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Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Salt Water Therapy

                              Here are four picture books all of which centre on the ocean but with very different purpose, style and execution, each of them truly lovely.   Beach Song – Ros Moriarty. Illustrated by Samantha Campbell Allen & Unwin January 2024 ISBN:9781761180248 Publisher:A&U Children’s Imprint:A & U Children RRP: $24.99 Ros Moriarty comments ‘my emotional wellbeing Read more

  • Congratulations to Sally Rippin!

    Our new Australian Laureate 2024-2025, Sally Rippin – click to find out more, especially my readers from around the world. You will learn more about Sally as well as the Australian Laureateship. Check out Sally’s extensive bibiliography here at Hardie Grant Publishing. Read more

  • Chloe’s Lunar New Year – Lily LaMotte. Illustrated by Michelle Lee

    Harper Collins Australia January 2024 While I’ve always celebrated Lunar New Year in my libraries, one in particular, where we had a significant Asian population, it was always a huge, colourful and exciting event. Having new books to share, as well as the older ones, is always welcome. This is the second new book on Read more

  • Our Australian HeART anthology – Just Write for Kids and Friends

     Daisy Lane Publishing & Just Write For Kids Australia ISBN: 9780645842722 RRP: $32.99 Contributors include: Bridget Acreman . Suzanne Barton . Melanie Corrigan . Kim de Haan . Michèle Dodd . Alisha Dyer . Naomi Eccles-Smith . Hannah Friend . Daniela Glyntzos . Imogen Hartland . Jacqui Hewlett . Carla Hoffenberg . Jennifer Horn . Lorraine & Read more

  • Stories for Big Brothers & Sisters: four beloved Australian picture books –  Jan Ormerod, Libby Gleeson, Zanni Louise. Illustrators:  Andrew Joyner, Jedda Robaard, Anna Pignataro, Sara Acton

    Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing Imprint: Little Hare Books November 2023 ISBN 9781761213205 RRP: $29.99 A perfect book to prepare a Small for the arrival of a Smaller-still, or a gift for that Small when the new little human has arrived. These are four favourite stories about siblings that are now compiled into one of the nicest Read more

  • The Daredevil Princess and the Golden Unicorn: #1 – Belinda Murrell. Illustrated by Rebecca Crane.

    Penguin Random House February 2024 Make way, make way, for Her Royal Highness, Crown Princess Mathilda Amalia Charlotte Adelaide Rose! Or, as readers will come to know her, Princess Tillie, newest character from one of our favourite authors, Belinda Murrell. The first in a brand new series especially pitched at freshly independent readers, this has Read more

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