Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe


  • Not a book – a movie

    Many of you will have read articles particularly fairly recently about the real life bear who inspired A. A. Milne’s classic stories about Winnie-the-Pooh. A recently published picture book sparked some of these. I was so delighted to pick up the DVD of the movie ‘A Bear Named Winnie’ at the local  Km*** last Friday…

  • Ugly – Robert Hoge

      ISBN: 9780733634338 Publication date: 11 Aug 2015 Page count: 160 Imprint: Hachette Australia RRP $16.99 It has taken me a while to get to review this Younger Readers’ version of Robert Hoge’s successful memoir. My Year 8 students have been working on an English task which was to research and write a feature article about an inspirational hero…