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We’re going on an adventure!
The Kid and I are off to Adelaide just for a few days, while she has a break from TAFE. It’s another opportunity to give her a sneak peek of a part of our beautiful country she doesn’t know. I’ve been to Adelaide a few times and looking forward to re-visiting after a decade. I’m…
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Cheese! – Felice Arena. Illustrated by Beatrice Cerocchi.
Affirm Press September 2024 AUD RRP $22.99 ISBN 9781922992833 Did someone say cheese? Yes, please! Some Brie? Mais oui! Ooh la la, how fancy! Don’t forget the smelly ones: There are quite a few! Stilton, Limburger and Stinking Bishop, too. First da pasta, now da cheese! Of course! one can’t have the one without the…
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Jy Goes for Gold (Kimberley Kickers, #1) – Carl Merrison/Hakea Hustler. Illustrated by Samantha Campbell
Harper Collins Australia September 2024 It was a strange bit of serendipity when two days after posting my Q&A with Carl Merrison, in which he mentioned this new series, I was asked to write teaching notes for this first one [despite the fact that “you are a NRL girl” haha!]. It’s not like I know…
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Flora: Australia’s Most Curious Plants – Tania McCartney
National Library of Australia October 2024 9781922507716 /AUD$29.99, NZD$34.99 Try some Flora puzzles! Watch a Waratah bloom via Tania’s skills I have watched the development of this stunning companion to Fauna for months now and have eagerly anticipated its arrival. And how very beautiful it is – of course! With the meticulous attention to detail we…
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Happy Millionth Birthday – R. W. R. McDonald – Alexandra Colombo
Larrikin House July 2024 Distributed by Simon & Schuster There probably isn’t a child alive who hasn’t enjoyed their birthday celebrations so much, that they have wished it could be their birthday every day. But what if….? And that’s exactly what happens in this humorous look at ‘too much of a good thing’. As Jack…
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Bravepaw and the Heartstone of Alluria:#1 Bravepaw – L. M. Wilkinson. Art by Lavanya Naidu.
Allen & Unwin September 2024 ISBN: 9781761180552 Publisher: A&U Children’s Imprint: Albert Street Books RRP: $16.99 I can never resist a good mouse hero – Matthias of Redwall, Mrs Frisby, Desperaux, Hermelin the Detective Mouse, William Brambleberry, Stuart Little, Hermux Tantamoqor [Time Stops for No Mouse] or Herbert from The Book of Wondrous Possibilities. All…
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Wombat Stew 40th Anniversary Edition – Marcia K. Vaughan/Pamela Lofts
Scholastic Australia August 2024 It’s not that I’m not happy to see yet another old favourite with a new anniversary dress but 40 years!! EEEEK! It’s kind of hard to believe and yet, obviously it is not because apart from anything else, I bought this one for The Kid’s mum when she was a Small…
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Taronga Presents series – Kristin Darrell. Illustrations by Laura Wood.
Penguin Australia September 2024 Brand spanking new this week comes this terrific new series for junior readers who are the animal lovers in your crowd. Having raised mini-Attenborough for half her life and watched her obsession with all creatures great and small (quite literally – at one time she had 34 pets including all the…
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