Michelle Robinson

A big owl and a small owl sit up in a tree. In trying to show each other how big they are, the small owl is accidentally knocked out of the tree. Can the big owl save him? This quirkily illustrated story is written by Michelle Robinson. A big owl and a small owl sit up in a tree. In trying to show each other how big they are, the small owl is accidentally knocked out of the tree. Can the big owl save him? This quirkily illustrated story is written by Michelle Robinson.Pink A/Band 1A books offer emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations.Pages 14–15 provide an illustrated storyboard that consolidates understanding of the story and provides a wealth of speaking and listening opportunities.Text type: A story with patterned languageCurriculum links: Personal, social and emotional development

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"Goodnight tractor, time to sleep."Join a little boy, as he says goodnight to all of his toys in this playful and soothing story.Sending little ones to sleep for generations, this beloved story is packed with delightful illustrations, large easy-to-read text and gentle rhymes. Discover other Goodnight stories: Goodnight Digger Goodnight PrincessGoodnight Spaceman

"Goodnight digger, time to sleep." Join a little boy, as he says goodnight to all of his toys in this playful and soothing story.Sending little ones to sleep for generations, this beloved story is packed with delightful illustrations, large easy-to-read text and gentle rhymes. Discover other Goodnight stories: Goodnight TractorGoodnight PrincessGoodnight Pirate

Part detective novel, part cinematic saga, part street-smart narrative, the poems in The Life of a Hunter form a document of expedition that couples individual discovery with communal transformation. Michelle Robinson's characters are consigned to particular mechanisms of survival - to various forms of physical and psychological evolutions - as a reaction to their search for an acceptable spiritual condition. The multiple identities of her pressured characters are susceptible to physical transformations that provide ""a brief jolt of anesthesia, / instead of the cold tenderness of interruption."" Robinson uses the culture of film and fiction as an analogy for the world just out of reach and the world already at hand; preoccupied with what precision ""sounds like,"" the figures in her poems respond to the possibility of future change as well as the fact that change is a constant in their lives. ""Don't misunderstand. It was the most cynical year of our era / and anything would have been better than to have been asked / to find something beautiful."" Robinson's is a strong young voice, detached and observant yet disturbingly present.