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Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Escape from Cuttlefish Cove- Rachel Jackson

    Riveted Press Dist: Simon & Schuster September 2024 ISBN13: 9780645869392 LIST PRICE: AU$ 17.99 / NZ$ 19.99 I don’t recall ‘choose your own adventure’ books when I was reading as a child but I certainly remember those my girls enjoyed in the 80s. My Kim’s especial favourites were the Enid Blyton adventure game series. She…

  • First Game Back: Girls Change the Game #2 – Gabrielle Gloury and Michael Hyde

    Ford St Publishing July 2023 ISBN: 9781922696304 RRP: $14.99 Fact: Kids love ‘choose your own adventure’ books – the decades roll on and this genre is as popular as ever Fact: More and more girls are playing football – of all codes. And more and more spectators are watching these games. Fact: Your kiddos who…

  • Girls Change the Game – Gabrielle Gloury/Michael Hyde

    Ford St Publishing April 2020 ISBN: 9781925804492 RRP: $14.99 Although the women’s version of Aussie Rules has been around since the early 20th century with regular competitions and state leagues being established over the years it wasn’t until 2017 that women’s AFL first became professionalised at a national level. Now with more 2 million viewers/followers,…

  • You Choose… – George Ivanoff

    RRP $14.99 Oh George, why do you do this to me? I continually bomb out – repeatedly. I must be the most hopeless ‘choose-your-own-adventurer’ ever! But they are great fun – and the kids are eating them up. I have a bunch of girls who just love the interactivity of this series – and I…

  • You Choose… Flip Me #1 & #2

    You Choose Flip Me! 1 and 2 – George Ivanoff The Treasure of Dead Man’s Cove Mayhem at Magic School You Choose Flip Me! #3 & #4 ISBN: 9780857989536 Published: 01/12/2015 Imprint: Random House Australia Children’s RRP $19.99   You Choose Flip Me! 3 and 4 Maze of Doom The Haunting of Spook House   ISBN: 9780857989550 Published: 01/12/2015 Imprint: Random…

  • You Choose series #6 & #7 – George Ivanoff

    #5 Night of the Creepy Carnival ISBN: 9780857986696 Published: 01/05/2015 Imprint: Random House Australia Children’s Extent: 160 pages RRP $14.99 #6 Alien Invaders from Beyond the Stars ISBN: 9780857986719 Published: 01/05/2015 Imprint: Random House Australia Children’s Extent: 160 pages RRP $14.99 When I received my first copies of books from this series I road tested them on my grandson who is somewhat of…