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The number one book mentioned this week is Ilana Snyder's The Literacy Wars, which addresses the 'literacy crisis' in the Australian education system. What's really going on in our classrooms?
The number one book mentioned this week is Ilana Snyder's The Literacy Wars, which addresses the 'literacy crisis' in the Australian education system. What's really going on in our classrooms?
The number one book mentioned this week is Ilana Snyder's The Literacy Wars, which addresses the 'literacy crisis' in the Australian education system. What's really going on in our classrooms? Also featuring on the Most Mentioned chart is Geraldine Brooks' awaited new novel People of the Book. Even though Brooks has turned her hand to fiction, there are still traces of her foreign correspondence experience and her former life in Australia throughout her fiction. This story begins in Sydney, then travels to war-torn Sarajevo and Bosnia.
Most Mentioned in the Media This Week:
1 Literacy Wars, The by Ilana Snyder
2 Life of Picasso, Volume I, 1881-1906, A by John Richardson
3 People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
5 His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
This article from Thorpe Bowker's Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker