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Alexander’s Outing – Pamela Allen
Penguin Australia ISBN: 9781761355134 Imprint: Puffin Format: Board Book RRP: $14.99 Who hasn’t shared the love with Alexander at some point, (or many even!) over the past 30 – THIRTY!! – years? And for those of us who are Sydney girls, it has always had a special place in our reading canon. My last outing with Alexander was about…
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The Little Engine that Could – Watty Piper
Scholastic Australia December 2024 ISBN: 9781761642449 ISBN-10: 1761642448 RRP: $19.99 As I read this [I’ve lost count of how many times I have done so over the years] ready to write this review, it is Xmas Eve. And, as happens, all my loved ones who are missing are strongly in my mind. My dear Mum, who would…
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Are We There Yet? 20th Anniversary edition – Alison Lester
Penguin Australia October 2024 ISBN: 9781761620416 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $19.99 Hands up if you’ve also forgotten how many times in the past 20 years you’ve shared this one? I know it was a focal point of my literature-based unit with Year 3s often and on many occasions, aside from all the times I’ve just read it to…
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Bamboozled: Celebrating 30 years – David Legge
ISBN : 9781760266110 Publisher : SCHOLASTIC AUSTRALIA PTY LTD Imprint : Scholastic Press October 2024 RRP: $20.00 This is another happy anniversary edition that takes me right back to the start of my t-l career. If only I had a dollar for every time I’ve read this one to my kiddos! It’s another perfect example of a picture book that can…
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Wombat Stew 40th Anniversary Edition – Marcia K. Vaughan/Pamela Lofts
Scholastic Australia August 2024 Publisher: Omnibus Books ISBN: 9781761290688 RRP: $19.99 It’s not that I’m not happy to see yet another old favourite with a new anniversary dress but 40 years!! EEEEK! It’s kind of hard to believe and yet, obviously it is not because apart from anything else, I bought this one for The Kid’s mum…
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Something Special – Emily Rodda
Harper Collins Australia July 2024 ISBN: 9781460766415 ISBN 10: 1460766415 Imprint: HarperCollins AU $17.99 Forty years ago, Emily Rodda’s first book was published by Allen & Unwin, and subsequentlywon the CBCA Younger Readers Award in 1985. Following that auspicious beginning, Emily has continued to delight and engage readers over her remarkable four decade long career, and to mark…
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Where is the Green Sheep? Celebration Book [20th Anniversary] – Mem Fox and Judy Horacek
Penguin Australia April 2024 ISBN: 9781761347832 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $19.99 Twenty years ago this was a brand new sparkling book that was a huge hit in my library lessons. Now it’s an iconic staple of our Oz Kids Lit picture book canon, still sparkling, and still a huge hit with little readers. As soon as it was…
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One Hungry Spider: 35th Anniversary edition – Jeannie Baker
Scholastic Australia November 2023 ISBN: 9781760267001 RRP: $26.99 My Garden Path : Gardening Australia Series 30/Episode 05 March 2019 I first fell in love with Jeannie Baker‘s work with her very first book, Polar. It was released long before I became a teacher, and teacher-librarian, and I had bought it for my eldest, who was…
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Feathered Philosophy…
It was quite a curious thing that on Friday, I chose two books from my review shelf to share with a Year 1 class I was taking, and they both complemented each other so perfectly. One I chose because I knew how well it is always received, the other because the title made me giggle.…
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