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Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Backyard – Ananda Braxton-Smith & Lizzy Newcomb

    Walker Books Australia ISBN: 9781925381177 Imprint: Black Dog Books Release Date: August 1, 2018 Australian RRP: $24.99 New Zealand RRP: $27.99 As educators we are always seeking new ways to switch on our youngsters to awareness and a responsibility towards the environment and we sometimes overlook the smaller picture for the larger. This book with its focus on the amazing Read more

  • Maya & Cat – Caroline Magerl

    Walker Books Australia ISBN: 9781921977282 Release Date: August 1, 2018 Australian RRP: $24.99 New Zealand RRP: $27.99 Throughout our college and certainly in my library at present we are having a great focus on kindness and empathy. With my little people I am using a range of picture books which offer this theme that also feature animals as this Read more

  • Other Worlds #3 & #4 – George Ivanoff

      Penguin Random House RRP $14.99 #3 Game World 9780143786238 May 28, 2018 Random House Australia Children’s   George’s new series will be just as popular as his previous offerings I predict and this one particularly is clearly going to have huge appeal to the ‘gamers’ in your reading audience. Hall is not very special Read more

  • The Girl Who Thought Her Mother was a Mermaid – Tania Unsworth

    Harper Collins Australia ISBN: 9781788547796 ISBN 10: 1788547799 Imprint: Head Of Zeus – Zehpyr – GB On Sale: 24/09/2018 RRP $14.99 This is a quite lovely blending of old selkie folklore, fairy tale and a young girl’s search for her own true self as well as her lost mother. Stella feels she is always the odd one out and Read more

  • Max Champion and the Great Race Car Robbery – Alexander McCall-Smith

    Bloomsbury Children’s 9781408886137 July 2018 RRP:  $19.99 Alexander McCall-Smith has long been a favoured writer for adults for me – in fact I’m listening to one of his audio books in the daily commute at present. I’ve bought several of the young Precious series for the library as so many of my Juniors just love Read more

  • Just a Girl – Jackie French

      Harper Collins Australia         ISBN: 9781460753095   ISBN 10: 1460753097   August 2018 RRP: $16.99 Hail Mary, Full of Grace, The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. I’m not a Catholic – and though I was raised an Anglican I am not particularly religious in Read more

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