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The Great Realisation: the post-pandemic poem that has captured the hearts of millions – Tomos Roberts [Tomfoolery]
Harper Collins Australia September 2020 ISBN: 9781460759806 ISBN 10: 146075980X Imprint: HarperCollins – AU List Price: 24.99 AUD When Tomfoolery’s Facebook video of his spoken word poem was launched in April 2020 it resonated with thousands of people across the world and was shared and re-shared again and again. As the global population struggled to come to terms with…
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Back…in time for Christmas
It’s been a rather hectic time the past month or so. A new school, a new job always presents its challenges and a special kind of tiredness but in this – dare I say – year of unprecedented circumstances, perhaps even moreso. While I’ve done a fair bit of reading after crawling into bed exhausted…
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Vale Sir Sean Connery
My newest library display featured the great man whose loss is being mourned around the world….thank you Sir Sean for all you gave to us.
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Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily – Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
Allen & Unwin October 2020 ISBN:9781760526214 Publisher:A&U Children’s Imprint:A & U Children RRP: $19.99 This is my first encounter with Dash and Lily – and I’m in love with them! As it happens I had put this title on our orders list because I liked the sound of it so much – and as it…
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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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