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The Body Book – Hannah Alice
Allen & Unwin July 2020 ISBN:9781788006767 Publisher:Nosy Crow Imprint:Nosy Crow RRP $19.99 So here’s another book about the human body but this one for your younger readers – with considerably less grossness haha! It’s a large format sturdy board book and the see-through body will absolutely entrance readers as they explore each aspect of the…
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The Human Body Survival Guide – George Ivanoff
Penguin Australia September 2020 ISBN: 9781760896744 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $24.99 As it happens the Kid is looking at the human body for the science component of her home schooling this term. Of course, as the diligent teacher-librarian/gran that I am, I have organised a lot of useful resources for her – none of which will be anywhere near…
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The Fire Star: A Maven & Reeve Mystery- A. L. Tait
Penguin Australia September 2020 ISBN: 9781760897079 Imprint: Penguin RRP: $16.99 Well-known globally for her adventure series The Mapmaker Chronicles and The Ateban Cipher, A. L. Tait brings another entertaining and engaging series to middle years readers with the introduction of Maven and Reeve. Maven, youngest daughter of an impoverished and dispossessed noble family, is companion and maid to…
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The Tindims of Rubbish Island – Sally Gardner and Lydia Corry
Harper Collins Australia September 2020 ISBN: 9781838935672 ISBN 10: 1838935673 Imprint: Head Of Zeus – Zehpyr – GB List Price: 12.99 AUD This is not only a terrific story for newly independent readers to enjoy on their own but if your junior classes are planning an environmental or recycling unit this would make a super introduction to some serial…
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Mind Shift to a Better Place – Dr Larsen, Mindshift Foundation, Elizabeth Venzin
Harper Collins Australia February 2020 ISBN: 9780733340451 ISBN 10: 0733340458 Imprint: ABC Books – AU List Price: 32.99 AUD Thankfully mental health has become not only de-stigmatised but supported and managed in ways that previously we had never experienced. It’s fair to say that 2020 has taken almost all of us to emotional places we had never expected to…
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Health and Help for tweens & teens
There is certainly a boom in books targeting young people to empower them to be their best selves and take action for the greater good. As it happens I have quite a pile of them here so have decided to compile them into this one post. All are very worthy additions either to a personal…
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Bear in Space – Deborah Abela. Illustrated by Marjorie Crosby-Fairall
Walker Books Australia August 2020 ISBN: 9781760651510Imprint: Walker Books Australia Australian RRP: $25.99New Zealand RRP: $28.99 Encouraging our little readers to be not just accepting of differences but to embrace them is arguably one of the greatest gifts we can offer. And to be able to do this through the enjoyment of a wonderful and vibrant story is a…
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Tree Beings – Raymond Huber and Sandra Severgnini [with a foreword by Jane Goodall]
Exisle Publishing October 2020 ISBN 9781925820539 RRP $34.99 I think it fair to say that if Dr Jane Goodall is lending her endorsement to a book then you know it must be of the highest quality. This is a beautiful volume packed with information and richly illustrated which addresses the growing desire among children to…
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