Volume 24 No. 5 November 2009 Contents: Editor’s comments Revisiting the Life and Times of Octavian Nothing and Other Musings M.T. Anderson interviewed By Rayma Turton Know the Author/Illustrator: Robert Crowther By Christine Horsfield In Which a Reviewer Gets Hot and Bothered Kerry White Reviews Return to the Hundred Acre Wood The Ranger's Apprentice Series Overview by Jo Goodman Advocate for Children’s Literature: Lesley Reece By Mark Greenwood Dr John Long By Lynne Babbage Cover Book Review: I Left My Mobile at the Mall by Wendy Harmer Reviewed by Helen Purdie Where to Buy Reviews: Before School Beginner Readers Independent Readers Extending Readers Index to books reviewed in this issue Magpies Collection NEW ZEALAND SUPPLEMENT Putting the Uuumph! Back into Reading Literature Circles at Myross Bush School By Justine Hughes The Word Witch; The Magical World of Margaret Mahy Reviewed by Bill Nagelkerke REVIEWS