Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe



  • Watch This Space: #1 Out to Launch – Colin Thompson

    Random House Australia ISBN: 9781742756202 Published: 01/05/2015 Imprint: Random House Australia Children’s Extent: 256 pages RRP: $15.99 Last year when I had the good fortune of a blog Q&A with Colin Thompson, following the publication of the final book about The Floods, he told us about his forthcoming series called Watch This Space and after Read more

  • Love this!

    How many have you read? Which books shaped you? http://www.buzzfeed.com/powellsbooks/37-childrens-books-that-changed-your-life-ohuo Read more

  • Stories for Simon – Lisa Miranda Sarzin & Lauren Briggs

    Random House Australia Children’s May 2015 RRP $24.99 ISBN 9780857987440 We all Stand on Sacred Ground: Learn, Respect and Celebrate – NAIDOC theme 2015   Kevin Rudd’s Apology to the Stolen Generations in February 2008 was momentous for all Australians – both Indigenous and non-Indigenous. And it is critically important that we teach our children Read more

  • Samurai vs Ninja (#1 & #2) – Nick Falk & Tony Flowers

    Samurai vs Ninja 1: The Battle for the Golden Egg – Nick Falk & Tony Flowers ISBN: 9780857986054 Published: 01/04/2015 Imprint: Random House Australia Children’s Extent: 96 pages Samurai vs Ninja 2: The Race for the Shogun’s Treasure ISBN: 9780857986368 Published: 01/04/2015 Imprint: Random House Australia Children’s Extent: 96 pages RRP: $9.99 From the dynamic duo that brought us the Billy is a Read more

  • Kookoo Kookaburra – Gregg Driese

    Magabala Books RRP $24.95 Published:May 2015 Pages:32 ISBN:9781921248900 Kindness is like a boomerang – if you throw it often, it comes back often How timely that this beautiful new picture book from this talented Sunshine Coast author/illustrator should come my way just now when my family and I have been shown so much kindness from Read more

  • ‘Summer’ Reading

    We do have holiday reading programs/incentives here but not quite in the same way I think…………As usual, a thought provoking post from the Book Whisperer.. Read more