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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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2026 Father’s Day Special: My Dad Makes the World Go Around and Around – Maddy Mara. Illustrated by Andrew Joyner.
Harper Collins Australia June 2026 Imprint: HarperCollins AU ISBN: 9781460767146 RRP: $24.99 What a wonderfully exuberant rhyming romp this one is! Filled with Andrew Joyner’s unmistakable art with some whacky inventions and gadgets and just one of many fathers doing extraordinary yet ordinary stuff with their kiddos. This one just happens to be rather a Caractacus Potts…
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