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You’ll Always Be My Baby – Jessica Urlichs. Illustrated by Jedda Robaard.
Penguin Australia Since the new year, I’ve been busy on a regular basis planning The Kid’s 21st birthday celebration. Just like her mother, she didn’t want anything, but I persuaded her otherwise, so a smallish party at home for friends, followed by a dinner for family and friends-like-family at her favourite restaurant. As I go…
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One Day Soon – Cristy Burne
Fremantle Press May 2026 ISBN: 9781760995614 RRP: $17.99 Preorder now This is another verse novel that has given me cause to reconsider my initial lukewarm thoughts about this genre. In fact, so utterly absorbing is this one, that I binge read it in one evening. I don’t know anyone personally with MND but a friend did…
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Pocket Bear – Katherine Applegate
Scholastic Australia February 2026 ISBN: 9781760266622 RRP: $18.99 Like many others I follow Katherine Applegate on her social media, I think probably I started when I first read Ivan. I was tremendously interested as she wrote about this title but didn’t expect to see it unless it came to the library. So I was absolutely…
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Just a Dog (new edition): Michael Gerard Bauer
Scholastic Australia November 2025 9781761127816 $15.99 Xmas gift for middle grade kiddos It’s been a while – 2011, we first met Mister Mosely and since then his award-winning fame has travelled the world, and it was a joy to re-visit his gentle nature, his quirky adventures, and his family. We know how much the kiddos…
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Tiny Dancer – Patrick Guest. Mateja Jager
Westwords Imprint : Peribo August 2025 ISBN: 9781923044364 RRP: $27.99 While it’s not a ‘bird’ book like the other two in today’s post, it seems most appropriate to include this gentle and beautiful fable with its winged heroine, Konomi, with those. Some of you may have read my review of Shirley Marr’s One Day earlier this year,…
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Gloam – Jack MacKay
Bloomsbury September 2025 Imprint: Oneworld ISBN: 9780861549528 RRP: $16.99 Sometimes a debut novel comes along that completely blows you away, and this would be one of those. I’m not a fan of horror, but I don’t mind a bit of creepy – this was actually quite a lot of creepy! and an enormously good read.…
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Promises and Other Lies – Sue Whiting
Walker Books Australia September 2025 ISBN13:9781760658649 Australia RRP:$17.99 New Zealand RRP:$19.99 This was absolutely a crackerjack read and I ate it up over two nights. Sue Whiting has such a deft hand with writing narratives that tackle difficult and emotive issues with grace and sensitivity, and this is a prime example. You will all, I…
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The Disappearing Circus – Helen Edwards/Kate Gordon
Riveted Press July 2025 Distributed by Simon & Schuster ISBN13: 9781763526099 RRP: AU$ 17.99 / NZ$ 19.99 I have taken my time with this, both the reading of it and the writing of the review. So much so, that I was strongly reminded of my Oddity review, four years ago, when I wrote: I read…
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My Dog – Olivia Wakeford
the story of an extraordinary friendship Harper Collins Australia ISBN: 9780008658588 ISBN 10: 0008658587 Imprint: HarperCollins GB RRP: $17.99 This one I will say was at times, a bit too close to the bone for me. That being said, it is truly a special book that will touch the hearts of sophisticated primary readers and, I would suggest,…
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