Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • 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

  • Marge in Charge Isla Fisher, illustrated by Eglantine Ceulemans

      Allen & Unwin Australia ISBN 9781848125339 Publisher:Bonnier Imprint:Piccadilly Books Pub Date:August 2016 RRP $14.99 Comedian, actress, mother and now author, Isla Fisher takes domestic anarchy to a new level with these stories about a baby sitter who is definitely not average. Jemima and Jake do not want a new babysitter. They especially don’t want Read more

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