3 August 2009 Permanent link to this post Comments (36)
Mar 7–April 1: AUST MASCOT MADNESS TOUR – Melbourne, Gold Coast, Perth, Blue Mountains, Nowra, Batemans Bay
A big bananary THANKYOU to everyone who came along to the events and made this one of the most enjoyable book tours I’ve ever had the pleasure to be on. I really appreciate your support and enthusiasm!
Thanks also to all the booksellers who work so hard at each event, and to Somerset College Celebration of Literature festival on the Gold coast, All Saints Festival in Perth and the Norman Lindsay Festival of Children’s literature in the Blue Mountains.
And, of course, a special thanks to the teachers and students from the following schools from all over Australia who made the other events so memorable: Dardanup Primary School; Djidi Djidi Aboriginal School; Carey Park Primary School; Eaton Community College; Picton School; Parkfield Primary School; Australind Primary School; Australind Senior High School; Moruya Primary School; St Mary’s Convent School; Broulee Primary School; St Peter’s Anglican College; Mogo Primary School; St Bernard’s Primary School; Batemans Bay Primary School; Samuel Terry Primary School; Warrimoo Primary School; Faulconbridge Primary School; Dawson Primary School; Lynwood Primary School; Bert Oldfield Primary School; Shelley Primary School; Our Lady of Lourdes; Blacktown West Primary School; Blacktown South Primary School; Seven Hills West Primary School; St John the Evangelist Catholic High School; Berry Primary School; Cambewarra Primary School; Nowra Primary School; North Nowra Primary School; Illaroo Road Primary School; Nowra Anglican College; Glen Huon Primary School; Ocean Forest Lutheran School; Dalyellup Primary School.
See you all again in July for the JUST MACBETH tour! Information on all events will be up on this blog as soon as they are available.
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Feb 22nd–Mar 6th 2009: US SCHOOLING AROUND TOUR -Phoenix, AZ & Southern California
Thank you to all the fabulous students and teachers at the schools below who made my visit so enjoyable!
Benchmark Elementary, Phoenix AZ: Copper Canyon Elementary, Scottsdale AZ: Pinnacle Peak Elementary, Scottsdale AZ: CTA Liberty, Chandler AZ: Fulton Elementary, Chandler AZ: Baldy View Elementary School, Upland CA: Upland Elementary School, Upland CA: Glenmeade Elementary School, Chino Hills CA: Ramona Jr High School, Chino CA: University Park Elementary, Irvine CA: Bonita Canyon Elementary, Irvine CA: Pegasus School, Huntington Beach, CA: Salt Creek Elementary School, Chula Vista, CA.
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Just Shocking wins 6 Australian Children’s choice awards
Andy Griffiths has become the first Australian author to win six children’s choice reading awards in one year, smashing his previous record of four children’s choice awards for the highly controversial The Bad Book in 2005.
JUST SHOCKING! won the younger reader’s categories of QLD’s BILBY Award (Books I Love Best Yearly), ACT’s COOL Award (Canberra’s Own Outstanding List), NSW’s KOALA Award (Kids Own Australian Literature Award) NT’s KROC Award (Kids Reading Oz Choice), WA’s WAYRBA Award (West Australian Young Readers’ Book Award) and VIC’s YABBA Award (Young Australians’ Best Book Award).
Each year, young readers in every state vote for the book they have most enjoyed reading that year. Australian children unanimously voted Andy Griffiths as their favourite author for younger readers in 2008.
JUST SHOCKING is the sixth in the ‘JUST’ series of books, first launched in 1997 with JUST TRICKING! Andy Griffiths has now sold over one million copies of his ‘JUST’ books in Australia, taking his total sales worldwide to over four million. His books have now won over 40 Australian children’s choice awards over the last ten years.
Andy Griffiths said, ‘As a child I loved the rambunctious anarchic humour of Lewis Carroll, Dr Seuss and the Cole’s Funny Picture Books and with the help of Terry Denton’s demented doodling I am thrilled to have been able to transmit this humour to a whole new generation through the Just series.’
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JUST MACBETH: the play! Sept-Oct 2008
‘Inspired silliness’ – Daily Telegraph
‘Irrepressibly irreverent … brilliant fun’ – The Australian
‘Great fun. Great theatre. Surprisingly good Shakespeare, too’ – Herald Sun
‘Exuberantly daft, very clever show’ – The Sun-Herald
‘Children as young as three and four years old were gripped and fully engaged along with teenagers and their teachers, who actually mouthed the words during some of the more famous Shakespearean speeches. Will Shakespeare and Andy Griffiths make a great team!’ – Australian Stage Online
‘Visceral images comic-book style, irreverent references to theatrical convention and wordplay, including a rearrangement of the play’s title, promise mirth aplenty for boys and girls. It is a promise delivered with gusto… it is hard to conceive of a more appropriate production through which to introduce children to the theatre, let alone Shakespeare’ – The Sydney Morning Herald
‘This is a high-energy, madcap production that had the children in the audience spell-bound from start to finish and they weren’t the only ones. Just Macbeth! is a great romp and the actors throw themselves into their roles with genuine delight.’ – The Sunday Herald Sun, Melbourne
‘Just Macbeth is a great piece of theatre … Griffiths’ genius isn’t just in bringing his anarchic sense of humour to such a heavy work but in the way he integrates the bard’s language into the contemporary play.’ – Drum Media
Click here to read full reviews … click here to see a 7.30 report featuring highlights from the show along with interviews with cast, director and Andy.
Bell Shakespeare’s production of Just Macbeth! by Andy Griffiths is a really silly version of Shakespeare’s great big gory tragedy starring Andy, Lisa, Danny and Jen from the JUST series.
And when we say really silly, we mean really REALLY silly as it is performed by six funny but tragic actors and a garden gnome and features a severed head that talks Shakespearean.And when we say really, REALLY silly, we mean really, REALLY, REALLY silly as there are witches and whiz fizz and ghosts and girl germs and weird Elizabethan things like soliloquies and sharp swords and other things beginning with S.
An hilarious and irreverent take on one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, this new show will have you in stitches!
Posted on 13 September 2008 Permanent link to this post Comments (8)
ME AND TERRY working hard on our next book …
… well, that’s what we tell everybody, anyway.
