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Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

Hedgehog or Echidna? – Ashleigh Barton and Amandine Thomas

Hachette July 2025 9780734422682 | RRP $24.99 There are lots of ‘look-alike’ critters in the animal kingdom and your readers will take great delight in this book which looks at many of those. The lively rhyming text will engage them and, of course, enable some prediction as you or they read. And the fruitful discussions that can…

August 22, 2025
The Sea in Me – Cody Simpson. Written with Jess Black. Illustrated by Amandine Thomas.

Penguin Australia June 2024 ISBN: 9781761049965 Imprint: Penguin $19.99 One of the reasons we love where we live is that it is only a five minute walk to the sea. We see the placid ripples of Moreton Bay every single day and it never fails to soothe us, no matter how we are feeling or what kind…

August 3, 2024

Hedgehog or Echidna? – Ashleigh Barton and Amandine Thomas