Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Spud and Snowball and the Fancy Fish – Judith Rossell

    Harper Collins Australia September 2025 Continuing the impromptu ‘cat’ theme is this deliciously funny new title from Judith Rossell, which will be perfect for your newly independent readers. These are two cats that are the very epitome of their species. They are self-indulgent, wilful, cheeky, devious, greedy and utterly hilarious in their conniving antics. One…

  • Ebb & Flo series – Laura & Philip Bunting

    Hardie Grant Australia Ebb & Flo: Short Cut June 2025 ISBN:9781761214790 Price:AU$11.99, NZ$13.99 These are the first I’ve seen in this series but I’m sure they won’t be the last. And how good is it to see another set of titles for those emergent, newly independent readers that is FUN as well as providing some…

  • More School of Monsters – Sally Rippin. Art by Chris Kennett.

    Hardie Grant Australia April 2025 Price:AU$10.99, NZ$11.99 Series:School of Monsters Imprint:Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing ISBN:9781761213502 Bee makes a wish. The monsters stare.What’s that growing from her hair? ISBN:9781761213519 Bill and Ben both love to sing,but each one sings a different thing! It’s more rhyming fun and reading confidence with two new instalments in the hugely successful School of Monsters…

  • School of Monsters series- Sally Rippin. Art by Chris Kennet.

    Hardie Grant Children’s October 2024 Leggy Peggy ISBN: 9781761213496 RRP: $10.99 Super-fast Skelly October 2024 ISBN: 9781761213489 RRP: $10.99 Fairly recently I had the pleasure of sharing an online discussion with our Laureate, Sally Rippin (thanks to YKR) in which much of her content was focused on the need for us all to support those…

  • Hello Twigs series : Andrew McDonald/Ben Wood

    Hardie Grant Imprint: Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing August 2023 RRP: $9.99 If you have the littles constantly wanting to borrow graphics, then this series will be a godsend to you. From the dynamic creative team that brought us The Real Pigeons, these new books tick a lot of boxes: develop reading skills, encourage a love…