Recommendations & Guides
Bubble Planet: An Immersive Experience
The ball pit is deeper than it looks. Bubble Planet in Brunswick with a four-year-old — which rooms are fun, what it costs, and a bit of honesty about the wear and tear.
Recommendations & Guides
Recommendations & Guides
The Story of the Moving Image, ACMI
We went to ACMI because the NGV had been a fizzer and we still had an afternoon to fill. The Story of the Moving Image exhibition with a four-year-old — what works and why you might still need your wallet even though the exhibition itself is free.
Finding strange and wonderful books
Jedediah Berry has a new book out and, when I looked, it wasn't in any of the libraries in Tasmania. Nor my local bookstore. None of his work is actually, which feels like a real loss, especially since The Manual of Detection is the kind of book that
Reality bending books
Looking forward to Marisha Pessl's Darkly very much. Impossible doors, unstable reality, a school that might not be what it seems - it's this same strange territory I keep trying to write about. While we wait (or later when we want more) here's an in-
Circle
On shapes in darkness and the stories we tell about them Some books know exactly when to turn out the lights. I gave Circle to a friend's three-year-old daughter recently. She's not usually one for sitting through stories, her parents say, but this one