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The Harry Potter Wizarding Almanac
Bloomsbury ISBN 9781526646712 Imprint Bloomsbury Children’s Books RRP: $55.00 This year Harry Potter Book Day was on my birthday – which I personally found very pleasing. I wasn’t in a library to celebrate as I have done previously, but regardless it was a very satisfying thought and I downloaded and saved activities to use with…
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Parcel for Turtle – Shelley Knoll-Miller
Penguin Australia How absolutely delighted am I that the first ‘Parcel for…’ title I review, so closely reflects our happy place – the beach, and some of its very nicest inhabitants – indeed, practically our neighbours. Each book in this series is a clever, but simply written guessing game for Littles, with absolutely gorgeous comic…
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2023 Festival of Los – the highlights
To treat myself, we went to a beautiful little Air BnB unit where we’ve stayed before, to celebrate my birthday. We took The Kid’s bestie along for the ride and all had a great time. There was surfing and beachtime, movies and a canal cruise on a historic timber ferry around the mansions of Mooloolaba,…
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Nothing Alike – Zewlan Moor/Peter Cheong
Hardie Grant Publishing August 2023 ISBN: 9781761212239ISBN-10: 1761212230 Imprint: Bright Light RRP: $22.99 #sorrywrongasian. In case you missed the Twitter (remember that?) avalanche of 2021, the whole issue of being an ‘interchangeable Asian‘ and microaggression was highlighted when a slew of reports of ‘mistaken Asian identity’ was reported by Asian-Americans across the country. This particular form of…
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Where Are All the Christmas Beetles? Suzanne Houghton
CSIRO Publishing November 2023 ISBN: 9781486317905 RRP: $24.99 I think this is a question that many of us have asked in recent years. I particularly requested this book, as in our new little house we have been seemingly in the epicentre of beetle activity lately. They come zooming in through our French doors and racket…
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Big Magic – Sarah Armstrong
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing May 2022 ISBN: 9781760508432 RRP: $19.99 It has certainly taken its time to come into my hands, but it was definitely worth the wait. I had heard so many good things about this book, not least of all via the chatter from The Uber Talented Critique Group (comprising some of my…
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How We Came to Be: Creatures of Camouflage and Mimicry – Sami Bayly
Hachette SEP 27, 2023 | 9780734421371 | RRP $19.99 Imprint: Lothian Children’s Books Sami Bayly‘s books are always something special and this new one will completely fascinate your young readers with another cavalcade of weird and wonderful creatures. In this new natural history excursion, kiddos will discover a range of cleverly evolved creatures who can camouflage themselves by various…
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