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Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • For the Tiny Humans

    Find Spot: an Australian Adventure Penguin Australia July 2023 ISBN: 9780241618127 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $14.99 Your littlest people will love this colourful new board book with a fresh Spot adventure, especially as it’s set in Australia. Mum, Dad and Spot are camping and as they explore billabong and surrounds, they encounter some lovely Australian wildlife like… Read more

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  • Scar Town – Tristan Bancks

    Penguin Australia August 2023 ISBN: 9780143791812 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $16.99 I’ve been a fan of Tristan’s work since back in the Mac Slater days, especially after attending one of his presentations on making book trailers (can’t even remember which event that was, it was so long ago!) and I’ve particularly loved his ‘crime/thriller’ books – like a… Read more

  • The Welcome to Country Handbook: a guide to Indigenous Australia – Professor Marcia Langton

    Hardie Grant June 2023 ISBN: 9781741178227 Publisher: Hardie Grant Explore RRP: $32.99 Professor Langton’s Welcome to Country, now in its 2nd edition, was hailed as a major comprehensive work on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia: culture, customs, history, etiquette, performance and more. Now we have this fantastic companion volume which draws on the information… Read more

  • Walking in Gagudju Country: exploring the monsoon forest – Diane Lucas, Ben Tyler and Emma Long

    Allen & Unwin June 2021 ISBN:9781760525958 Awards: Shortlisted, Five to Eight Years, Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards, 2021, AU Shortlisted, Eve Pownall Award, CBCA Awards, 2022, AU Shortlisted, CBCA Award for New Illustrator, CBCA Awards, 2022, AU Shortlisted, Wilderness Society Karajia and Environment Award for Children’s Literature, 2022, AU Highly Commended, Best Primary… Read more

  • Reaching Through Time – Shauna Bostock

    Allen & Unwin July 2023 ISBN: 9781761067983 RRP: $34.99 I’ve been reading this over the past week and I have to tell you, this book will just blow you away. As you might expect, I know a bit about the dispossession, the brutal treatment, the attempted eradication of language and culture, the eugenics that were… Read more

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