Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Penguin Bloom Young Readers’ Edition – Chris Kunz, Harry Cripps, Shaun Grant

    Harper Collins Australia January 2021 ISBN: 9780733341670 ISBN 10: 0733341675 Imprint: ABC Books – AU List Price: 14.99 AUD Unless you were in some kind of mystical retreat with no access to outside communication, you could not have missed one of the summer’s biggest cinema releases, Penguin Bloom, based on the real-life story of Sam Bloom. Sam’s story, and…

  • Float or Sink? – Kylie Covark. Illustrated by Andrew Plant

    Ford St Publishing February 2021 ISBN: 9781925804621 [paperback] RRP: $16.95 This rhyming story is as cute as the bugs who star in it! When a stick falls into the creek the reader is invited to guess whether it will float or sink and when first a ladybird lands on it, followed by an assortment of…

  • Welcome, Child! – Sally Morgan

    Magabala Books March 2021 ISBN 9781925936025 RRP: $12.99 Of course this is not the first book to celebrate the love with which they are received into their family for our littlest of readers, but it is one that specifically allows for our youngest First Australians to recognise themselves. Sally Morgan’s simple but beautiful text, accompanied…

  • The Golden Tower – Belinda Murrell

    Penguin Australia March 2021 ISBN: 9781760897093 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $16.99   Belinda Murrell’s time-slip adventures have always been thrilling and captivating and this new one does not fail to do the same. Sophie is feeling a little down. Though she loves her English grandmother dearly, she’s a little bored with her extended stay while her mum and younger…

  • Kensy and Max #7: Take Down – Jacqueline Harvey

    Penguin Australia March 2 2021 ISBN: 9781760898533 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $16.99 The countdown to Take Down is on! The kiddos are going to be wild with excitement to read this new adventure with the spies-in-training, as they set off for the World STEM championships in exotic Singapore. The team from the Central London Free School are thrilled to…

  • KBR: Moonlight Mums – Laura Stitzel

    Read my review of this beautiful new picture book on Kids Book Review now 🙂

  • Heroes of the Secret Underground – Susanne Gervay

    Harper Collins Australia April 2021 ISBN: 9781460758335 ISBN 10: 1460758331 Imprint: HarperCollins – AU List Price: 16.99 AUD What an absolute privilege to review Susanne’s new historical fiction inspired by, and a tribute to her own family’s history in Budapest during the last years of World War II. 12 year old Louie lives with her two younger brothers, Bert…

  • Funny Kid Belly Flop: Funny Kid #8- Matt Stanton

    Harper Collins Australia September 2020 ISBN: 9780733340604 ISBN 10: 0733340601 Imprint: ABC Books – AU List Price: 14.99 AUD Ok so it took a while to get to this one but I laughed my way through it today while waiting patiently at my doctor. Pretty sure that others in the waiting room were slightly bemused by my stifled giggles.…

  • KBR Review: Listen, Layla

    You can read my review of the second book about indomitable Layla on Kids Book Review now.

  • KBR Review: Can We Talk About Consent? A Book About Freedom, Choices and Agreement

    You can read my review of this important new non-fiction book at Kids Book Review now!