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Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Lift and Look – Dinosaurs/Space

    Dinosaurs (Lift and Look) Published: 01-02-2016 ISBN: 9781408864067 Imprint: Bloomsbury Activity Books RRP: $12.99 Space (Lift and Look) Published: 01-02-2016 ISBN: 9781408864074 Imprint: Bloomsbury Activity Books RRP: $12.99 These beautiful sturdy board books are just an absolute delight! With large lift up flaps they are perfect for small hands and will withstand much loving re-reading. Read more

  • Rich & Rare – edited by Paul Collins

    ISBN: 978-1-925272-11-6 Publication date: October 2015 Extent: 512 pages Format: B Format paperback Price: AUD$24.95 Category: Genre fiction and poetry Age guide: 11+   This is a sumptuous and luscious smorgasbord feast for any reader, gathering delicacies supplied from Australia’s best storytellers. Our ‘young and free’ creators include: Michael Gerard Bauer, Gary Crew, Justin D’Ath, Read more

  • Curiosity House: #1 The Shrunken Head –  Lauren Oliver & H. C. Chester

    Hachette Children’s Books ISBN: 9781444777192 Publication date: 13 Oct 2015 Page count: Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton   Welcome to Dumfrey’s Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders where mysteries, oddities, freaks, adventures and creepy stuff abound! Orphans Philippa, Sam and Thomas have grown up in this strange and extraordinary place looked after by Mr Dumfrey, owner and proprietor Read more

  • The Boy with Two Lives – Abbas Kazerooni

    ISBN:9781743314838 Publisher:Allen & Unwin Imprint:A & U Children Pub Date:September 2015 RRP: $15.99   Many of you will resource units of work/inquiry examining the lives of inspirational people through biographies and memoirs. This book and the previous memoir are perfect, timely and contemporary for readers from Middle Primary upwards. This second instalment in Kazerooni’s powerful Read more

  • ABC Dreaming – Warren Brim

    Magabala Books Published:Nov 2015 ISBN:9781922142627 Format:Paperback   RRP: $17.95 I have purposely saved this one for the start of the school year believing it to the most beautiful ABC book I have seen in a long, long time and so perfect for introducing your preppies to both the alphabet, Australian flora and fauna and Indigenous Read more

  • Please Open This Book – Adam Lehrhaupt/Matthew Forsythe

    Simon & Schuster Australia List Price AU$ 24.99 NZ$ 27.99   The expression ‘more fun than a barrel of monkeys’ has never been as evident as in this crazy chaotic new picture book from the duo who brought you Warning, Do Not Open This Book!. Completely giggle-making for young readers, a bunch of monkeys plus Read more

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