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Boy Giant: Son of Gulliver – Michael Morpurgo
Harper Collins September 2019 ISBN: 9780008347925 ISBN 10: 0008347921 Imprint: HarperCollins – GB List Price: 19.99 AUD And the master has done it again! Morpurgo has drawn on Jonathon Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels as his inspiration for this latest exploration of human nature, political unrest and compassion. Omar has fled war-torn Afghanistan with his mother in a race for survival. Read more
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The Secret Commonwealth – Philip Pullman
The Book of Dust Volume Two Published: 3 October 2019 ISBN: 9780241373347 Imprint: Penguin and David Fickling Books Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 784 RRP: $32.99 Surely one of the most highly anticipated sequels ever – or was that just me? (I don’t think so!) I wasn’t sure what to expect but it wasn’t this – and I mean that in a Read more
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A postscript to my review of Beverly, Right Here
If you read my review of Kate diCamillo’s latest novel Beverly, Right Here you will know how excited it made me that my girl was reading it. She has kept on going all these past weeks and today I came home from school to this. My heart is full! Read more
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Christmas fun for littlies
As the weeks go rushing past and in no time it will be time to hang the stockings we all seem to go into a kind of frenzy of ‘what to get for..?’. There are some very cute new books for little people which would make great stocking stuffers: Peppa’s Christmas Jumper Day Penguin Read more
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Alice-Miranda Movie Madness
Fans across the country are champing at the bit as the debut of everyone’s favourite schoolgirl on screen approaches. To celebrate the long-awaited and much-anticipated film version Penguin Australia has some super new goodies for all those A-M devotees. Keep the A-M magic flowing for your readers with these fabulous new additions to the Read more
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Fauna: Australia’s Most Curious Creatures – Tania McCartney
National Library of Australia November 2019 ISBN: 9780642279545 RRP: $24.99 Where to begin with this absolutely glorious book? Once again Tania has created a jewel of colour and style with her distinctive stylised illustrations and combined with information both fascinating and amazing this is a treasure for readers of all ages. The wealth of facts Read more
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