Just So Stories

Scholastic Australia

September 2025

ISBN:9781761123849

RRP: $19.99

It really could be set right here at the end of our street – where bush meets the sea and there are native animals sheltering in quiet spots. Cute little friends, Cookie and Clover, are a pair of helpful koalas who do their best to care for their neighbourhood and everyone in it.

When Banksia Bush loses its magic because of the naughty Hullabaloos, the Gumblossom Fairies ask the two koalas to try to find it and bring it back. So, away they go, visiting all the places they might find the missing magic and on each double spread the reader is invited into the book searching for the items listed.

It’s got some lovely rhyme, gorgeous illustrations, cute animals, and interactivity – what more could one ask for? Oh! and it’s just pretty and sweet. An all-round winner in fact – as we know we will get with this creator every time.

A lovely gift for a Small’s stocking or just because – any reader from around 3 up to around 6/7 will delight in this one and it gets a 5 🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨from me.