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The Eagle of Rome: A Lottie Lipton Adventure – Dan Metcalf
Allen & Unwin Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN:9781472927583 Imprint: A&C Black Children’S September 2016 RRP $12.99 I have some little girls who will be most excited when this hits the shelves after the holidays. They loved the first one I brought along to the library so the rest of the series is on our ‘to buy’ list…
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Fright Club – Ethan Long
Bloomsbury Publishing Australia Published: 01-09-2016 ISBN: 9781681190433 Imprint: Bloomsbury USA Childrens RRP: $9.99 – This is one of the cutest board books I’ve seen for ages. Forget about sweet and pretty – this one is just in time for Halloween and a fun story for little people. The local Fright Club led by Vladimir…
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Crazy Characters & Daft Deeds
I’ve chosen to review these two books on the same post as to me they are similar in many ways all of which will appeal to their audience. Both Colin Thompson and A.F. Harrold have a singular and individualised way of providing satirical humour for a pint-sized readership. They also both employ that every…
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Girl vs. Boy Band: The Right Track – Harmony Jones
Bloomsbury Publishing Australia Published: 01-07-2016 ISBN: 9781408868546 Imprint: Bloomsbury Childrens RRP: $14.99 If you have girls who are pop fans and are looking for a little innocent romance along with an engaging story, this will be a very popular addition to your collection. It’s light and frothy and a bit bubble-gummy but perfect for tweens…
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The Giant’s Necklace – Michael Morpurgo. Illustrated by Briony May Smith
Walker Books Australia ISBN: 9781406357127 Imprint: WALKER HARDBACK Australian RRP: $19.99 New Zealand RRP: $22.99 Coming hot on the heels of my review of Michael’s ‘Such Stuff’ is this absolutely beautiful short story/novella which is both poignant and thrilling. And of course, now I also want to know the ‘prompt’ for this particular story. A family is on their…
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Spark – Adam Wallace/Andrew Plant
Ford St Publishing ISBN: 9781925272406 (HC) 9781925272413 (PB) Publication date: October 2016 (HC) March 2017 (PB) Price: AUD $24.95 “Adam Wallace was 11 years old when the Ash Wednesday bushfires threatened his home. Forced to leave with his grandmother, no car and a budgie in a cage, it was only a wind change that saved…
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Willy and the Cloud – Anthony Browne
Walker Books Australia ISBN: 9781406366969 Imprint: WALKER HARDBACK Release Date: October 1, 2016 Australian RRP: $24.99 Once again, one of my very favourite author/illustrators the immensely talented Anthony Browne takes a serious topic and transforms it into a sophisticated picture book that will be a perfect springboard for discussion with young readers. Willy the chimp has taken us all…
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Geis: A Matter of Life & Death – Alexis Deacon
Walker Books Australia ISBN: 9781910620038 Imprint: NB NOBROW Release Date: September 1, 2016 Australian RRP: $29.99 New Zealand RRP: $32.99 geis f (genitive singular geise, nominative plural geasa) a solemninjunction, especially of a magical kind, the infringement of which led to misfortune or even death atabu, spell or prohibition https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/geis This is going to tick a lot of boxes for quite a number of your readers. Firstly, it…
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