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  • Creature Corridors – Billie Rooney and Anke Noack

    CSIRO Publishing February 2025 | $ 26.99ISBN: 9781486318100 For kiddos who love learning about nature and our wildlife (which is most of them really), this will be not only a fun read but informative as well. Quite a few will be able to make connections to their own neighbourhoods and environs, as even in more Read more

  • Alexander’s Outing – Pamela Allen

    Penguin Australia Who hasn’t shared the love with Alexander at some point, (or many even!) over the past 30 – THIRTY!! – years? And for those of us who are Sydney girls, it has always had a special place in our reading canon. My last outing with Alexander was about a year ago with a Read more

  • Lucky – Amelia Tonta & Peter Baldwin

    For those of us who have been in library mode as long as I have, this will bring back happy memories of hilarious sessions reading A Nice Walk in the Jungle but in this new Amelia Tonta [the artist formerly known as Amelia McInerney] book, the python in question is a pet of no scruples Read more

  • Somewhere Lost – Just Write for Kids and Friends

    ISBN: 9781763670051 May 2025 RRP: $26.99 Anthology contributors include (in alphabetical order): Michèle Dodd . Hannah Friend . Daniela Glyntzos . Jade Goodwin . Carla Hoffenberg . Jennifer Horn . Lellie Lopter . Lorraine & Jessica Miller . Mietta Postlethwaite . Rachael Robertson . Romi Sharp . Nandina Vines. Congratulations to all of our contributors and all of the entrants who submitted their remarkable illustration and text pieces to Picture It! 2024! About Just Write For Kids Australia Read more

  • Koala Koala – John Williamson. Illustrated by Jonathan Bentley.

    Penguin Australia April 2025 Koala, Koala – we love youSo soft in the fork of your tree . . .Koala, Koala – where will you goIf we take your gum trees away? I’ve mentioned my association with John along with koalas previously on this blog. While my fond memory is about Goodbye Blinky Bill, Koala Read more

  • World Bee Day – bee-yootiful bonus!

    Did you know that this Tuesday, May 20th is World Bee Day?  What is World Bee Day?With more than 20,000 identified bee species in the world, and the importance of bees to the world’s environment – not least to the production of both food and oxygen, World Bee Day  was initiated on May 20th, 2017 by the Read more

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