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Lucky – Amelia Tonta & Peter Baldwin
Publisher: Affirm Kids (May 27, 2025) Distributed by Simon & Schuster ISBN13: 9781923022171 RRP: AU$ 22.99 / NZ$ 27.99 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…
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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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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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The Marvellous Submarine -Zane Clayton Comber (The Marvellous Submarine, #1) Clayton Zane Comber. Connor McCammon
Harper Collins Australia April 2025 ISBN: 9781460766804 ISBN 10: 1460766806 Imprint: HarperCollins AU List Price: 17.99 AUD This hails the start of a new series, co-written and illustrated by this pair from Kiama [one of my favourite places in the country] which will completely hook your young readers, particularly those who have been languishing for more Treehouse-like books. It…
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The Bogan Book Club – John Larkin
Publisher: Larrikin House (December 4, 2024) ISBN13: 978192280489 RRP: $29.99 You know how sometimes you’ve waited patiently for something, and it turns out to be a massive disappointment… movie, a meal, a night out – whatever – and you’re left feeling completely ripped off? This is not one of those occasions. I had some slim…
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The Frog Squad #2: Bungle in the Jungle – Kate and Jol Temple. Illustrated by Shiloh Gordon.
Harper Collins Australia December 2024 ISBN: 9781460716410 ISBN 10: 1460716418 Imprint: HarperCollins List Price: 12.99 AUD The Temple two have such a fabulous skill in creating hugely humorous reads for kids, without degenerating into crassness. It is one of the reasons I love reviewing their books. And the Frog Squad is certainly proving to be a hilarious delight with…
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Adventures Unlimited #1: The Land of Lost Things – Andy Griffiths. Illustrated by Bill Hope
Pan Macmillan Australia August 2024 Imprint: Pan Australia ISBN: 9781761268267 RRP: $16.99 By coincidence the Ipswich StoryFest starts today [4/8] and it was at that kids lit festival, very early on in my teacher-librarian career (possibly around 1998?) that I first met Andy Griffiths and enjoyed the uproarious hilarity of his presentation [the exploding check out…
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