Naked Bunyip Dancing

Naked Bunyip Dancing is a book of free verse poems. DON'T be discouraged. Steven Herrick, the author, has written many award winning books (also free verse), although i have only had the pleasure of reading two. Naked Bunyip Dancing is a collection of poems about a year at school including friend issues, the awkwardness between divorced parents, baffling teachers, you name it. It's impossible to read it without laughing your head off and there's plenty of quirky ideas to go in with the mix. its only short and won't take long to read, but every page is worth it. Official website is http://www.acay.com.au/~sherrick/ where you can also order the books. By the river, another book of Herrick is extremley emotionally powerful and compelling, but not as funny. It is a book targeted more at teens while Naked Bunyip Dancing could and SHOULD be read by anyone.

Once in a blue moon- its a term most people use. Whats it actually mean, though? A blue moon is actually when a full moon occurs twice within one month.

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Llamas

Llamas are pack animals with long necks and funny looking fur. Despite appearances they are intelligent. They can weigh from 127 kilograms to 204, and the can carry from 20-30% of their body weight. Llamas spit in order to establish rank within their herds, and they are sociable animals- and they're super awseome because (DUN DUN DUN) they're LLAMAS!

The originated from North American around 40 million years ago, but now over 100 000 live in South America. Their biological name is (hehehe) lama glama. They also feature in the completley fantastic Llama song!

Moon

Because the moon takes approximately a month to orbit the Earth, and the earth spins on its axis (23.5 degrees is the tilt angle) while orbiting the sun, we only ever see one side of the moon.

Borrowed Light

An honest, emotional and down to earth story, twisting mysteries of the moon and stars into the painful experiences of a sixteen year old girl, Borrowed Light is written with grace and has a unique style to it.
Callisto May is named after a moon, and a night she gazes up at the twinkling stars, thousands of years old, perhaps already dead. She could tell you something you didn't know every day, but when it comes to being herself she has no idea. She calls herself a moon: a borrower of light, and tries to fit in, blending her personality, her appearance, to those around her. A disaster at sixteen shakes her out of this boring way of life, but she finds she has been as distant as the furthest galaxy, and there's no one to help. Throughout this book she deals with her family and its foggy secrets, licked with dust but always there, and the realization that there's no one to be except yourself.
Anna Feinberg writes with piercing sensitivity and skilled perception of every day life that makes this book one of my favourites. It's completely believable and beautifully touching, and has been shortlisted.

Of Butterfly and French

Here's a random fact, with not much importance, C: If you are a person who studies butterflies (formally known as a Lepidopterist), and find youself in Spain with no idea where the local butterfly's are, the Spanish word for butterfly is mariposa.
If you happen to travel to France with your cat, which unexpetedly gets run over by a car, you would say "Mon chat est mort," meaning, "my cat is dead." However, if you are a evil scientist with questionable methods and you find yourself in France, you'll need to say "Mon chat etait mort," meaning "my cat was dead," because obviously, as an evil scientist, you'll have the means to bring it back to life.

The butterfly shown in this picture is known as the Blue Morpho butterfly, or Morpho menelaus