Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Our Dreaming – Kirli Saunders/Dub Leffler

    SCHOLASTIC AUSTRALIA PTY LTD August 2022 ISBN 9781742995113 RRP $24.99 Photo Credit: The Children’s Bookshop Goodjagah, little one, walk with me … I want to tell you our Dreaming as the Elders told it to me. Award-winning storytellers, Gunai woman Kirli Saunders and Bigambul man Dub Leffler, explore a deep love and respect for Country…

  • How We Came to Be: Surprising Sea Creatures – Sami Bayly

    Hachette September 2022 Imprint: Lothian Children’s Books ISBN 9780734421364  RRP $19.99 A delightful 1/2 class, at a local school which has a special focus on all things ‘ocean’, as it is located right on the very seafront, and I thoroughly enjoyed exploring the depths of the brine with Sami. Dive on in and find out…

  • Attack of the Giant Baby – David Lucas. Illustrated by Bruce Ingman

    Bloomsbury Australia August 2022 ISBN 9781408899878 Imprint Bloomsbury Children’s Books RRP: $14.99 This was absolutely great fun to share with a lovely little class of Preppies who sat completely engrossed until about 2/3 of the way when the penny started to drop. The look of delight on their little faces as they realised what was…

  • Be Careful, Xiao Xin! – Alice Pung/Sher Rill Ng

    Harper Collins September 2022 ISBN: 9781922033932 ISBN 10: 1922033936 Imprint: Working Title Press AU List Price: 24.99 AUD There will be many who will welcome this beautiful book as a fitting addition to their multi-lingual collection, and, in particular, if Mandarin is a taught language in the school. However, it will be equally well-received by those who are looking…

  • Rodney Forgets It – Michael Gerard Bauer

    Scholastic Australia July 2022 ISBN : 9781761121388 RRP: $19.99 In 2018 my kiddos, in our usual countdown to Book Week reading all the short-listed PBs, voted Rodney Loses It our winner – oddly enough, the judges agreed with us (rarely happens, in my experience!). Now Rodney is back in another hilarious but heart-warming tail –…

  • Celebrating Picture Book Month

    Picture Book Month is an international literacy initiative that celebrates the print picture book during the month of November. Every day in November a picture will be celebrated by many of us that are champions for picture books because he/she thinks picture books are important. In this digital age where people think print is dead…