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  • RFDS Adventures #4 & #5 – George Ivanoff

      Fast Flight (RFDS #4) Random House Australia ISBN: 9780857988829 Published: 02/05/2016 Imprint: Random House Australia Children’s RRP $14.99   Young Dillon is pretty much like any other boy of his age. He loves his cricket, his room is always pretty messy and he likes hanging with his best mate Jay. Pretty much the only thing that sets Read more

  • Clementine Rose and the Paris Puzzle (#12) – Jacqueline Harvey

    Random House Australia ISBN: 9780857987884 Published: 27/06/2016 Imprint: Random House Australia Children’s   RRP $14.99 With great timing for Bastille Day favourite of many Clementine Rose is off to Paris with her family – both the old and the new (following the engagement of her mother Clarissa and Drew). Clemmie is beside herself with excitement not only because Read more

  • Yong : the journey of an unworthy son – Janeen Brian

    ISBN: 9781925126297 Imprint: WALKER BOOKS AUST Distributor: Harper Collins Distribution Services for Australia and New Zealand August 1, 2016 RRP $16.99 There have been many accounts of the Chinese coming to Australia in the gold rush era both for adults and children but this is the first I have read which explores the history of some of these Read more

  • Bee & Me – Alison Jay

    Walker Books Australia Imprint: Old Barn Books July 2016 ISBN 9781910646052 RRP $24.99 When an exhausted bee flew into Alison Jay’s studio she revived it with some sugary water and the genesis of this beautiful book was underway. A wordless story about friendship and a gentle introduction to an important ecological issue, this is an Read more

  • Steve Goes to Carnival – Joshua Button & Robyn Wells

    Magabala Books Published: Jul 2016 ISBN: 9781925360219 RRP $24.95   What a joyous feel-good book this is! I suppose to be honest I wasn’t expecting a book from Magabala to be about a gorilla in Rio – but why not?! Steve is a gorilla and he lives in a zoo in Rio. His favourite person Read more

  • A Hungry Lion or a Dwindling Assortment of Animals – Lucy Ruth Cummins

    Simon & Schuster Atheneum Books for Young Readers | 40 pages | ISBN 9781471147074 May 2016   There once was a hungry lion, a penguin (Well he was just here…), a little calico kitten (I could have sworn I just saw him…), a brown mouse (Now wait a second…), a bunny with floppy ears and Read more

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