Zern Liew writes The seven deadly sins were designed as a guide to keeping on the straight and narrow. But sinning can be constructive too – especially in business! And there they all are, the whole seven - each one related to your business - a great, fun read.
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Bologna, Italy.... The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) today announced the winners of the 2010 IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Awards. This is the 20th Anniversary of the award given by IBBY and the Asahi Shimbun newspaper company for international projects run by groups or institutions judged to be making a lasting contribution to […]
Bologna, Italy...The Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), has announced that David Almond, from the United Kingdom is the winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Author Award and that Jutta Bauer, from Germany is the winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator Award. The […]
t is a well known fact that most people believe that leaders are born, not made. It is also an unfortunate belief that those who have leadership potential also believe this as truth. However the other camp believes that leaders can be made. The former statement is only partly true. There are those with charisma […]
It was downright devious, definitely bordered on preposterous, and decidedly over the top. Maybe even a little cheesy. Yet the audience gobbled it up. The speaker gave a brilliant performance. He courted his audience's emotions. He pushed and pulled on their hot buttons. He pandered to the whimsical fancies of the crowd. Effective? Yes... if […]
Pioneer of Australian idiom for kids dies From: The Australian, March 25, 2010 12:00AM PATRICIA Wrightson, who died this week aged 88, was one of the first children's writers to use Australian places and idioms in her novels. Born in the northern NSW town of Lismore, Wrightson's first books were published in the 1950s, and […]
Kitty Crowther is an illustrator and author, born in 1970, who lives and works in Belgium. The jury's citation reads as follows: Kitty Crowther is the master of line but also of atmosphere. She maintains the tradition of the picture book while transforming and renewing it. In her world, the door between imagination and reality […]
