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Board books for Smalls
Little Miss Daisy is just about too big now for board books, but I’m so happy to be able to share these ones with her before that cut-off! Wibble, Wobble, Walk! – Mike Dumbleton & Sarah Boese Little Book Press Distributed by Simon & Schuster June 2025 ISBN: 9781923141285 RRP: $AU$ 14.99 / NZ$ 29.99… Read more
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The Remembered Soldier
Anjet Daanje (trans. David McKay) Scribe Publications June 2025 ISBN (13):9781761380136 RRP:$37.99 Ok, so I haven’t actually read this one yet but putting in the deets for you all to finish off this week of tributes for the 80th Anniversary. This is a mammoth book – almost 600 pages – and I just haven’t had… Read more
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The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: Lynne Olsen
How an intrepid band of Frenchwomen resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s all-female concentration camp Scribe Publications July 2025 ISBN (13):9781761381461 RRP:$36.99 My confession here is that I’ve had this for ages, well and truly long before its release date, and it’s been on my bedside table as I dip in and out of it, book-cheating… Read more
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Yoko’s Diary – by Paul Ham. Translated by Debbie Edwards.
Harper Collins Australia July 2025 ISBN: 9780733344091 ISBN 10: 0733344097 Imprint: ABC Books AU List Price: 22.99 AUD SHORTLISTED in the 2014 CBCA Awards SHORTLISTED in the 2014 NSW Premier’s History Awards I’m embarrassed to say that though I’ve had this book in every single one of my primary libraries, as far as I can recall, I had never… Read more
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The Mushroom in the Sky – Jackie French
Harper Collins Australia July 2025 ISBN: 9781460766057 ISBN 10: 1460766059 Imprint: HarperCollins AU RRP: $17.99 If there’s anything more exciting than new Jackie French historical fiction, it’s getting your hands on it before anyone else and writing teaching notes for it. In light of the 80th Anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing coming up (and ergo, the end of… Read more
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Anna’s War – DJ Taylor
Riveted Press Simon & Schuster July 2025 ISBN13: 9781763526075 RRP: AU$ 17.99 / NZ$ 19.99 Aside from, of course, Anne Frank’s diary I knew very little about life for the Dutch during the war. I did glean some from Tulips for Breakfast when I read and reviewed it. But this astonishing debut novel from DJ… Read more
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