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The Drought Kangaroo – Jackie French
Harper Collins Australia October 2025 ISBN: 9781460765197 ISBN 10: 1460765192 Imprint: HarperCollins AU List Price: 24.99 AUD A new Jackie French is always a moment for celebration. When I’m invited to write supporting notes for one, I’m even more excited. This new one follows on from The Fire Wombat and The Turtle and the Flood in the sense that…
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Aussie Native Plants A-Z – Joey Farrell. Jocelyn Gibson
ISBN: 9781922643551 ISBN-10: 1922643556 Published: 23rd October 2023 Publisher: Boolarong Press This gorgeous book was sent to me kindly from Boolarong Press some time ago – though not as long ago as its publishing date! It has been waiting patiently for Picture Book Month though and it’s timely to sit with some of these others on our rich nature…
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Where the River Runs Free – Vikki Conley. Jedda Robaard.
Windy Hollow Books July 2025 ISBN: 9781922998217 AUD$29.95, NZD$34.99 This spring weather is just glorious and a perfect time for a family walk out in the beauty and calm of nature. Why not follow the example of this family as they take an adventurous walk along the local river. What might they see? A frog?…
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Just So Stories’ Picture Book Month 2025
Picture Book Month has long been celebrated in November, and though in many locations it is now marked in other months, here at Just So Stories I still dedicate this month to the joy and wonder of picture books – if it’s good enough for the Carnegie Library, it’s good enough for me, thank you…
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The Hullabaloo about Elephant Poo – Dee White. Illustrated by Christopher Nielsen.
Harper Collins Australia December 2024 ISBN: 9781460766194 ISBN 10: 1460766199 Imprint: HarperCollins AU RRP: $24.99 To finish off this year’s Picture Book month – ta dah!!! I’ve been waiting and waiting to share this one and I was really hoping that the notes I wrote for it would be already up in their published format [fingers crossed they…
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The Other Side of the Clouds – Matt Samuel/Tamblyn Teow
Distributed by Simon & Schuster Riveted Press August 2024 ISBN13: 9780645869354 LIST PRICE: AU$ 26.99 / NZ$ 29.99 Some people seem to have difficulty employing sophisticated picture books. This is a topic which I have touched on previously, and you will find a list I made for a group fairly recently with some suggestions for…
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Mammalia; an illustrated guide to the world of mammals – Lindy Mattice
New South Books Bushel & Peck 9781638191285 / July 2024 / AUD$49.99, NZD$57.99 This is likely the last of my animal books for this year (but you never know!) and what a beauty it is too. While it is an absolute treasure chest of interesting, relevant information with the addition of quite quirky quick facts, it is the…
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Meerkat Mayhem – Mem Fox and Judy Horacek
Penguin Australia November 2024 ISBN: 9780143777687 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $19.99 You will find numerous posts here referencing Mem Fox, going back almost the entire decade of the blog’s existence, including an insightful Q&A posted back in 2019. My joy in Mem’s work and her presence goes back many years. Possum Magic was a book I bought to share…
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Sleepy Sheepy and the Sheep-Over! Lucy Ruth Cummins. Illustrated by Pete Oswald
Walker Books Australia September 2024 ISBN13:9781760658953 Australia RRP:$19.99 New Zealand RRP:$24.99 Strangely enough, I just had a conversation with a friend over lunch this past week about children’s first sleepovers. Her older grandchild has slept over regularly while the little sister was having her first experience this weekend [as I write this 24/11]. I commented…
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