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Q&A with Norman Jorgensen
Greetings, Norman, and welcome to Just So Stories! Thanks so much for spending time with the readers here and giving us the lowdown on NJ’s life and times. Not everyone will have seen glimpses of your childhood via your social media, so let’s start there. What was little Norman like as a child? Tell us…
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Malkin Moonlight – Emma Cox
Bloomsbury September 2016 ISBN 97881408870846 RRP $12.99 I actually finished reading this a couple of weeks ago and the writing of this review has taken so long because this is so different and so charming I have found it difficult to find the right words. I could just say it’s an animal adventure story but…
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The Adventures of Alfie Onion – Vivian French: illustrated by Matra Kissi
Walker Books Imprint: WALKER PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781406363104 Published: 05 May 2016 Price: $14.99 Fractured fairytales are a popular writing task in many schools. In the past week the secondary girls in my ‘home’ school are writing them and in one of the local primaries in which I did a supply…
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You Choose… – George Ivanoff
RRP $14.99 Oh George, why do you do this to me? I continually bomb out – repeatedly. I must be the most hopeless ‘choose-your-own-adventurer’ ever! But they are great fun – and the kids are eating them up. I have a bunch of girls who just love the interactivity of this series – and I…
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Six – M. M. Vaughan
Simon & Schuster Margaret K. McElderry Books ISBN 9781481420709 | May 2016 This is speculative fiction for your young readers at its best. If you have kids who are into the whole premise of technology and scientific discoveries at their best – or worst – they will gobble this up. Parker Banks hates that he…
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RFDS Adventures #4 & #5 – George Ivanoff
Fast Flight (RFDS #4) Random House Australia ISBN: 9780857988829 Published: 02/05/2016 Imprint: Random House Australia Children’s RRP $14.99 Young Dillon is pretty much like any other boy of his age. He loves his cricket, his room is always pretty messy and he likes hanging with his best mate Jay. Pretty much the only thing that sets…
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Ollie’s Odyssey – William Joyce
Simon & Schuster Australia Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books 304 pages ISBN 9781442473553 April 2016 RRP $27.99 This is a Hans Christian Andersen-style tale of magic and wonder that echoes of the same tenderness as works such as The Velveteen Rabbit. When Billy is just a baby he has a problem with his heart which…
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Somebody Stop Ivy Pocket – Caleb Krisp/illustrated by John Kelly
ISBN:9781408858677 Publisher:Bloomsbury Imprint:Bloomsbury Child June 2016 RRP $14.99 That irritating and insufferable Ivy, Child Blunder extraordinaire, is back with another hair and eyebrow raising adventure. Half dead and now living with a sinister and secretive pair of undertakers who purport to be her new ‘parents’, Ivy is on a mission to save her dead friend…
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Blueberry Pancakes Forever – Angelica Banks
ISBN: 9781760110451 Publisher :Allen & Unwin Imprint: A & U Children Pub Date: June 2016 RRP $15.99 As soon as I opened the package I was bursting to read this third and last instalment in the Tuesday McGillycuddy trilogy. And so I did in one sitting, devouring it as easily and happily as Tuesday…
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A Lottie Lipton Adventure: The Scroll of Alexandria – Dan Metcalf
Allen & Unwin Australia Bloomsbury Publishing February 2016-04-02 ISBN 9781472911872 RRP $12.99 If you are looking for a new series to engage newly independent readers, you need look no further! Imagine living in a museum full of rare and wonderful objects. Lottie Lipton, nine years old, lives in the British Museum with her Great Uncle…
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