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Spectacular Snakes – Emma Flannery and Professor Tim Flannery. Illustrated by Katie Melrose.
Hardie Grant Australia December 2024 ISBN:9781761211737 Price:AU$26.99, NZ$29.99 Imprint:Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing This is big, bold and beautiful ,and younger K would have adored this book as she has been an ophiophilist from the time she was toddling after our garden skinks and geckos. Your readers from Smalls to Not-so-smalls will love it too. Katie…
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Wombat Dreaming- Caz Goodwin. Illustrations by Zoë Bennett.
Affirm Press May 2025 Dist: Simon & Schuster Imprint: Affirm Kids ISBN13: 9781923046603 As it happens just yesterday, [as I write this 24/05] at my twice-weekly Senior Sisters exercise class we finished off our hour with 15 minutes of yoga. I hasten to point that it was only standing yoga, as we all have made…
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Creature Corridors – Billie Rooney and Anke Noack
CSIRO Publishing February 2025 | $ 26.99ISBN: 9781486318100 For kiddos who love learning about nature and our wildlife (which is most of them really), this will be not only a fun read but informative as well. Quite a few will be able to make connections to their own neighbourhoods and environs, as even in more…
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Alexander’s Outing – Pamela Allen
Penguin Australia ISBN: 9781761355134 Imprint: Puffin Format: Board Book RRP: $14.99 Who hasn’t shared the love with Alexander at some point, (or many even!) over the past 30 – THIRTY!! – years? And for those of us who are Sydney girls, it has always had a special place in our reading canon. My last outing with Alexander was about…
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Lucky – Amelia Tonta & Peter Baldwin
Publisher: Affirm Kids (May 27, 2025) Distributed by Simon & Schuster ISBN13: 9781923022171 RRP: AU$ 22.99 / NZ$ 27.99 For those of us who have been in library mode as long as I have, this will bring back happy memories of hilarious sessions reading A Nice Walk in the Jungle but in this new Amelia…
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Koala Koala – John Williamson. Illustrated by Jonathan Bentley.
Penguin Australia April 2025 ISBN: 9781761344244 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $19.99 Koala, Koala – we love youSo soft in the fork of your tree . . .Koala, Koala – where will you goIf we take your gum trees away? I’ve mentioned my association with John along with koalas previously on this blog. While my fond memory is about Goodbye…
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World Bee Day – bee-yootiful bonus!
Did you know that this Tuesday, May 20th is World Bee Day? What is World Bee Day?With more than 20,000 identified bee species in the world, and the importance of bees to the world’s environment – not least to the production of both food and oxygen, World Bee Day was initiated on May 20th, 2017 by the…
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The Gift of a Good Death Our palliative dementia story – Lisa Twigg
November 2024 ISBN-10 : 1763661806 ISBN-13 : 978-1763661806 RRP: $26.00 I had great pleasure in reviewing Lisa’s first book 80 Years Without Dementia last year, not only because she is one of our friends from Redcliffe SLS but also because her story touches so many lives. This is particularly so for those of…
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Apples not Orples – R. A. Stephens. Illustrated by Carmen Dougherty.
Wombat Books/Rhiza Press October 2024 SKU: 9781761111693 RRP: $24.99 Without a doubt, having books that illustrate mathematical concepts are a commodity that are always welcome for classroom teachers. I used plenty in the few years of Year 1 classroom before I went to the library, and was always on the lookout for more afterwards, as…
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