A Human for a Heart by Matt Zurbo Someone gave Lilah a second hand robot for her birthday. (Boxy, old school robot, about ten foot tall, protruding steel frame around chest plate.) Its log sheet said it used to plough fields, (Robot, picks for hands, working furiously under the sun.) but one day it … Continue reading Day 50: A Human for a Heart
Author: Matt Zurbo
Matt Zurbo is a writer and bush worker. He has had nine kids books published, one of which became an Emmy winning cartoon, as well as YA novels (shortlisted CBC Book of the Year), and various works of fiction and non-fiction. He has written for music magazines and copious amounts on Aussie Rules football. He has published many things under many fake names on the internet, just for the fun of it, but won’t tell you what they are! He just loves stories, and writing.
Day 49: Billycart
Billycart! by Matt Zurbo (A book without words. A great lesson in story observing, and/or communication between reader and child. Making up your own narrative, and sound effects, as you read it is fun for both of you.) Two boys standing on grass, watching kid with helmet on, pass on billycart, Boy 1, in dinosaur … Continue reading Day 49: Billycart
Day 48: Cat’s Eye Jam
Cat’s Eye Jam by Matt Zurbo (thanks to Angela Sunde) Two little witches made some jam for everybody to eat. They made it big, they made it yummy, they made it super sweet. They put it in a rickerty cart, drawn by a cranky ox, Poorly steered to the markets, by a wily old … Continue reading Day 48: Cat’s Eye Jam
Day 47: Pirate Footy
Pirate Footy by Matt Zurbo This is a bat. I’m Iggy. (Big fruit bat hanging from a tree, down and to the left of it is an eight-year old kid, with real mop of blond hair, looking up at it. He is wearing a yellow footy jumper with black slash and bat emblem … Continue reading Day 47: Pirate Footy
