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Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • The Wild One – Sonya Hartnett/Lucia Masciullo

    Published:24/09/2014 Format:Hardback, 32 pages RRP:$24.99 price:AUD $24.99 ISBN-13:9780670076970 ISBN-10:067007697X Origin:Australia Publisher:Penguin Aus. Imprint:Viking This is a seemingly simple story of the passage of time for one young boy who meets the ‘wild one’ as a child. Yet there is much more than the thread of the cycle of life to this book. Charlie and the Read more

  • The Soldier’s Gift – Tony Palmer and Jane Tanner

    Published:23/07/2014 Format:Hardback, 40 pages RRP:$26.99 price:AUD $26.99 ISBN-13:9780670077571 ISBN-10:0670077577 Origin:Australia Publisher:Penguin Aus. Imprint:Viking This beautiful book, another published with timely consideration for the Anzac Centenary, arrived in our library at the start of 4th term and we all unanimously loved it for many reasons. Firstly the well-considered textured ‘retro’ style cover which instantly evokes stories Read more

  • Meet Nancy Bird Walton – Grace Atwood/Harry Slaghekke

    ISBN: 9780857983879 Published: 01/10/2014 Imprint: Random House Australia Children’s Extent: 32 pages What a pleasure it has been for me to review several books now from the Meet.. series, the latest being this wonderful illustrated biography of Nancy Bird Walton, one of my childhood idols as the epitome of what (Australian!) girls can achieve. From the age of 13 Read more

  • Happy New Reading Year!

    Yes I am a few days late in saying it but Happy New Year and thank you to followers of this blog – both the ones who have been doing so for a while and so many new ones who have just started in the past couple of weeks.  I have scads of books piled Read more

  • Henry Lawson Treasury – illustrated by Oslo Davis

    Random House Australia ISBN: 9780857985132 Published: 03/11/2014 Imprint: Random House Australia Children’s Extent: 160 pages RRP $19.99 I grew up with a dad who loved both Lawson and Paterson and I loved them too. Standard party pieces were recitations from these two legendary Australian writers. And now, we are able to introduce the ‘Poet of the People’ to a Read more

  • Monsters Love Underpants – Claire Freedman and Ben Cort

    Simon & Schuster Australia Simon & Schuster UK | 32 pages | ISBN 9781847385710 | October 2014 RRP AU$ 19.99 NZ$ 21.99 Now I’m not entirely sure exactly how much you know about monsters, or indeed underpants, but I will bet you didn’t know how completely inseparable these two are! Can’t you just hear the Read more

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