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  • Bill Baillie: The Life and Adventures of a Pet Bilby – Ellis Rowan

    Publisher:   National Library of Australia Edition:   1st Edition ISBN:   9780642279200 Publication Date:   01 March 2018 RRP: $24.99   Aptly in time for Easter (Bilbies not Bunnies!!) this is a beautiful abridged adaptation of Ellis Rowan’s fictionalised account of the little orphan bilby she raised and kept as a pet. The original was published in 1908 as Read more

  • Libby in the Middle – Gwyneth Rees

    Bloomsbury Australia Published: 01-01-2018 ISBN: 9781408852774 Imprint: Bloomsbury Children’s Books RRP $12.99   As my Kim would tell you being the middle of three girls is not a piece of cake for much of the time.  Libby is finding this truer than ever. Her older sister Bella, who used to be great company, is now Read more

  • The Thunderbolt Pony –Stacey Gregg

    Harper Collins Australia ISBN:9780008257019 ISBN 10: 0008257019 Imprint: HarperCollins – GB September 2017 RRP $26.99   Stacey Gregg’s series of which this is the fifth has been a stellar hit with my ‘horsey girls’. And though I’m not particularly horsey myself (aside from paying for Miss Small’s passion) I have thoroughly enjoyed them as well as each Read more

  • My Brigidista Year – Katherine Paterson

    Penguin Random House Candlewick  Press October 2017 RRp $16.99 ISBN 978-0-7636-9508-8 Winner of the Newbery Medal on two occasions, Katherine Paterson is a superb writer for children and now turns her hand to a historical narrative born out of personal interest. For many outside of America, including me, there is a scant knowledge of Castro’s Read more

  • My Australia – Julie Murphy/Garry Fleming

    National Library of Australia April 2018 9780642279163 RRP $24.99 Those of us of a certain vintage will have vivid memories of learning off by heart Dorothea MacKellar’s famous poem My Country at school. For many I guess it may have been a trial but for me it was a joy, not least of all because Read more

  • Barney and the Secret of the French Spies – Jackie French

    Harper Collins Australia ISBN: 9781460751305 ISBN 10: 1460751302 On Sale: 22/01/2018 List Price: 14.99 AUD Another gripping episode in the story of Barney and Elsie, providing readers with more insight into the early days of the European colony in Sydney and NSW and I’m so excited that next term I’m using Birrung the Secret Friend with my Year 4s Read more

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