Hachette Australia
Imprint: Lothian Children’s Books
9780734422125|Oct 2026|RRP $24.99
If you haven’t caught onto this one yet, you need to grab it ASAP – before your budget closes if it hasn’t already – because you are going to want this one for the start of your new year.
A glorious calendar of special days and times celebrating diversity in particular and with such a joyful rhyme scheme, which is never forced and has a terrific rhythm and cadence throughout – well done to Davina Bell, because I am very picky about rhyming books. I love the little differences like calling it Special Person Day – as opposed to the oft-repeated Grandparents/Mothers/Fathers day thing because we know not all kiddos have that particular flavour of ‘parent’.
And I particularly love that it’s not just ‘significant special’ days but things like the first day back at school [Yes! who doesn’t love all that new stationery and a new lunchbox – okay, I don’t need them now but I still look at choose the ones I would want!]. There’s a nice ‘life’ to the cartoon-style illustrations from Tete Garcia which I think will also have great appeal for kiddos.
We have all done those UoI on Special Days and if, like me, you feature them in your weekly library program it is books like this one that underpin our work with the kiddos. This one is just as appropriate for older ones as younger ones and because it covers such a terrific range, I would be putting it top of my list of resources for that topic. It’s a warm and embracing 5 🌏🌏🌏🌏🌏rating for readers from Prep upwards.
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