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Creature Corridors – Billie Rooney and Anke Noack
CSIRO Publishing February 2025 | $ 26.99ISBN: 9781486318100 For kiddos who love learning about nature and our wildlife (which is most of them really), this will be not only a fun read but informative as well. Quite a few will be able to make connections to their own neighbourhoods and environs, as even in more…
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Mim and the Mother Muddle: The Travelling Bookshop # 6 – Katrina Nannestad
Harper Collins Australia March 2025 Young fans of this delightful series will be excited for this new one, in which we finally get to meet Mim’s mother. The travelling bookshop has arrived in Salzburg, which was not their intended destination, but as usual Flossy, the Clydesdale, knows exactly where they ought to be. And, indeed,…
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My Mum is the Best – Nic McPickle. Tommy Doyle
Allen & Unwin Imprint: Albert St Books March 2025 ISBN:9781761181160 RRP: $19.99 This one is a truckload of fun for a Mother’s Day read (or gift!) with a lively text full of rhymes and humour. My mum is a Super Mum, the best I’ve ever known.She loves her trackies and her uggs, her coffee and…
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Taronga for the Tinies
Penguin Australia The surge in zoo and animal books is not just for the older readers. Here are some adorable board books for the Smallests in your circle. Taronga: We’re Going to the Zoo: Taronga Conservation Society Australia Cate James March 2025 RRP: $16.99 An outing to the zoo is always exciting with so many animals…
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Neeka and the Missing Key: Wilder Zoo #1 – Tina Strachan
Harper Collins Last night (13/03) I had another wonderful evening at Quick Brown Fox bookshop for a Reading Between the Wines event. Tina Strachan was one of the authors, and it was fortuitous that I had just read this first in her series. We all know that so many kiddos are mad for animal stories,…
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Wonders Under the Moon – Tai Snaith
A Collection of Night-time Creatures Thames & Hudson February 2025 ISBN: 9781760764166 RRP: $26.99 It would be fair to say I see a lot of animal books, and really they’re all lovely and the kiddos think they’re marvellous too. But sometimes there those that really stand out. This is one of them. I haven’t seen its…
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What Noise Does the Baby Make? Jacinta Froud. Illustrated by Cat MacInnes.
Windy Hollow Books June 2024 ISBN 9781921136740 RRP; $26.99 This is a perfectly delightful noisy book for reading aloud to Smalls, and, as we know, those littlest humans LOVE noisy books! If a chick goes CHEEP and a cow goes MOO What noise does the rooster make? COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO! Be prepared for many raucous repeated readings…
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Encyclopedia of…. :for Young Readers x3 : Birds, Animals and Plants, Fungi and Lichen
New South Books Publisher: Albatros Media Encyclopedia of Birds – Tomáš Tůma 9788000063508/ December 2022/AUD$29.99, NZD$34.99 Encyclopedia of Animals: Tomáš Tůma 9788000063522/1 November 2022/AUD$29.99, NZD$34.99 Encyclopedia of Plants, Fungi and Lichens – Tereza Němcová/Tomáš Pernický 9788000063515/1 December 2022/AUD$29.99, NZD$34.99 This delightful series (there are more it seems) appeals hugely to my inner nerdy child and,…
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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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