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Australian Backyard Earth Scientist – Peter Macinnis
NLA February 2019 ISBN: 9780642279347 RRP: $29.99 It’s taken a long time to get this beauty into my hands but at last I have been able to savour it’s wealth of information and there are two reasons why it’s most timely to be able to review it now. One is that the esteemed author has…
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The Tiny Star – Mem Fox/Freya Blackwood
Penguin 1st October 2019 ISBN: 9780670078127 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $24.99 Mem Fox has triumphed again with this simply beautiful new picture book inspired by the most personal of motivations – the bond between loving grandparent and grandchild. In their first collaboration Mem and Freya have produced a gentle and warming exploration of life and death that will resonate…
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The Wizards of Once: Knock Three Times: #3 – Cressida Cowell
Hachette SEP 24, 2019 | 9781444941470 | RRP $19.99 Not strange at all – looking up and seeing three children clutching a magical flying door high above a forest. Well ok, perhaps a magical door flying is a tiny bit odd but not in a Cressida Cowell fantasy/adventure! Xar, Wish and little Bodkin are escaping their Warrior and Wizard…
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JT : The Making of a Total Legend – Jonathan Thurston, with James Phelps
Harper Collins August 2019 ISBN: 9781460758618 ISBN 10: 1460758617 Imprint: HarperCollins – AU List Price: 16.99 AUD I grew up slightly obsessed with rugby league. Born and bred in the heart of Dragons’ territory in the glory days of that team, my girlfriends and I played footy every day in the school playground (I still bear a cracking scar…
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Kensy and Max #4: Out of Sight – Jacqueline Harvey
Penguin September 2019 ISBN: 9780143791928 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $16.99 Just as life for the intrepid and resilient twins seems to be settling with both their parents and their grandparents restored to the family, the London house habitable again and being back at school with their friends, things start hotting up. Their upcoming first Pharos review is doubtless a…
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Everest: The Remarkable Story of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay – Alexandra Stewart/Joe Todd-Stanton
Bloomsbury May 2019 ISBN: 9781526600769 Imprint: Bloomsbury Children’s Books RRP: $24.99 As a child of the 50s the names of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were as familiar to me as the names of my friends. Though I was born a few years after their remarkable expedition their names still resounded around the globe.…
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Final Storm – Deborah Abela
Penguin August 2019 ISBN: 9780143794462 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $16.99 When Deborah Abela started her ‘cranky climate change’ series it was because she was prompted to do so by the refusal of world governments to take action against the obvious and dangerous climatic changes threatening the world as we know it. A decade after the publication of Grimsdon our…
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