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Bonkers About Beetles – Owen Davey
Walker Books ISBN: 9781911171485 Imprint: NB – Flying Eye Release Date: August 1, 2018 Australian RRP: $27.99 New Zealand RRP: $29.99 I love Flying Eye books (I may have mentioned that once or twice) I love Owen Davey’s wonderful non-fiction series which brings a world of nature, science and history to kids in a remarkably attractive way. My own girl,…
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Collecting Sunshine – Rachel Flynn & Tamsin Ainslie
Penguin Random House 9780143785187 September 3, 2018 Imprint: Viking RRP: $22.99 Like all small children Mabel and Robert love to collect things on their walks (ahh yes, the days when I had to take snap lock bags with me for Small’s treasures) and they pick up all kinds of marvellous finds: beautiful stones, interesting…
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Inheritance – Carole Wilkinson
Walker Books ISBN: 9781760650360 Imprint: Black Dog Books Release Date: September 1, 2018 Australian RRP: $17.99 New Zealand RRP: $19.99 Carole Wilkinson has created a superbly plausible narrative which realistically weaves historic realism from Australia’s past from the perspective of both First Australians and early white settlers putting an ugly side to the beginnings of our modern nation in full…
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The Princess in Black and the Science Fair Scare – Shannon Hale & Dean Hale. Illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Penguin Random House Hardcover | $14.99 Published by Candlewick Sep 25, 2018 ISBN 9780763688271 Without a doubt this series is one of the most popular with our newly independent readers. There is rarely a copy left in the series box and also sold out rapidly at our recent book fair. They are not just the right…
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Monster Party – The Children from Rawa with Alison Lester & Jane Godwin
Magabala Books September 2018 ISBN:9781925360554 RRP: $17.99 Described by the publisher as an ‘explosion of fun and pure joy’ this is a delightfully riotous and exuberant picture book full of colour and humour. The Rawa Community School is on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert and the children there helped to write the text…
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Help Around the House – Morris Gleitzman
Penguin Random House 9780143793236 September 3, 2018 Penguin RRP $16.99 Classic Morris Gleitzman! And pure unadulterated joy! In these parlous times when politicians behave without regard for those they are sworn to represent this could not be more timely or indeed, pointed. Ludo is a helper. A year after losing his mother his desire…
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Pages & Co : Tilly and the Bookwanderers –Anna James
Harper Collins ISBN: 9780008229887 ISBN 10: 0008229880 Imprint: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks On Sale: 18/09/2018 List Price: 9.99 AUD Ever since Tilly’s mum disappeared when she was tiny, her home has been with her Grandma and Grandpa in their house/bookshop Pages & Co. Inevitably, given that circumstance, Tilly is the ultimate bookworm and constantly loses herself deep in a book, particularly her…
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Digby & Claude – Emma Allen & Hannah Sommerville
Publisher: National Library of Australia Edition: 1st Edition ISBN: 9780642279279 Publication Date: 01 August 2018 RRP $24.99 When Emma Allen read an old newspaper article about ‘family friendly’ flats being built in Erskineville back in the 1930s she was inspired to create a picture book which reflected not only a child’s appreciation of their own place…
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Dragon Apocalypse: City of Monsters #3 – DC Green
Sep 2018 Ford Street Publishing 9781925272680 AUD$19.95, NZD$24.99 DC, you have completely smashed it with this thrilling conclusion to the trilogy – darker, edgier and gripping! I’ve watched with such joy as the Dead Gang monster misfits have grown from their funky beginnings to truly kickass warriors united in their mission to save not…
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