Sunday, August 13, 2006
Queenie publicity
I commented in an earlier blog on the difficulty of getting publicity for children's books compared to adult books. Now I'm being proved wrong by the dazzling publicity for Queenie: One Elephant's Story. Full pages in the Herald Sun and the Age, reviewed in the Australian, an author interview and talkback on Derek Guille on 774 - and that's just part of it. It is amazing how the publicity is drawing out people with a connection to the Queenie story including the grandson of Lawson, Queenie's keeper. A "think local" story that has much wider echos.
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I think you should read the book. I think it is quite beautiful (but I would). Another beautiful book on death is Old Pig, which I recall reading some years ago to my daughter. I've read lots of books at bedtime as has any parent, but this reading stands out in my memory as a binding emotional experience for both of us. In the West we hide from death too much, and it's a subject that makes the best stories.
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