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Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Hattie Helps Out – Davina Bell & Jane Godwin/Freya Blackwood

    ISBN:9781743435434 Publisher:Allen & Unwin Imprint:A & U Children Pub Date:March 2016 RRP $24.99   This is a delightful story to which young readers will easily relate. Hattie loves to help out and she thinks she is very good at it. Baby Lottie is not so much of a help but that’s not her fault. One… Read more

  • The Family with Two Front Doors – Anna Ciddor

    ISBN:9781925266641 Publisher:Allen & Unwin Imprint:A & U Children Pub Date:March 2016 RRP $14.99   To take one’s own family history and turn it into a delightful, amusing and engaging story takes a real talent. Anna Ciddor has done so with this wonderful tale of family warmth, traditions and insight. Inspired by her grandmother’s stories Anna… Read more

  • Blueberry Pancakes Forever – Angelica Banks

    ISBN: 9781760110451 Publisher :Allen & Unwin Imprint: A & U Children Pub Date: June 2016 RRP $15.99   As soon as I opened the package I was bursting to read this third and last instalment in the Tuesday McGillycuddy trilogy. And so I did in one sitting, devouring it as easily and happily as Tuesday… Read more

  • Behind and running to catch up……..

    Have got several reviews to write – but have a family crisis happening – which involves a small person whose mummy is in hospital so Gran is being a working mum and juggling a whole heap of *stuff*!!! Maybe on the weekend…………Thank you to new followers – I promise I will catch up asap!! Read more

  • Sea Dog – Claire Saxby/Tom Jellet

    June 1st 2013         Random House Australia                           ISBN13: 9781742756509 With impeccable timing this delightful picture book arrived in my review parcel just as Small and I were impatiently awaiting the arrival of one small black toy poodle (anything better than being with Gran? Yes, being with Gran AND a lively little pup!). We pounced on… Read more

  • The Terrible Thing that Happened to Barnaby Brocket – John Boyne

    Barnaby Brocket is unusual – very unusual indeed. His parents on the other hand, are normal – well, they are in their own view. In fact, his parents strive so hard to be normal that they are actually quite abnormal. John Boyne’s new fable is a delightful whimsy about a boy who floats and the… Read more

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