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Dogs with Jobs: the heroic hounds who make a difference – Andrea Rowe. Julia Murray
Hardie Grant October 2025 ISBN:9781761213991 Price:AU$24.99, NZ$27.99 Publisher:Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing Odd sometimes, that you get similar books within such a short time of each other. Over the past decade or so, it has happened numerous times. So yes, this is another book titled Dogs with Jobs. It will be a great companion book for…
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Picture Book Month Bonus: Heart of Ice: a journey into Antarctica’s frozen realm – Joy McCann
New South Press 9781742237800 / November 2025 / RRP $34.99 This is one of the rare reviews that I’m writing before I’ve actually finished reading the book – simply because it fits so neatly with the earlier post and the lovely kids’ non-fiction book. I confess that this is really slack, particularly because I had this book as an…
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All About Antarctica: a Fact Book about the Southernmost Continent – Marc Martin
Penguin Australia October 2025 Slide through to see inside – you need to see how jam-packed this one is! I feel like it’s been a long time since I’ve seen some of Marc Martin’s work. This thought occurred to me just last week as I shifted more old reviews to the new archive and came…
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Picture Book Month Bonus: Congratulations Riveted Press on such a successful year!
I’ve been able to review a number of Riveted Press books this year (and possibly still at least a couple to squeeze in before blog break – including Flight of the Drakkonbarq) and all have been a pleasure. As regular readers of this blog know, I actually do read cover-to-cover everything I review [one or…
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B is for Busy: Mum’s Busy Work – Jacinda Ardern. Illustrated by Ruby Jones.
Penguin Australia September 2025 While not every woman becomes a Prime Minister with a child, every working woman with a child can relate to the constant juggling of home, family and the demands of the job. And many children will also relate to being the offspring of a busy working mum. But as this book…
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B for Bored: Bored – Felicita Sala
Hardie Grant December 2025 ISBN:9781761217661 Price:AU$24.99, NZ$27.99 Publisher:Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing Imprint: Little Hare Anyone with kids on holidays could easily relate to this with that pathetic moan of ‘I’m boooooored.’ But how about turning that boredom into busy-ness? Rita is bored. Really, REALLY bored. Sooooooooooooooo bored. So bored she can’t even think properly but…
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Lots of B books today beginning with B for Birthday: I’m Very Busy: a (nearly forgotten) birthday book – Oliver Jeffers
Harper Collins Australia October 2025 Who doesn’t love Oliver Jeffers’ books? They are always amusing but also have real depth to them, and it’s those layers that make them all the more special. It’s Bridget’s birthday and she wants to spend it with friends because that’s always more fun. I can vouch for this, my…
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Picture Book Month Bonus; False Versus Facts – Dan Marshall
Walker Books Australia August 2025 ISBN13:9781760659721 Australia RRP:$19.99 New Zealand RRP:$24.99 This is a terrific fun and fascinating read for your kiddos from around Year 3 to Year 5/6 who like this type of quick grab info books. Each topic covered starts off with a fallacy and then provides 3 actual facts about the subject.…
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Frogs are Our Friends – Toni d’Alia. Madeline White.
Hardie Grant June 2025 ISBN:9781761212987 Price:AU$24.99, NZ$27.99 Series:Our Friends in the Garden Publisher:Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing Finishing off today with a splash that is not in the ocean – here’s a really cute rhyming book featuring so many kiddos’ favourite – the frog! This is third in a series, which I have not unfortunately seen…
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