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Colour Me – Ezekiel Kwaymullina & Moira Court
Fremantle Press August 2026 ISBN: 9781760996666 RRP: $19.99 ‘There’s a book for that!’ – teaching your Smalls about diversity and inclusion? teaching your smalls about figurative language like similes? teaching your Smalls about verbs? teaching your Smalls about animals? teaching your Smalls about cross-cultural perspectives? teaching your Smalls that some books are just like a poem…
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Bookish fun over just a couple of weeks ……
Reading Between the Wines Term 3 at Quick Brown Fox with wonderful creators: Zanni Louise, Allison Rocca, Samantha Wheeler and Matt Stanton with Andy Geppert popping in briefly. Then after a postponed writing workshop at Quick Brown Fox which was disappointing, I still had the joy of meeting the wonderful Kristin Darrell today for lunch…
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Spud and Snowball and Chattercat: Spud and Snowball #2 – Judith Rossell
Harper Collins Australia Imprint: ABC Books AU ISBN: 9780733343872 September 2026 Series: Spud and Snowball RRP: $15.99 They’re back! And just as funny as the first episode as these two felines of dubious talents find themselves faced with a mechanical nemesis in the shape of Chattercat. I don’t know about you but our resident mini-panther disdains any kind…
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Star of Deltora- Emily Rodda
Allen & Unwin ISBN:9781761182686 Imprint:A&U Children’s Sep 2026 RRP: $39.99 I’ll be honest – I had completely forgotten the original editions of this series and I’m thinking now that I must not have read them at the time. Quite likely because it came out at a time when I was working in purely secondary libraries…
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Witless Protection: Mega Rich Guinea Pigs #2 – Kate and Jol Temple
Harper Collins Australia June 2026 Imprint: HarperCollins AU ISBN: 9781460767214 RRP: $16.99 Series: Mega Rich Guinea Pigs They’re back! and it’s another hilarious ride with the loaded GPs as they find themselves, once again, in the throes of a dastardly plot to steal their fortune. Of course, we all know it’s going to be the ‘other’ side of…
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Bravepaw and the Songstone of the Deep: A Tail of Adventure #4 – L. M. Wilkinson. Art by Lavanya Naidu.
Allen & Unwin ISBN:9781761182167 Publisher:A&U Children’s Imprint:Albert Street Books RRP: $16.99 It’s always a little bitter-sweet when a favourite series comes to a conclusion and this one with this mousekin hero and her companions is one of the best, and therefore one of the saddest to leave. Titch and Huckleberry are a long way from…
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All the Blues in the Sky – Renée Watson
Winner of the Newbery Medal Bloomsbury August 2026 ISBN 9781547605897 Imprint Bloomsbury Children’s Books RRP: $19.99 This is such a beautiful and poignant verse/prose novel that explores grief as it impacts on a young person. And yes, we know that happens often and even just this year, I’ve had several books in which a child…
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2026 Father’s Day Special: Every Day is Special with Dad – Sarah Ayoub & Kate Moon.
Harper Collins Australia June 2026 Imprint: HarperCollins AU ISBN: 9781460765654 RRP: $24.99 I know that not every child is as lucky as I was. I had two great fathers essentially. My Father Bear until my parents divorced when I was 14 but even apart, they were both loving parents and my dad never stopped being my biggest…
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