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Bring Me the Head of Ivy Pocket – Caleb Krisp
Allen & Unwin ISBN: 9781408858721 Publisher: Bloomsbury UK Imprint: Bloomsbury Child May 2017 RRP $14.99 After two totally madcap and thrilling Ivy Pocket adventures, Caleb Krisp completes the trilogy with an equally exciting conclusion. For those who have followed Ivy’s incredible and unbelievable exploits so far you may find this final instalment quite a lot…
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Animasaurus – Tracey Turner, illustrated by Harriet Russell
Bloomsbury UK Imprint: Bloomsbury Child ISBN 9781408884850 RRP: $26.99 Did you know: A shark as long as a bus roamed the oceans? Hamsters with horns once burrowed the Earth? Giant armadillos grew to the size of a family car? Oh yes, this very much satisfies my love of engaging information books for children! Explore the…
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Mimi
By: Fatima Sharafeddine Illustrator: Rasha Mounib Al Hakim Bloomsbury Publishing January 2017 While I’m on this note of promoting intercultural understandings, I think it’s timely to add these two books to the blog. They are quite simply written with bold illustrations and perfectly capture small adventures in a little girl’s life. The important thing to my mind is…
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Pack your bags – we’re going on a trip!
Tania McCartney and Tina Snerling EK Publishing RRP $19.99 Tania and Tina have once again triumphed as they continue their “A Kid’s Year Series”. Children are celebrated and cultures, customs and festivities are explored in each book via the group of children featured. What an absolutely marvellous way for us to spread the joy…
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Never Say Die – Alex Rider
Walker Books Australia ISBN: 9781406377040 June 1, 2017 Australian RRP: $16.99 New Zealand RRP: $18.99 How absolutely apt that as we mourn the loss of the suavest Bond of them all – vale Sir Roger Moore – the new Alex Rider explodes into our reading lives with every bit of excitement that we have come to anticipate from…
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The Fall – Tristan Bancks
9780143783053 May 29, 2017 Random House Australia Children’s RRP $16.99 Well, after much impatient anticipation I could just say ‘WOW’! But that’s hardly the review this new action-packed novel deserves so I shall continue. Tristan has a superlative ability to write everyday all-too-human imperfect characters and transform them into inspirational heroes. Sam has never…
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Letters to the Lost – Brigid Kemmerer
Allen & Unwin ISBN:9781408883525 Publisher: Bloomsbury UK Imprint :Bloomsbury Child March 2017 RRP $16.99 Juliet’s mother died in a terrible hit-and-run accident. On her way home from yet another international photography mission documenting the heartbreak of war zones and disasters, she returned early at Juliet’s request and on her way from the airport was suddenly…
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Engaging Adolescents- Michael Hawton
Exisle Publishing May 2017 ISBN 9781925335408 RRP $29.99 You know those shows on TV about history’s worst jobs? I reckon parenting teenagers should be heavily featured! Yes, I’ve raised three girls – only with moderate success, doing the best I could, with what I had and lots of tantrums/screaming matches/exhausting emotions – and now, raising…
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What is Poetry? – Michael Rosen
Walker Books ISBN: 9781844287635 Imprint: Walker February 1, 2017 Australian RRP: $14.99 New Zealand RRP: $16.99 Many years of working as a successfully and highly regarded poet has given Michael Rosen some great insights into the ins and outs of poetry in its many forms. This is basically a handbook for either teachers or students who are keen…
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