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Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Diary of a Basketball Hero –Shamini Flint

    ISBN: 9781760111502 Australian Pub.: January 2015 Publisher: Allen & Unwin Imprint: A & U Children Suitable for ages: 7-11 The popularity of this series was very evident last year with my Year 5 boys. Written in an illustrative diary style by Marcus the main character, they tell of the poor boy’s trials and tribulations in Read more

  • The Girl from Sandy Desert – Jukuna Mona Chuguna and Pat Lowe illustrated by Mervyn Street

    Magabala Books Published:Feb 2015 Pages:112 ISBN:9781922142054 Ages:Upper primary Format:Paperback RRP $16.99 This is a quite different book very suitable for Upper Primary/Middle School with firsthand accounts of traditional indigenous desert life told through the eyes of a young Walmajarri girl, Mana. Pat Lowe is an Englishwoman who moved to Broome in 1979, fulfilling a lifelong Read more

  • Love Always Everywhere – Sarah Massini

    ISBN: 9780857632494 Australian Pub.: January 2015 Publisher: Nosy Crow Imprint: Nosy Crow Suitable for ages: 2-5 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways… Well, let me see……… Loud Quiet Shy Proud Lose Miss Giggle Hug And several others……!! What a delightful book to share with little ‘uns. Expressive illustrations matched with minimal Read more

  • The Book with No Pictures – B. J. Novak

    Penguin Australia Published:17/11/2014 Format: Hardback, 48 pages price: AUD $19.99 ISBN-13:9780141361789 ISBN-10:0141361786 Publisher: Penguin UK Imprint: Puffin Well, you all know it goes. You hear so much hype about a book (or a movie, or a theatrical show blah blah blah) that you almost convince yourself that either you won’t like it or it will Read more

  • 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

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