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  • Pack your bags – we’re going on a trip!

      Tania McCartney and Tina Snerling EK Publishing RRP $19.99 Tania and Tina have once again triumphed as they continue their “A Kid’s Year Series”.  Children are celebrated and cultures, customs and festivities are explored in each book via the group of children featured.  What an absolutely marvellous way for us to spread the joy Read more

  • Never Say Die – Alex Rider

    Walker Books Australia ISBN: 9781406377040 June 1, 2017 Australian RRP: $16.99 New Zealand RRP: $18.99 How absolutely apt that as we mourn the loss of the suavest Bond of them all – vale Sir Roger Moore – the new Alex Rider explodes into our reading lives with every bit of excitement that we have come to anticipate from Read more

  • The Adventures of Miss Petitfour –    Anne Michaels. With illustrations by Emma Block

    Allen & Unwin ISBN: 9781408868058 Imprint: Bloomsbury Childrens May 2017-05-20 RRP $14.99 The second delicious instalment of Miss Petitfour’s adventures has arrived and is every bit as delightful as the first. Who could possibly resist this unique individual and her ‘furry rope’ of cats? With first an introduction to Miss P and her numerous feline Read more

  • The Fall – Tristan Bancks

    9780143783053 May 29, 2017 Random House Australia Children’s RRP $16.99   Well, after much impatient anticipation I could just say ‘WOW’! But that’s hardly the review this new action-packed novel deserves so I shall continue. Tristan has a superlative ability to write everyday all-too-human imperfect characters and transform them into inspirational heroes. Sam has never Read more

  • Letters to the Lost – Brigid Kemmerer

    Allen & Unwin ISBN:9781408883525 Publisher: Bloomsbury UK Imprint :Bloomsbury Child March 2017 RRP $16.99 Juliet’s mother died in a terrible hit-and-run accident. On her way home from yet another international photography mission documenting the heartbreak of war zones and disasters, she returned early at Juliet’s request and on her way from the airport was suddenly Read more

  • Engaging Adolescents- Michael Hawton

    Exisle Publishing May 2017 ISBN  9781925335408 RRP $29.99 You know those shows on TV about history’s worst jobs? I reckon parenting teenagers should be heavily featured! Yes, I’ve raised three girls – only with moderate success, doing the best I could, with what I had and lots of tantrums/screaming matches/exhausting emotions – and now, raising Read more

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