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Caruso’s Song to the Moon
Written and illustrated by Adele Jaunn; published by Lothian Books; ISBN 0-7344-0624-X; 32 pages; $26.95; available at good bookshops or order by phoning 1300 135 113.
Since graduating from UniSA with a Bachelor of Visual Communications (majoring in illustration) in 2000, Norwegian native Adele Jaunn has built up an impressive body of work specialising in children’s books. Caruso’s Song to the Moon is her second book – the first, The Escape from Kettle Island, was published in Norway.
Jaunn’s colourful, textured style has obviously hit a chord with
audiences and publishers, with the Adelaide-based artist in high demand,
with a string of other projects now in development.
This latest book centres around Caruso the cat – named, says Jaunn, in
honour of legendary Italian tenor Enrico Caruso – who fancies himself as
a bit of a crooner. Caruso starts to sing to the moon, but his overtures
are not appreciated by his neighbors, and he’s driven to find an
isolated spot from which to serenade.
Despite continually being moved on, Caruso keeps on crooning.
In the end he’s satisfied that he’s achieved his aim of being recognised
for his singing, while the reader knows differently.
Aimed at children aged four to seven, Caruso’s Song to the Moon will
delight young readers as they follow Caruso around the backyard and
streets where he spends his time. It’s also a fantastic introduction to
musical notes and their alphabetical names.
For your chance to win a copy of this book, email your name and address to thegraduate@unisa.edu.au marked att: caruso.
Lifelong learning and the democratic imagination – Revisioning justice, freedom and community
Edited by Peter Willis and Pam Carden; published by Post Pressed; ISBN 1 876682-63-9; 535 pages; cost $60; to order email creewbooks@unisa.edu.au
Lifelong learning and the democratic imagination is a collection of essays from adult and community educators from around the world, which share the belief that democracy is about people consciously sharing power.
Editors Willis and Carden, from UniSA’s Centre for Research in Education, Equity and Work, argue that in modern life such an equitable stance needs to be learnt and re-learnt against competing cultures of individualism and competition.
They say that such learning occurs when powerful evocations of human equality and dignity capture the human imagination and move the heart. This book pursues what needs to be done to generate suitable pre-dispositions for an unselfish sociable spirit to take root and grow.
The book has five sections: the first looks at visions of democratic imagining; the second at predispositions for democratic imagining; and the last three chapters explore the educational work of imagining democracy in three learning areas – community and work locations, higher and work-related education, and schools. Some of the 31 contributors include UniSA’s Alan Reid, Pat Thomson, Peter Bishop, and Tom Stehlik, international scholars like University of Woollongong’s Christine Fox as well as Donovan Plumb and Michael Welton (Canada), William West (Britain) and Astrid Von Kotze (South Africa).
For your chance to win a copy of this book, email your name and postal address to thegraduate@unisa.edu.au marked att: lifelong learning.
Visual Perception of Music Notation – On-line and off-line recognition
Susan Ella George; published by IRM Press; ISBN 193177794-2; 357 pages; $64.95; available at Unibooks Mawson Lakes or order online at www.idea-group.com/books
Edited by Susan George, a senior lecturer at UniSA’s School of Computer and Information Science, Visual perceptions of music notation addresses the computer recognition of music notation, its interpretation and use within various application contexts.
With sections on off-line music processing, handwritten music recognition, and music description and its applications, the book will give readers an appreciation of the intricacies of music-recognition computer technology.
It includes research on image processing and pen-based computing, representation languages and web-based applications.
It is aimed primarily at researchers and students in the field of pattern recognition, document analysis and pen-based computing, as well as potential users and vendors of music recognition systems.
For your chance to win a copy of this book, email your name and postal address to thegraduate@unisa.edu.au marked att: music anotation.