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  • George the Wizard: Let Your Magic Shine! – Tony Armstrong. Illustrated by Emma Sjaan Beukers.

    Hachette Australia Imprint: Lothian September 2024 | 9780734422163 | RRP $24.99 Tony Armstrong is arguably the hottest First Nations entertainer/actor/celebrity of recent times – he certainly dazzled at the 2024 Logies despite missing out on the Gold and has had a varied, but highly successful career, from football to breakfast TV to Extra-ordinary Things to a forthcoming new Read more

  • My Dad Thinks He’s a Scream – Katrina Germein. Illustrated by Tom Jellett.

    Walker Books Australia September 2024 ISBN13:9781760655075 Australia RRP:$24.99 New Zealand RRP:$27.99 While it may have taken it’s time to reach me, it’s here right in time to witch you all a spooktacular Halloween week! I love me a good pun – and a whole book of them? – I love that even more. This is Read more

  • The Big Book of Rights – Dannika Patterson/Amanda Letcher

    Children’s Week 2024 This week the Story Bridge and other significant structures of Brisbane, were lit up with dazzling turquoise, the colours of Children’s Rights Queensland, marking a week of events, activities and actions to celebrate Children’s Week 2024. Tomorrow, 27th October, as the week draws to a close, there will be a launch of Read more

  • What I Ate in One Year (and related thoughts) – Stanley Tucci

    Penguin Australia October 2024 I have loved Stanley in every role in which I’ve seen him from Caesar/Lucky Flickerman (Hunger Games/Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) to Muertes (Undercover Blues), from Nigel (The Devil Wears Prada) to Mr Stringer (The Witches – and everything inbetween. I think the only film I’ve eschewed was The Lovely Bones Read more

  • Hester Hitchins and the Falling Stars – Catherine Norton

    Harper Collins Australia July 2024 Don’t think it’s taken me all this time to read this one because it didn’t at all. After The Fortune Maker this was high up in the reading order. It’s just a sad fact that it’s taken me this long to get to writing the review. But it is another Read more

  • Father of the Lost Boys for Younger Readers: The Mecak Ajang Alaak Story – Yuot A. Alaak

    Fremantle Press June 2024 ISBN: 9781760993900 RRP: $17.99 When I was commissioned to write the teaching notes for this, I confess I only knew a smidgin about the Sudanese ‘lost boys’, and, in fact, the whole Sudan situation – despite the fact that we have many Sudanese immigrants here in SE Qld. Their story was certainly Read more

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