Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe



  • Aunty Kim @ Lithgow Primary School

    Yes, this is my middle daughter revolutionising inclusive education at Lithgow Primary School – ❤️💛🖤 And here is the activity booklet she put together for her jarjums – free for you to use with yours. Read more

  • Three Dresses – Wanda Gibson

    UQP April 2024 ISBN: 9780702266355 RRP: $26.99 As soon as I saw this book, I wanted to review it as I knew it would be both beautiful and poignant. I’ve not been to Hopevale or Woorabinda, only as far as Cairns, but I know people who have both been and worked there. I have though, Read more

  • Yer’ung – Spirit Tree

    Darren Charlwood, a Wiradjuri artist, unveiled his breath-taking sculpture at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney to kick-start #NAIDOCWeek. The artwork was welcomed by a First Nations Elder and traditional smoking ceremony. It tells the story of Sydney and embodies a Welcome to Country on Gadigal land. The sculpture is titled Yer’ung – Spirit Tree and Read more

  • Doubles Disaster: Ash Barty Tennis Camp Diaries #1 – Ash Barty, Jasmin McGaughey. Illustrated by Jade Goodwin.

    Harper Collins Australia July 2024 Your junior readers who have been gobbling up the Little Ash series are going to go nuts when they see this and realise that a whole new series, another step up the reading ladder, is happening! Ash is very excited that she’s been chosen to go to her first tennis Read more

  • Walking Together – Coral Vass/Dub Leffler

    Scholastic Australia July 2024 ISBN: 9781761126260 ISBN-10: 1761126261 RRP: $26.99 There would be few of us who don’t know the power of the collaboration between Coral Vass and Dub Leffler – who hasn’t used Sorry Day in their cultural awareness units? And here we are, with our Reconciliation Week theme of Now More Than Ever, and our Read more

  • Yirrkala Bark Petitions

    The Yirrkala Bark Petitions are a series of petitions from the Yolngu people to the Commonwealth government. They are seen as the first documents that joined Indigenous Lore with Commonwealth Law as the petitions are the first traditional documents to have been recognised by the Commonwealth Parliament. The Yolngu people are the people of Yirrkala Read more