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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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Honey and the Valley of Horses – Wendy Orr
Allen & Unwin August 2023 ISBN:9781761068492 Publisher:A&U Children’s Imprint:A & U Children RRP: $17.99 In the ‘unprecedented times‘ of Covid, particularly in that first year or so, there was a seismic shift in the behaviours, attitudes and priorities of many people – and not solely for fear of infection. Undeniably there were folk who found…
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House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries – Alan Bennett
Profile Books July 2022 ISBN: 9781800811928ISBN-10: 1800811926 RRP: $14.99 It’s a perfect little gem of a book – a mere fifty pages – but they are just packed with Bennett’s trademark ascerbic wit, pithy obervations on social circumstances made all the more absurd at times by the whole Covid complication. Now in his 80s, in fact almost…
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I’m a Hero Too – Jamila Rizvi/Peter Cheong
Penguin Australia October 2020 ISBN: 9781761040115 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $19.99 While it goes without saying that all of us have had some difficulties, at the very least, in adjusting to the strange and sometimes scary year that we’ve had it is perhaps most hard for little folks who can often struggle to understand the reasons for some changes.…
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