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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 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 a year ago with a…
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Lucky – Amelia Tonta & Peter Baldwin
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 Tonta [the artist formerly known as Amelia McInerney] book, the python in question is a pet of no scruples…
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Koala Koala – John Williamson. Illustrated by Jonathan Bentley.
Penguin Australia April 2025 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 Blinky Bill, Koala…
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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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Mr Duckins’ Chickens: Paw Prints series – Mick Elliott
Walker Books June 2025 ISBN13:9781760659080 Australia RRP:$12.99 New Zealand RRP:$14.99 It’s a new series for your little newly independent readers who are ready to flap their reading wings a little more. At around 60 pages long and highly entertaining, it would also be a great ploy to introduce some of your more hesitant or reluctant…
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Gregor the Overlander: #1 The Underland Chronicles – Suzanne Collins
Scholastic Australia April 2025 ISBN: 9781761648335 RRP: $19.99 First published in 2003, well before the Hunger Games, this is a well-loved adventure/fantasy that will both intrigue, delight and, at times, freak your kiddos out. There are always rats in sewers, this we know, and there have been stories about creatures of all kinds living under cities…
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Down the Plot Hole – Annaleise Byrd
Walker Books April 2025 ISBN13:9781760659059 Australia RRP:$16.99 New Zealand RRP:$18.99 Annaleise Byrd’s second fractured fairytale is as highly amusing as the first. Basil and Terry resume their reading schedule, continuing on with Grimms’ Fairytales, though Basil is very uncertain about the whole idea of going back into fairytale with all its uncertainties – and dangers!…
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