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Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Barney and the Secret of the Whales – Jackie French

    ISBN: 9780732299446 ISBN 10: 0732299446 Imprint: HarperCollins – AU On Sale: 01/02/2016 Pages: 144 List Price: 12.99 AUD   Is there any other author who has such a deft hand at bringing Australian history alive for young readers as Jackie French? It appears this much –loved and well-respected writer is unsurpassed in this particular genre (not to mention all her other Read more

  • Skite moment

    Ok, she modestly says…….so a certain author whose book I loved and reviewed accordingly has just messaged me and said that I am quoted on the back page of the new book (2nd in the series) and that he is sending me a signed copy – thank you so much Dc Green (have I mentioned Read more

  • Hello, Goodbye & Everything in Between – Jennifer E. Smith

    Hachette Australia ISBN:9781472235565 Publication date:26 Apr 2016 Page count:256 Imprint:Headline RRP $19.99 If, like me, you have often struggled to find a romance for tweens without graphic or inappropriate content, this is one to put on your list. From the author of The Statistical Probability of Love at First and The Geography of You and Read more

  • Clementine Rose and the Special Promise #11 – Jacqueline Harvey

    Random House Australia ISBN: 9780857987860 Published: 04/01/2016   RRP $14.99 Clemmie Rose is such a favourite around here and as I well know with many little girls. This is the new volume so many of us were waiting for as finally a marriage proposal is in the air! However there are some other complications to mar such Read more

  • Royal Flying Doctor Service Series – George Ivanoff

      Oh George! These are just fabulous! How often have we looked for really engaging thoroughly Australian adventure stories that will work for both boys and girls? And with this new series you have totally nailed a gap in the collections of many – well done! The stories are true to life and written in Read more

  • Friday Barnes: #4 No Rules – R. A. Spratt

    ISBN: 9780857987013 Published: 04/01/2016 Imprint: Random House Australia Children’s RRP – $15.99 The increasingly popular nerdy detective, Friday Barnes, makes her fourth appearance in this latest instalment filled with even more mayhem and mysteries. To begin with Friday is rather surprisingly deported to Switzerland for lack of proper citizenship documents. Not surprisingly this is because her irritatingly vague Read more

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