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  • A Beginner’s Guide to Bear Spotting – Michelle Robinson/David Roberts

    Published: March 2016 ISBN: 9781681190266 Imprint: Bloomsbury USA Childrens RRP $22.99 We all know that kids love offbeat humour and this is certainly a book that will tick that box. Bear spotting is a tricky business so if you’re going searching you need to be prepared with all the information required.   For example did Read more

  • I Knew You Were Trouble A Jessie Jefferson Novel By Paige Toon

      Simon & Schuster Children’s UK | 336 pages | ISBN 9781471118807 | November 2015 List Price AU$ 16.99 NZ$ 18.99   The second in a series this is a light read for your senior girl readers. Full to the brim of parties, jetset lifestyles, rock and roll and hot boys this will appeal to Read more

  • Somebody Stop Ivy Pocket – Caleb Krisp/illustrated by John Kelly

    ISBN:9781408858677 Publisher:Bloomsbury Imprint:Bloomsbury Child June 2016 RRP $14.99 That irritating and insufferable Ivy, Child Blunder extraordinaire, is back with another hair and eyebrow raising adventure. Half dead and now living with a sinister and secretive pair of undertakers who purport to be her new ‘parents’, Ivy is on a mission to save her dead friend Read more

  • Kiss It Better -Smriti Prasadam-Halls, illustrated by Sarah Massini

    Allen & Unwin ISBN:9781408845622 Publisher:Bloomsbury Imprint:Bloomsbury Child Pub Date:February 2016 $22.99   Everybody needs kisses. In our house there are plenty to share for any reason or none at all. This charming book shares the special sweetness of family kisses for young readers with a lilting rhyming text and a gorgeous family of bears. Little Read more

  • Hattie Helps Out – Davina Bell & Jane Godwin/Freya Blackwood

    ISBN:9781743435434 Publisher:Allen & Unwin Imprint:A & U Children Pub Date:March 2016 RRP $24.99   This is a delightful story to which young readers will easily relate. Hattie loves to help out and she thinks she is very good at it. Baby Lottie is not so much of a help but that’s not her fault. One Read more

  • The Family with Two Front Doors – Anna Ciddor

    ISBN:9781925266641 Publisher:Allen & Unwin Imprint:A & U Children Pub Date:March 2016 RRP $14.99   To take one’s own family history and turn it into a delightful, amusing and engaging story takes a real talent. Anna Ciddor has done so with this wonderful tale of family warmth, traditions and insight. Inspired by her grandmother’s stories Anna Read more

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