Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Pirates of Darksea – Catherine Doyle

    Bloomsbury Australia June 2024 ISBN 9781526655103 Imprint Bloomsbury Children’s Books RRP: $16.99 I fell in love with Catherine Doyle’s writing with The Stormkeeper trilogy and when the ARC arrived for this – many months ago- I devoured it with just as much enthusiasm – and this review has been scheduled since then!! This is an…

  • #In This Together Reconciliation Week 2020 & Rocky and Louie

    Rocky & Louie – Phil Walleystack, Raewyn Caisley and Dub Leffler Penguin Australia Published: 28 April 2020 ISBN: 9780143786528 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $24.99 I’ve saved this one for this week to time with Reconciliation Week 2020 as we take up this year’s theme, which as it turns out has proven apt in even more ways than originally intended. Despite…

  • Roly Poly – Mem Fox/Jane Dyer

    Penguin Random House November 2019 ISBN: 9781760896348 Imprint: Puffin Format: Hardback RRP: $19.99 This is just adorable! Of course Mem’s story about the arrival of a little usurper in the family is just delightful and  will resonate with so many small children but aside from that. those glorious illustrations! They remind me so much of Jeannie Baker’s Polar…

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