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Britannica All New Children’s Encyclopedia
What We Know and What We Don’t Walker Books September 2025 Imprint: Britannica Books ISBN13: 9781804661499 Australia RRP: $64.99 New Zealand RRP: $67.99 Last year I reviewed another of Christopher Lloyd’s amazing fat-as-mud books of EVERYTHING and it was just great. This is an updated edition of the Children’s Brittanica which went totally gangbusters on Read more
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Lexie Moon & the Space Day Disaster – Melissa Garside and Lauren Mullinder
Riveted Press August 2025 Distributed by Simon & Schuster ISBN13: 9781764007115 RRP: AU$ 12.99 / NZ$ 14.99 I’m quite sure that your young readers, those who are just starting to gobble up chapter books, will have really enjoyed the first Lexie Moon adventure. This is a great series for those kiddos just hitting their straps Read more
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Hannah Backwards – Kim Rackham
I think this is very possibly the first verse novel for younger readers I’ve come across to review, and I think it will be very popular with many of them. Much of the action in this narrative is eminently relatable to many kiddos. The worries that beset them, the losses they meet with, making mistakes Read more
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FYI – Teaching notes etc
Due to diminishing space on the blog and archiving older reviews onto Substack, I am now also moving many of the Freebies files such as teaching notes, programs etc. You can find them at Just So Stories Archive along with a growing number of reviews from years past. It is a work in progress!! One Read more
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It’s a Sean E. Avery Special
These two books have been languishing in the PBs’ tubs for way too long. But news of Sean’s recent visit to Canberra [so jelly of all my friends there who got to see him] has guilted me into attending to them pronto. And after all, Sean is a thoroughly nice guy it seems. When I Read more
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