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The Australia Survival Guide – George Ivanoff
Penguin Australia October 2019 ISBN: 9780143796572 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $24.99 George Ivanoff is not just a pretty face. Under that luxuriant mop of ever-changing hair there’s an inventive and clever brain which can produce not only awesome adventures of the fictional kind for readers but now the ultimate field guide to surviving in the harsh reality of…
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Sleep tight, Platypup – Renee Treml
Penguin February 2019 ISBN: 9780143789697 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $19.99 I always find something entirely magical about Renee’s books. Both her text and her illustrations are equally charming and so beautifully suited to little readers. As a child I knew what it was to be afraid of the dark. I did eventually grow out of it (well except for…
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Wilam [a Birrarung Story] – Aunty Joy Murphy & Andrew Kelly with illustrations by Lisa Kennedy
Walker Books April 2019 ISBN: 9781925381764 Imprint: Black Dog Books Australian RRP: $24.99 New Zealand RRP: $27.99 For the many readers who loved Welcome to Country and those who are committed to developing a quality collection of First Australian resources, this is a superb addition to your shelves. The text along with the richly detailed illustrations offers readers a…
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Leaving the Lyrebird Forest – Gary Crew. Illustrated by Julian Laffan.
Hachette Imprint: Lothian Children’s Books September 2018 9780734418432 $16.99 Gary Crew has created a narrative which is not only redolent of the quintessential Australian bush life – which is now mostly disappeared from our landscape – but also encourages the reader to think about the future for both humans and wildlife. Are you lonely here?’…
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The Gum Family Finds a Home – Tania McCartney/Christina Booth
Publisher: National Library of Australia Edition: 1st Edition ISBN: 9780642279255 Publication Date: 01 August 2018 Tania McCartney is not only one of my very favourite author/illustrators but also one of my favourite humans. This impossibly talented woman is clever, stylish, generous, beautiful inside and out and passionate about our unique country. It took a while…
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Our Birds: Ŋilimurruŋgu Wäyin Malanynha – Siena Stubbs
Magabala Books Published:Apr 2018 ISBN:9781925360981 RRP: $17.99 Young Yolgnu woman Siena Stubbs was just twelve years old when her interest in photography began. At first taking pictures with her iPad she later began more serious photography after the gift of a camera. It wasn’t long at all before her beautiful work found…
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Benny Bungarra’s Big Bush Clean-up – Sally Morgan/Ambelin Kwaymullina
Magabala Books Author:Sally Morgan Illustrator:Ambelin Kwaymullina Published:Jun 2018 ISBN:9781925360882 RRP: $16.99 What a great way to kick off NAIDOC week! This is a terrific new book which mixes animals and vivid colours into a powerful message for little people about caring for our environment and our animals’ habitats. Benny Bungarra is very busy as one…
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Bill Baillie: The Life and Adventures of a Pet Bilby – Ellis Rowan
Publisher: National Library of Australia Edition: 1st Edition ISBN: 9780642279200 Publication Date: 01 March 2018 RRP: $24.99 Aptly in time for Easter (Bilbies not Bunnies!!) this is a beautiful abridged adaptation of Ellis Rowan’s fictionalised account of the little orphan bilby she raised and kept as a pet. The original was published in 1908 as…
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My Australia – Julie Murphy/Garry Fleming
National Library of Australia April 2018 9780642279163 RRP $24.99 Those of us of a certain vintage will have vivid memories of learning off by heart Dorothea MacKellar’s famous poem My Country at school. For many I guess it may have been a trial but for me it was a joy, not least of all because…
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