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Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Amped! Carving it up with DC Green – a blog Q&A that’s choka!

    Ohmigosh! Q&A with the wonderful DC Green – grommet, writer, entertainer, cat-herder, friend, guy with panache…………..and all round Good Guy. Tell us about the young DC – what were you like as a kid, what did you like doing, where you grew up, how naughty you were? Young DC would be devastated to learn that Read more

  • Little People, Big Dreams series

      Walker Books A new series to me – and the first two that I’ve seen fit the “Mighty Girl” criteria perfectly. Easy to read biographies with simple text, interesting illustrations plus facts and photos at the end of each these are eminently suited to young readers from as young as six upwards. Amelia Earhart Read more

  • Fabish: the Horse that Braved a Bushfire – Neridah McMullin/Andrew McLean

    ISBN: 9781925266863 Allen & Unwin Imprint: A & U Children August 2016 RRP $24.99   When we read of the most calamitous events in history it is the displays of courage and heroism that lift us up from despair and provide us with hopefulness for the future. In many cases it is the bravery of Read more

  • The Shark Caller – Dianne Wolfer

    Random House Australia ISBN: 9780143780557 Published: 01/08/2016 Imprint: Random House Australia Children’s   RRP $17.99 I have never been to Papua New Guinea but strangely I have had so many numerous vicarious experiences with this near neighbour.  I have, particularly in the last few years, met so many people who have lived or worked in PNG and I Read more

  • So Wrong – Michael Wagner and Wayne Bryant

      Billy Goat Books August 2016 ISBN 9780994251756 RRP $14.99   Having a problem reaching those reluctant readers? Well I guess we all have at times. So how to solve the problem is the question. Put a fiendishly naughty author and illustrator together and watch them create what can only be described as outrageously subversive Read more

  • Be a Friend – Salina Yoon

    Bloomsbury August 2016 ISBN 9781408809093 RRP $14.99   There are plenty of children who are different in some way or another and often they are subject to being ‘left out’. Dennis is quite an ordinary boy but he communicates in somewhat an extraordinary way. When his classmates do ‘show and tell’ Dennis mimes his news. Read more

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