New website and home for the blog!

Hello Friends,

Clementine Rose and I are really excited about our new website.  It's where you can find out lots of things about us and our best grownup friend Jacqueline Harvey and there's wallpaper and a name generator (so you can have your very own Alice-Miranda style name) and even party invitations and recipes.  Most exciting of all, you can sign up for the monthly newsletter which will have all sorts of fun things, including sneak peeks of new books, exclusive content you won't find anywhere else and this month there's a great competition to win a signed Alice-Miranda tote bag which is very handy for carrying all sorts of things like library books and sports gear! and you can't buy anywhere).

We love writing our blog too and it's now going to be part of the website - so you can decide whether you want to read blogs from me or Clementine Rose or Jacqueline Harvey or all three.  If you look on the picture below it shows you how to filter the blogs.

So, to keep up with everything please make sure that you head over to www.jacquelineharvey.com.au

This Sunday our best grownup friend Jacqueline Harvey will be at the Sydney Writers' Festival Family Day from 10am.  She'd love to see you and you can even have morning tea with her!

Next week we're all heading to Adelaide and Mt Gambier and a little town called Millicent so please check on the website for our events and hopefully we will see you there!

Lots of love,

Alice-Miranda (and Clementine Rose) xxxx

New Books, a book signing and upcoming events

Hello Friends,

I hope you've had a great week.  It's been a very exciting one for me and my best grownup friend Jacqueline Harvey.  Alice-Miranda in Paris has been shortlisted for two awards!  The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) and the REAL awards which act as the shortlist for the YABBAs, KOALA, COOL and KROC awards.  The ABIAs are voted on by people who work in the book industry like booksellers and publishers and the the REAL awards are voted by children just like you from Victoria, NSW, the ACT and the Northern Territory.  It's a huge honour to know that there are lots of people reading and enjoying my adventures.  You can ask your teachers and librarians how to cast your vote!

Jacqueline has been super busy finishing a new Clementine Rose story which is called Clementine Rose and the Famous Friend. It's the seventh of Clemmie's adventures and will be out in October this year. In the meantime we can show you the cover of the next book, Clementine Rose and the Treasure Box which will be out on the 1st of July.  I think it's so pretty.

Next Saturday, the 10th May Jacqueline Harvey is going to be signing books at Book Review at St Ives Village Shopping Centre from 11am.  You can come along and have your Clementine Rose and Alice-Miranda books signed - remember the latest Clementine adventure is Clementine Rose and the Seaside Escape and my latest adventure is Alice-Miranda in Japan.  Jacqueline will be there with bookmarks and posters, so come along and say hello.

There are lots more events coming soon.  On Sunday 25 May Jacqueline is appearing at the Family Day at the Sydney Writers' Festival.  You can come along and hear her speak and then have morning tea with her too.

Jacqueline is touring in South Australia from Monday 26 - Saturday 31 May and will post all the event details in the next week or so and after that she's appearing at the Abbotsleigh Literary Festival in Sydney which is open to all schools and individuals and you can book tickets here.

Anyway, have a lovely weekend.  If you're playing sport, have a great game!

Lots of love,
Alice-Miranda xxx

PS  I wanted to share with you one of my special friends, Piper who is showing off her huge collection of Alice-Miranda and Clementine Rose books.  And finally, I need to let you know that very soon (hopefully in the next couple of weeks), there is going to be a fantastic new Jacqueline Harvey website which will have special sections for me and for Clementine Rose as well with lots of games and fun activities for you to do.