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The Tinysaurs – Sally Odgers. Adele K. Thomas
Scholastic Australia February 2026 9781761528576 RRP: $16.99 Cute poster for your library or just for fun All your Smalls who have adored Pearl and friends, are going to lap this up like a cat with a saucer of cream. It’s cute and it’s colourful and it’s really cleverly engaging with a twist on many ideas.…
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A Light on the Rocks – Helen Edwards
Publisher: Riveted Press January , 2026 ISBN13: 9781764007191 LIST PRICE: AU$ 17.99 / NZ$ 19.99 I’ve quickly come to realise that Helen’s historical novels are impeccably researched and completely engrossing, so much so that it is not just your young readers who will enjoy them, but also adults. As I have mentioned previously I, for…
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The Flight of the Drakkonbarq- Sarah Giddy
Riveted Press October 2025 Simon & Schuster ISBN13: 9781764007146 LIST PRICE: AU$ 18.99 / NZ$ 19.99 Here’s another gift suggestion for an astute reader from about 10 years upwards. You could get a small sense of this book from the blurb, which has probably been rehashed by at least one reviewer, but it truly needs…
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Lost Evangeline – Kate DiCamillo. Illustrated by Sophie Blackall.
Walker Books Australia November 2025 ISBN13:9781529525892 Australia RRP:$24.99 New Zealand RRP:$27.99 As it arrives hard on the heels of the 25th anniversary of Because of Winn-Dixie [one of my all time favourite books!] it is a special treat to review a new Kate book. It arrived yesterday, much to my delight, and, of course, I…
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Picture Book Month Bonus: The Cockatoo Crew #1 and #2 – Lora Inak. Illustrations by Kruti Desai.
UWA Publishing RRP: $15.99 This is a brilliant new JF series that all kids will eagerly engage with and enjoy. The whole is set in Cockatoo Hill English Language School and casts a group of eight culturally diverse, enthusiastic and delightful refugee kids as main characters. Despite their differences in experiences, cultural backgrounds, language and…
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Our Beautiful World – Sarah Speedie. Margeaux Davis
New Frontier Publishing April 2025 ISBN : 978-1-923145-57-3 PRICE : $26.99 The holidays are fast approaching and some of your children will be going away perhaps to places overseas, perhaps within Australia, but as always, there will be those who will not be going away. Take them on a virtual trip to see the colourful and vibrant…
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All About Antarctica: a Fact Book about the Southernmost Continent – Marc Martin
Penguin Australia October 2025 ISBN: 9781761047411 Imprint: Penguin RRP: $24.99 Slide through to see inside – you need to see how jam-packed this one is! I feel like it’s been a long time since I’ve seen some of Marc Martin’s work. This thought occurred to me just last week as I shifted more old reviews to the new…
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Picture Book Month Bonus: Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins. Illustrated by Nico Delort.
Scholastic Australia ISBN : 9781761721779 Publisher : Scholastic Inc Imprint : Scholastic Inc RRP: $49.99 Last year it was the #1 illustrated Hunger Games that was a bonus for Picture Book Month, now it’s equally sumptuous Catching Fire. This trilogy and its numerous spin-offs remains a favourite with so many around the world, myself included. There is just so much to…
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My Friend May – Julie Flett
New South Books Greystone Kids June 2025 ISBN 9781778401718 RRP: 29.99 How can I not absolutely love this one? Based on a true story and about a little girl and her friend, her black cat May, my first thought was of The Kid and Whiskers aka The Demon Spawn. This pair has been together for…
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