Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • 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

  • 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

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