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School of Monsters series- Sally Rippin. Art by Chris Kennet.
Hardie Grant Children’s October 2024 Leggy Peggy ISBN: 9781761213496 RRP: $10.99 Super-fast Skelly October 2024 ISBN: 9781761213489 RRP: $10.99 Fairly recently I had the pleasure of sharing an online discussion with our Laureate, Sally Rippin (thanks to YKR) in which much of her content was focused on the need for us all to support those…
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Jonty Gentoo: The Adventures of a Penguin- Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
Scholastic Australia September 2024 Pesto is the biggest penguin the Melbourne aquarium has ever had — and he’s just a chick As the news about Pesto, the ‘chunky monkey’ penguin chick hits our news reports [first shared with me by The Kid] it’s perfect timing to write up my review for this new collaboration between…
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September Wrap-up
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Junkyard Fairies:#1 Dig Deep – Edwina Wyatt. Illustrated by Lauren O’Hara
Walker Books Australia October 2024 ISBN13:9781760657048 Australia RRP:$19.99 New Zealand RRP:$24.99 Even without the addition of the adorable little fairy house [thank you so much Walker Books!🍄] , I would have loved this delightful new take on fairies for a contemporary audience. It’s rather like a mash-up of Enid Blyton with Bottersnikes & Gumbles and…
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Hotel Balzaar – Kate DiCamillo. Illustrated by Júlia Sardà.
Walker Books Australia October 2024 ISBN13:9781529523782 Australia RRP:$24.99 New Zealand RRP:$27.99 One thing is always certain. A book by Kate DiCamillo will always be captivating. After the first Norendy tale, readers knew they could look forward to more of the magic realism of this series and it has come with another glorious story about stories.…
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Party Rhyme – Antonia Pesenti
I had not seen the first two rhyme books from this talented creator, and now I’m sorry to have missed them because this is just fantastic. As a punster from way back I believe kiddos, even Smalls, are never too young for some word play and when it’s as tricky and absurd as this, all…
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Djinang Bonar: Seeing Seasons – Ebony Froome. Illustrated by Leanne Zilm.
Fremantle Press July 2024 ISBN: 9781760994211 RRP: $24.99 This is absolutely beautiful! The illustrations for this gorgeous bilingual book will knock your socks off. We are beginning to see and use many First Nations seasonal calendars e.g. from CSIRO as more and more are researched and developed. This one outlines the signs of the changing seasons…
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