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Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Five Children on the Western Front – Kate Saunders

    Allen & Unwin Australia ISBN: 9780571310951 Australian Pub.: November 2014 Publisher: Faber Imprint: Faber Child Trade Subject: Children’s fiction Suitable for ages: 9-12 If you, like me, love E. Nesbit’s Five Children and It stories, then this new book will thoroughly delight you. Time has passed and the children are grown up – well the Read more

  • RealReads: All Quiet on the Western Front & The 39 Steps

    I am not sure how others may be using these retold classics from RealReads but they have now published dozens of titles across a wide range of authors and genres, and have sales in excess of 280,000 in many different countries. There is certainly an argument that these condensed retellings with their illustrations, notes and Read more

  • The Beastly Pirates – John Kelly

    Allen & Unwin Australia Bloomsbury Children Imprint February 2015 ISBN 9781408849859 RRP $14.99 Shiver the timbers of your younger readers with this wonderfully witty and rollicking rhyming story about the scurviest pirates you’ve ever encountered! This just begs to be read aloud with lots and lots of vocal expression. It is chockful of onomatopoeia and Read more

  • Stormy Night – Salina Yoon

    Allen & Unwin Australia Bloomsbury February 2015-01-25 RRP $15.99 There is a little person here who has had a great deal of anxiety about storms, since a very severe one a couple of months particularly.  This fear has been diminishing with some careful support but this wonderful book could not have been timelier or better Read more

  • House of Robots #1- James Patterson

    Random House Australia ISBN: 9780099568278 Published: 01/12/2014 Imprint: Arrow (Young) Extent: 352 pages RRP $15.99 There is no doubt that James Patterson must rank as one of the most highly successful authors of our times. His adult novels have always attracted huge readership and now he is simply tearing away with his books for children. I’ve now been lucky Read more

  • I Was Here – Gayle Forman

    Simon & Schuster 288 pages | ISBN 9781471124396 | February 2015 List Price AU$ 19.99 NZ$ 21.99 Many of you will already be familiar with Gayle Forman’s If I Stay – either the book or the blockbuster movie, or indeed her other work. Having been pretty much focused on YA for boys for the past Read more

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