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Picture Book Month Bonus: Rory Sparkes and the Elephant in the Room – Hugh Bonneville
Bloomsbury Australia October 2025 ISBN 9781526685957 Imprint Bloomsbury Children’s Books RRP: $17.99 Most people would know that I’m very wary of books by ‘celebrity’ authors but I am always willing to take a punt when a) I know that it is the person themselves that has written it (or that their collaborator/ghost writer is clearly…
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Catty Corner: #1 and #2 – Julie Murphy
I’ve been a fan of Julie Murphy’s writing since I first read Dumplin’ [wow! ten years old now!] when she gave fat girls back the power (by the way, the movie was pretty good too, if you’ve not seen it yet!). This is a new series for younger readers to MG, and again, puts the…
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Music Camp – Penny Tangey
UQP June 2025 9780702269028 A$16.99 If you’re looking for a character-driven middle grade novel to explore characterisation, and particularly, introduce the literary concepts of archetypes and tropes, this would be a good choice. You could very easily use this as a class serial read and then unpack these points and the accompanying themes with a…
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