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Bluey: The Sign
Penguin Australia Close enough to include it in my picture books, this is the stand-out episode that many kids will have seen, and now they can read it as well. In the cutest graphic novel format, find out what happens when the For Sale goes up in the front yard of the Heelers’ place. Bluey,…
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Hannah Backwards – Kim Rackham
I think this is very possibly the first verse novel for younger readers I’ve come across to review, and I think it will be very popular with many of them. Much of the action in this narrative is eminently relatable to many kiddos. The worries that beset them, the losses they meet with, making mistakes…
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Sleepy Sheepy and the Sheep-Over! Lucy Ruth Cummins. Illustrated by Pete Oswald
Walker Books Australia September 2024 ISBN13:9781760658953 Australia RRP:$19.99 New Zealand RRP:$24.99 Strangely enough, I just had a conversation with a friend over lunch this past week about children’s first sleepovers. Her older grandchild has slept over regularly while the little sister was having her first experience this weekend [as I write this 24/11]. I commented…
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Ella and the Amazing Frog Orchestra – Cassy Polimeni. Illustrated by Hykie Breeze
UWA Publishing July 2024 ISBN: 9781760802899 RRP: $15.99 I had to wait a while to get my hands on this one but it was definitely worth the wait. This is the first in a four book series by relative newcomer Cassy Polimeni and it is a super start indeed. Ella, and her family, has just…
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Everything Anxiety Ever Told You is a Lie
*Well, almost everything! Exisle Publishing June 2024 ISBN: 9781922539991 RRP: $37.99 Just a week or so ago, we went to see Inside Out 2. We loved the first one and had been waiting on this one even more, especially The Kid because she was keen to see how Anxiety was handled. We are a family to…
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When the Lights Went Out – Lian Tanner. Illustrations by
July 2024 ISBN:9781761180019 Publisher:A&U Children’s Imprint:A & U Children RRP: $24.99 You know when you see these creators’ names on a cover, that you are going to get something quite special, and indeed, we do with this gorgeous new picture book. For many of us, an unexpected black-out is a trial… an annoying inconvenience…….a genuine…
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The Kindness Project – Deborah Abela
Penguin Australia May 2024 I have followed Deborah’s progress with this one for the duration of its development, and been eager to read it. And yayyy! it arrived the day before yesterday (27/3). As it happens, I had done a day’s relief teaching in Christian Studies at my local Lutheran primary that same day, and…
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Sam the Snowman – Laura Mennecozzi. Illustrated by Noemi Cesanelli
Busybird Publishing October 2023 ISBN: 9781922954466 RRP: $14.99 Those of us still working with children know all too well just how greatly they were impacted by the pandemic, both at the time, as well as with the continuing after-effects. So any book that we can share with Smalls to encourage some reflection on anxious times,…
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Tarni’s Chance – Paul Collins & Jules Ober
Ford St July 2022 ISBN: 9781922696052 RRP: $24.99 This is a stunning collaboration between these two fine creators. Paul’s ease and expertise in handling sensitive issues is well established and coupled with Jules’ fantastic mini-sculptures brings this beautiful and poignant story to life with an elegance that will entrance your readers. Tarni withdraws from the…
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