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The ANZAC Billy – Claire Saxby/Mark Jackson & Heather Potter
Walker Books ISBN: 9781925126815 Imprint: Black Dog Books Release Date: April 1, 2019 Australian RRP: $24.99 New Zealand RRP: $27.99 As thousands of Australians and New Zealanders pay homage to those who have given to our countries in service, often with the ultimate sacrifice, this is not only a timely release for this time of year but for all Read more
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Grace’s Mystery Seed – Juliet M Sampson/Karen Erasmus
Ford St Publishing March 2019 $16.95 Have you ever had your children (or grandies) garden with you? I used to garden with my girls and now I have my beautiful granddaughter growing up here also loving planting and watching things grow. She especially loved planting radish seeds to spell her name and only having to Read more
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Holiday Hiatus
Normally, the school holidays are an opportunity to really power on with my reading and reviews. However, two days before the end of term I found out that my lease of six years is not being re-offered. This means I’m spending my holidays sorting, packing, house hunting and all the blah that goes with all Read more
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This is Home: Essential Australian Poems for Children – Selected by Jackie French, Illustrated by Tania McCartney
Publisher: National Library of Australia ISBN: 9780642279385 01 April 2019 RRP: $34.99 Why yes, some readers of this blog will already know that not only am I non-fiction nerd since childhood but also a poetry nerd. I openly admit this to the children at school who are sometimes a little (?!) resistant to poetry. Of course, Read more
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All Are Welcome – Alexandra Penfold/Suzanne Kaufman
Bloomsbury Australia February 2019 ISBN: 9781526604071 Imprint: Bloomsbury Children RRP: $14.99 I deliberately saved this one to time with Harmony Day since it is a perfect expression of what we want to convey to our children as they grow up in a world where so many adults are blindly ignorant of the true meaning of Read more
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Animal Crackers
Now that the pile of review novels is finally getting to a stage that could be described as semi-tamed, it’s time to get stuck into plethora picture books. So here are some animal-focused ones to get into – because we all know that our little readers just love a great animal story and Read more
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