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Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • 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

  • Out of My Mind – Sharon Draper

    Simon & Schuster Australia Atheneum Books for Young Readers | 320 pages | ISBN 9781416971719 | August 2013 | Grades 5 and up | Lexile 700 List Price AU$ 11.99 NZ$ 13.99   This is an older title which I have only just read and if you loved ‘Wonder’ (R. J. Palacio) you will also love Read more

  • Not a book – a movie

    Many of you will have read articles particularly fairly recently about the real life bear who inspired A. A. Milne’s classic stories about Winnie-the-Pooh. A recently published picture book sparked some of these. I was so delighted to pick up the DVD of the movie ‘A Bear Named Winnie’ at the local  Km*** last Friday Read more

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