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(US/Canada residents only; Giveaway runs 1-31 August)
Goodreads Book Giveaway
The Lies We Tell Ourselves
by Maura Pierlot
Giveaway ends August 31, 2025.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
Buy The Lies We Tell Ourselves
ISBN: 9780645099836 (Pbk) – Also available in audiobook
and ebook formats
Size (mm): 203 x 127 (5 x 8 inches); 352pp
Format/Price: $22.99 (pbk)
Pub. Date: 1 August 2025
Publisher: Big Ideas Press
Contact: Maura Pierlot
Email: maura@bigideaspress.com
Website: bigideaspress.com
YOU CAN BUY CLUTTERBUGS HERE
ISBN: 9780645099829 (Hbk); 9780645099843 (Pbk)
Size (mm): 216 x 280, 32pp
Format/Price: $27.99 (hbk); $16.99 (pbk)
Pub. Date: 1 April 2025
Publisher: Big Ideas Press
Contact: Maura Pierlot
Email: maura@bigideaspress.com
Website: bigideaspress.com
REVIEWS
The early Clutterbugs reviews are in ⬇️
and they’re amazing!
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A neat tale of waste mindfulness wrapped in the gift of creativity, friendship and play, fashioned with whimsy, lively action and heart. This picture book is the gift that keeps on giving. (Romi Sharp, Just Write for Kids)
It’s a really fun and lighthearted way to help Smalls understand the importance of waste reduction, reusing/repurposing and being mindful. And at the same time shows the value of giving a gift made from the heart … (Sue Warren aka Losang Zopa, Just So Stories)
With faultless rhyme by Maura Pierlot and colourful and entertaining illustrations by Maya Bora, Clutterbugs is a fun and satisfying read offering the simple yet wholly important messages: to repurpose and recycle, and how thought and effort are what really give meaning to gifts. (Shelly Higgs, children’s book author)
With a rollicking rhythm and a fun rhyming pattern, Clutterbugs is a delight to read and share with young children … As well as encouraging children to be more organised and less messy with their belongings. Clutterbugs will inspire them to be more creative in the way they use. reuse and recycle them. The book can be read and shared for sheer enjoyment, or to provide those deeper discussions. (Norah Colvin, Readilearn)
Kids will love this narrative because they will totally relate to Steff and the predicament that she is in. The story is engaging and rhythmic, and there are many and varied themes… (@get.kids.booked)
FRAGMENTS
Official Trailer
Fragments The Web Series
View the 8-episode series HERE.
Launch: 23 February 2023
National Film and Sound Archives
A big thank you to the 150 or so people who attended the premiere of Fragments on 23 February. It was a wonderful celebration of the journey from stage play to book to web series. Guests were the first to view the full cut of the web series, followed by a Q&A with members of the Canberra creative and production team. The ACT Arts Minister, Tara Cheyne, officially launched the work.
(photos: Photox – Canberra Photographic Services)
Official Trailer
Fragments The Web Series
Eight lives untethered.
Eight voices in the dark.
Eight stories of adversity.
Eight lost souls looking for hope.
Launching 23 February
6pm for 7pm screening, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra
Fragments: Journeys from Isolation to connection
Isolated and alone, eight high school students with seemingly nothing in common are tasked with a creative exploration of their mental health and wellbeing. A task that will make them question who they are and how they can find their way back …. to themselves and each other.
The 2nd edition (2022). Updated and expanded content. Printed in narrative format (young adult fiction with illustrations/graphics). Please click HERE for Teacher Notes or click below to order.
Fragments: Journeys from Isolation to connection
Eight young people navigating high school and beyond, each struggling to hold on – to family, to friends, to a piece of themselves. Every single day they, and others, are working hard to keep it together. So hard, they don’t see their friends are struggling too.
The original edition (2021). Printed in play format. Cross-disciplinary study guide included at back of book. Ideal for school use.
Fragments The Play
“I feel like I’m a piece, a fragment that’s missing all the good buts but I don’t know where to find the rest … the parts I need to work properly. I bet they wouldn’t fit anyway.”
Lexy, “Roller Coaster” // Fragments
Fragments enjoyed a sellout debut season at The Street Theatre in Canberra in October 2019, programmed for Mental Health Month.
Fragments – The Journey
Life is not black and white, and it’s not always full colour either.
Much of our lives is spent in the murky grey area, where smiles can mask despair and isolation.
That’s one of the many reasons I wrote Fragments.
Fragments invites a conversation, not a one-off, tick the box kind of talk but an ongoing dialogue that creates connection and meaning … for all of us.
Check out the video below to learn more about
the Fragments journey.
Fragments – The Journey from Maura Pierlot on Vimeo.
For more information, please visit the Fragments website
and follow Fragments on Instagram.
Follow The Journey
Fragments
Image By Miguel Gallagher.
Zane Menegazzo as Mason.