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  • Rain on the Rock – Jodie Toering. Illustrated by Valerie Brumby.

    Hardie Grant January 2025 ISBN:9781760509880 Price:AU$27.99, NZ$30.99 Imprint:Hardie Grant Children’s PublishingPublish Date:Jan 29th, 2025 Rising above the desert plain, Uluṟu stands,ancient feet planted deep within the dry red earth.For much of the year, Uluṟu bakes in the kuḻi.But on rare days when rain-song beats,waterfalls cascade down the rock,creatures stir …and Uluṟu and Kata Tjuṯa burst Read more

  • Tubowgule – a Sydney Opera House History – Melissa-Jane Fogarty. Illustrated by Dylan Finney.

    Hachette Australia Imprint: Lothian Books March 2025 9780734423351 | RRP $24.99 I’m old enough to have walked on Bennelong Point before the Opera House was built, and then walk around the construction site as the sails rose ever higher [not much WHS in those days, no fencing around the site!] picking up bits of broken white tile. Read more

  • Young Dark Emu: a Truer History – Bruce Pascoe

    Imprint: Magabala Books Hachette Books February 2025 ISBN: 9781922777508 RRP: $29.99 Eleven years ago this month, I had the great pleasure of reading and reviewing Dark Emu – Blackseeds: Accident or Agriculture? for Magabala and in that review, I commented on how much new information I gleaned from this detailed and knowledge-based account from a Read more

  • March Wrap-up

    It’s been another busy month for reading, with more books arriving daily! Punctuated by The Kid’s 20th birthday!! some surf and beach, and catch ups with friends. Read more

  • Kicking off April…

    I’m hoping lots of people are already planning for this year’s NAIDOC week – I’ll be sharing as many new resources and ideas as possible over the next couple of months. I’ve already got my new t-shirt! How about you?? Meanwhile stand by for a week of new First Nations titles coming up. These are Read more

  • The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest – Aubrey Hartman

    Walker Books Australia May 2025 ISBN:9781761601453 RRP: $17.99/New Zealand RRP:$19.99 Now, how to describe this delightfully quirky and sometimes dark quasi-horror with heart? It’s a little bit My Dead Rabbit, maybe a little bit Coraline, and a little bit The Graveyard Book. And then there’s A Girl Called Corpse – and soon you will get Read more

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