Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Plenty of Peppa!

      Penguin Random House Australia More for the Peppa Pig fans coming your way! The Pig family and their happy adventures are the stuff little people’s dreams are made of really so it’s just as well the books just keep on coming to complement the television show. George and the Dinosaur January 2020 ISBN: 9780241392478 Imprint: Ladybird…

  • Animasaurus – Tracey Turner, illustrated by Harriet Russell

    Bloomsbury UK Imprint: Bloomsbury Child ISBN 9781408884850 RRP:  $26.99 Did you know: A shark as long as a bus roamed the oceans? Hamsters with horns once burrowed the Earth? Giant armadillos grew to the size of a family car?  Oh yes, this very much satisfies my love of engaging information books for children!  Explore the…

  • Return of the Dinosaurs _- Bronwyn Houston Magabala Books November 2016 ISBN:9781925360370 RRP $17.99 Over the years as a teacher-librarian I’ve probably lost count of the number of dinosaur books, both factual and fictional, I’ve seen or read or bought or circulated. This is the first one I have ever seen which incorporates an awareness…

  • Dinosaur Disco – Deborah Kelly

    ISBN: 9780857981363 Published: 01/10/2015 Imprint: Random House Australia Children’s Extent: 32 pages Really we can never get enough of dinosaurs! Boys or girls, fiction or nonfiction, surely they must be one of the most eternally popular choices for kids’ books. In our house this is most definitely true and we loved the crazy dinos shaking their booties and the…