Blokes’ Book Breakfast Wednesday 21 August from 7.00am to 8.30am Venue: The Rose Reading Room - Upstairs in the Weickhardt Library Guest Speaker: Mr Michael Gerard Bauer Library Staff invite Middle and Senior School boys and their fathers to join them for a delicious cooked breakfast and to learn about following your dreams, writing, the value of reading, and the inspiration behind Mr Bauer’s books. The guest speaker will be Mr Michael Gerard Bauer. Mr Bauer is an internationally acclaimed author who was born and lives in Brisbane. In 2000 he gave up his teaching career to pursue his dream of being a writer. In 2004 his first YA novel The Running Man was published to great acclaim. It subsequently won the 2005 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year for Older Readers and was short-listed for the NSW, Victorian and South Australian State Premiers’ Literary awards. In 2007 his second novel, a ‘laugh out loud’ comedy entitled Don’t Call Me Ishmael! was short-listed in both the CBCA awards and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and won the 2007 Children’s Peace Literature Award and the 2008 South Australian Festival Award for Children’s Literature. It was also included in the 2007 White Ravens selection for Outstanding International Books for children and young adults. Since then a number of his books have won, or been short-listed, for awards both in Australia and overseas.
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