Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe



  • Term 3 Displays

    We’ve really been upping our game with displays this year in my library we believe. But this term we’re really having some fun. As soon as I was aware of Josh Langley’s latest book in his Being You is Enough series (reviewed yesterday here) Being Wildly Kind and certainly seeing his bee accoutrements as he Read more

  • Being You is Enough series- Josh Langley

    Big Sky Publishing RRP: $14.99 It was such a joy to become connected with the uber-talented Josh Langley online earlier this year and to discover his own magical brand of positivity, particularly as it applies to children. It’s taken a while but this week I received the four books in his amazingly successful series and Read more

  • Oddity – Eli Brown

    Walker Books May 2021 ISBN: 9781406389272Imprint: WalkerDistributor: Walker Australia-HEDS Australian RRP: $18.99New Zealand RRP: $21.99 I read this well over a month ago and have been talking it up big time to my readers, especially my ChocLit group but hadn’t yet written the review. Not because I didn’t absolutely love it but because, really, it is so completely unique in Read more

  • Heroes, Rebels and Innovators – Karen Wyld. Illustrated by Jaelyn Biumaiwai.

    Hachette July 2021 ISBN: 9780734419835 RRP: $26.99 As NAIDOC 2021 draws to a close, this is such an important book to share with you, examining as it does the lives and incredible actions of seven inspirational First Australian heroes. Each of these amazing Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander figures contributed in immensely important ways to Read more

  • The Shadow Arts – Damien Love

    Bloomsbury July 2021 Imprint: Rock the Boat ISBN: 9780861540860 RRP: $14.99 A few months ago, Alex’s world changed forever. Now, just when it seems life is almost getting back to normal, his grandfather crashes back into the picture with grave news…Innocent lives –  even history itself – could be at stake. Monstrous Devices was one Read more