Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • UnBEARable – Kathryn Apel/Beau Wylie

    Scholastic Australia January 2026 We love a fractured fairytale – we do, we do!! By ‘we’ I mean those of us who teach and regularly teach fairytales. And that’s as much a part of secondary literacy as it is primary-based. Traditional tales – in all their guises: fairytale, folk tale, myths, legends, Dreaming stories –…

  • Brainy about Bears – Owen Davey

    Walker Books September 2024 Imprint: Flying Eye Books ISBN13:9781838741617 Australia RRP:$29.99 New Zealand RRP:$32.99 Oh how I LOVE Owen Davey’s books! Sadly, I don’t always get sent all of them 😦 and I wish I had , because my nerdy inner child just adores his retro style and his fascinating facts. There are now about…

  • Bear Out There – Jacob Grant

    Bloomsbury July 2019 ISBN: 9781526607416 Imprint: Bloomsbury Children’s Books   RRP: $14.99 We all need a friend who will help us out at times and when that friend goes way beyond their ‘comfort zone’ it’s even more special. Bear and Spider are great friends but they are very different. Spider loves being outdoors with the…

  • A Beginner’s Guide to Bear Spotting – Michelle Robinson/David Roberts

    Published: March 2016 ISBN: 9781681190266 Imprint: Bloomsbury USA Childrens RRP $22.99 We all know that kids love offbeat humour and this is certainly a book that will tick that box. Bear spotting is a tricky business so if you’re going searching you need to be prepared with all the information required.   For example did…

  • Not a book – a movie

    Many of you will have read articles particularly fairly recently about the real life bear who inspired A. A. Milne’s classic stories about Winnie-the-Pooh. A recently published picture book sparked some of these. I was so delighted to pick up the DVD of the movie ‘A Bear Named Winnie’ at the local  Km*** last Friday…