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Racing Puffing Billy- Corinne Fenton/Mark Wilson
Windy Hollow Books Walker Books August 2026 ISBN13:9781922998279 Australia RRP:$29.99 New Zealand RRP:$34.99 I love trains. It’s been some time since I’ve been on a properly exciting train journey but I do love them. As I write this review, I’m also watching a documentary on the 100th anniversary of the Flying Scotsman, as it happens.… Read more
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Picture Book Bonus: Gallipoli – Dawn of the ANZAC Spirit: Australia Remembers #7 – Tom Lewis
Little Big Sky May 2026 ISBN13: 9781923514324 LIST PRICE: AU$ 24.99 / NZ$ 28.99 While this one was sent to me in late April, it arrived too late for ANZAC Day [and didn’t make it to my Blak ANZACs post with titles also from Big Sky], so I decided it would be better kept for… Read more
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The Everywhere Train- Deborah Frenkel. Danny Snell
Hardie Grant Publishing September 2026 9781761213953 $24.99 Unless you were under a rock or incapacitated in some way, you could not have missed the sensation that was The Truck Cat. What a hugely popular choice it was for NSS as well. Now from that same great pairing is this absolutely beautiful book that allows children… Read more
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The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body – Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen
Celebrating 40 years of The Magic School Bus Scholastic Australia ISBN: 9781761818592 ISBN-10: 1761818597 Series: Magic School Bus November 2026 RRP: $19.99 Kicking off today’s batch of PBs featuring ‘things that go’ it’s another anniversary edition to make us all go – oh wow! 40 years?! And has there ever been a more iconic, well-loved… Read more
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There’s a Chicken in the House – Sonya Hartnett. Lucia Masciullo.
Penguin Australia August 2026 ISBN: 9781761344497 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $24.99 For those of us with fluffbutts – and I am currently in my 4th round of keeping the beaky little beggars [Henny & Penny, d’uccle Belgian bantams – reputedly docile breed – hah!] this sweet and gentle book has special resonance. But even kiddos who… Read more
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Cockadoodle Moo?! – Tanya Hennessy. Illustrated by Shiloh Gordon.
Allen & Unwin August 2026 RRP: $19.99 ISBN:9781761181603 Publisher:A&U Children’s Imprint:Albert Street Books This past week I’ve rewatched the Shrek movies and realised again just how fun they are with loads of intercontextuality for adults as well as the plentiful humour for kiddos. And this terrific book echoes that premise exactly. In fact, I’d liken… Read more
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