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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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The Little Grey Girl (The Wild Magic trilogy #2) – Celine Kiernan.
Walker Australia ISBN: 9781406373929 Imprint: Walker February 1, 2019 Australian RRP: $16.99 New Zealand RRP: $18.99 I absolutely loved Begone the Raggedy Witches which was the first in this trilogy so was pretty chuffed when this second instalment arrived. The Queen and her raggedy witches have been routed and Mup’s Ma is the new queen having taken her rightful Read more
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