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Tomato Sandwich – an encore!
Many of you will already have Tomato Sandwich in your collections [if you don’t – why on earth not? Get thee to the bookshop forthwith!] and will have seen my review of a few months ago. Now it gives me the greatest pleasure to tell you that there are now teaching notes available, to help…
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The Silken Thread – Gabrielle Wang
Penguin Australia July 2025 ISBN: 9781761350740 Imprint: Penguin RRPP: $17.99 This beautiful new novel from former Laureaute and multi-award winner, Gabrielle Wang, is an absolutely outstanding, and almost mystical, exploration of East meets West. It is not a time-slip but rather a shift in the universe, from Chongming Island in China to Melbourne, Australia, with two very…
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Cloud. Wind. Wave. Atlas -Sarah Zambello. Susy Zanella.
Thames & Hudson 2024/2025 ISBN: 9781760764500/ISBN: 9781760764524/ISBN: 9781760764517 RRP: $34.99 I have often mentioned that Small Person Me was a bit of a non-fiction nerdy kid and as such I had a passing interest in all sorts of topics. Most usually from my brother’s ‘general’ non-fiction books though I did have some of my own that were specific…
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Into the Bewilderness – Gus Gordon
Hardie Grant July 2025 ISBN:9781761211287 Price:AU$24.99, NZ$27.99 Publisher:Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing Where to start with this piece of magnificence, I ask myself? I know! I’ll start with this anecdote. A week or so ago, the estimable Gus Gordon was going to be at Quick Brown Fox in Grange and I had determined I would go.…
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The Mushroom in the Sky – Jackie French
Harper Collins Australia July 2025 ISBN: 9781460766057 ISBN 10: 1460766059 Imprint: HarperCollins AU RRP: $17.99 If there’s anything more exciting than new Jackie French historical fiction, it’s getting your hands on it before anyone else and writing teaching notes for it. In light of the 80th Anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing coming up (and ergo, the end of…
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Anna’s War – DJ Taylor
Riveted Press Simon & Schuster July 2025 ISBN13: 9781763526075 RRP: AU$ 17.99 / NZ$ 19.99 Aside from, of course, Anne Frank’s diary I knew very little about life for the Dutch during the war. I did glean some from Tulips for Breakfast when I read and reviewed it. But this astonishing debut novel from DJ…
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The Year We Escaped – Suzanne Leal
Harper Collins Australia June 2025 ISBN: 9781460765906 ISBN 10: 1460765907 Imprint: HarperCollins AU List Price: 17.99 AUD Suzanne Leal’s Running with Ivan was a book that took me to a very different part of the Second World War, and it was a privilege to write the teaching notes for it. I was lucky enough to be asked to write…
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Beyond the Shore – Kirli Saunders. Illustrated by Mark Chester Harding.
ISBN : 9781761524646 Publisher : SCHOLASTIC AUSTRALIA PTY LTD Imprint : Scholastic Press RRP: $26.99 I had the great pleasure of listening to Kirli Saunders speak about her work, back in May so had special interest in seeing this new title. I was also particularly interested to see the illustrations from debut picture book illustrator, Mark Chester Harding. There is an…
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Inkbound: Meticulous Jones and the Skull Tattoo – Phillipa Leathley
Harper Collins Australia January 2025 ISBN: 9780008660956 ISBN 10: 0008660956 Imprint: HarperCollins GB List Price: 17.99 AUD While it took me a while to get to this on the review shelf, and then it’s taken me a few weeks to get the review written, it only took me two sessions to actually read this completely enthralling and wildly different…
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The Poisoned King: Impossible Creatures #2 – Katherine Rundell
Bloomsbury ISBN 9781408897454 (p/b) Imprint Bloomsbury Children’s Books RRP: $18.99 (P/b) $29.99 (H/b) $15.19 ebook editions I have raved over Impossible Creatures since I first ate it up greedily and, trust me, I am not the only one. Evidence of that is in the fact that it was the Children’s Book of the Year in…
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