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Picture Book Month extra!!! Taronga Big Book of Animals – Taronga Conservation Society Australia
Penguin Australia October 2024 Meet the Four Artists Behind Taronga Zoo’s Big Book of Animals In case you missed my recent reviews of Kristin Darrell’s new junior fiction series featuring all the excitement of Taronga Zoo, you should really pick them up now and pair them with this extraordinarily beautiful encyclopedia of animal facts, showcasing…
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The Truck Cat: National Simultaneous Storytime 2025- Deborah Frenkel and Danny Snell
Hardie Grant Australia November 2024 ISBN:9781761212291 Price:AU$24.99, NZ$27.99Page Publisher:Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing At a time when the world is in turmoil, much of it due to ignorance, intolerance and bigotry, there could not be a more timely choice for a book that will bring children right across the country together, in a glorious celebration and…
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Are You Big? – Mo Willems
Walker Books Australia September 2024 ISBN13:9781760659905 Australia RRP:$24.99 New Zealand RRP:$27.99 To paraphrase Roy & HG, too much Mo is never enough!! Here’s another one of Mo Willems’ deceptively simple, but loaded with learning books. You can see by the spreads above just how understated it is but conversely, also the immensity of it all.…
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Be the Bus! The Lost and Profound Wisdom of The Pigeon (as told to Mo Willems)- Mo Willems
Walker Books Australia November 2024 ISBN13:9781760659806 Australia RRP:$19.99 New Zealand RRP:$22.99 As mentioned previously [probably more than once because that seems to be a thing at my age!] I’ve been a fan of Mo’s work from the start. While my favourite is still Nanette’s Baguette, really they are all fabulous. You have only to remind…
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Picture Book Month Extra!!! The Hunger Games [Illustrated edition] – Suzanne Collins. Illustrated by Nico Delort.
Scholastic Australia October 2024 Imprint; Scholastic Inc. 9781761640995 $49.99 Would you ever have thought The Hunger Games could get even better? This illustrated version is just sensational! This is quite the hefty volume – almost A4 in size – and dense but so beautifully presented and the monochromatic illustrations by Nic Delort bring a whole…
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Shadow Play – Kate Forsyth. Illustrated by Rosalie Street.
Wombat Books August 2024 9781925563740 $26.99 I’ve often mentioned here the prevalence of anxiety in children, some of them very young, but it’s also fair to point out that there have always been Smalls who have been scared of one thing or another. I know, I was none too thrilled with the dark when I…
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Picture Book Month extra!! Cobweb – Michael Morpurgo
Harper Collins Australia RRP: $19.99 Once again Michael Morpurgo demonstrates exactly why he is a master of middle grade historical fiction, even at the venerable age of 80+. If you have read his memoir Such Stuff: a Storymaker’s Inspiration, you will already be aware that most, if not all, of Michael’s stories are sparked initially…
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The Garden at the End of the World – Cassy Polimeni & Briony Stewart
UQP April 2024 ISBN: 9780702265693 RRP: $24.99 In one of those weird kind of quirks, I actually got Cassy’s second book before I got the copy of this, her debut title. When I finally got my hands on it, I decided I would save it to showcase during Picture Book Month because it is such…
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Tardigrades: Nature’s Toughest Survivors – Anne Morgan/Jennifer Falkner
CSIRO Publishing October 2024 ISBN: 9781486316052 RRP: $24.99 In one of those weird moments of synchronicity I found out about this book just as I’d finished a MG novel in which the protagonist is doing her class project on tardigrades. They really are the strangest little beasties but how cool is this book that will…
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