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Pidge’s Poppies – Jan Andrews/Timothy Ide
Ford St Publishing April 2024 ISBN: 9781922696380 RRP:$26.99 It is often strange how the planets align themselves at times. It was only a few months that I took The Kid to Canberra and we spent quite a bit of time at the War Memorial discussing points of interest such as her great-grandfather, Lancaster Bombers, the…
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From the Archives: Classic Australian Christmas fare with Michael Salmon
It has been my great privilege to be friends with Michael for almost a decade now. He is not only a man of immense talent, an illustrious creative career spanning decades across genres, but is an exceptionally warm and wonderful human. One of our fondest memories, since The Kid came to live with me is…
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Blair Moon – how to be cooler than the moon: Ashleigh Mounser
Ford St Publishing October 2023 ISBN: 9781922696373 RRP: $18.99 Blair Moon is not your average 11 year old. She lives in the nursing home where her mother works, and her best friends are residents, Edgar and Nancy. Nancy is also Blair’s home school teacher, not that Blair needs much teaching as she’s more like a…
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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…
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Country Town – Isolde Martyn and Robyn Ridgeway. Illustrated by Louise Hogan.
Ford St Publishing September 2023 ISBN: 9781922696359 RRP: $19.99 I have always loved those English books that explored ‘Through Time’ e.g. A Street Through Time – the history nerd in me just revels in the minutiae from days gone by to the present. While this book doesn’t cover 12, 000 years as such, it does…
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Follow the Rainbow – Juliet M. Sampson. Illustrated by Anne Ryan.
Ford St Publishing August 2023 ISBN: 9781922696335 RRP: $17.99 This new picture book from Juliet and Ford St is a fun and colourful excursion in curiosity for your young readers. It has been inspired by both The Wizard of Oz and Juliet’s own adorable Westie, Bryce. Little Ruby is idly making shapes from the clouds…
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This Spells Trouble – Paul Collins/Sean McMullen
Ford St Publishing July 2023 ISBN:9781922696311 RRP: $17.95 This is just a riotous, joyful comic adventure from the very first page, and, I tell you now, your kids from middle school to upper will eat it up with relish! 14 year old Winton is apprenticed to a very dodgy wizard named Faramond – a lazy,…
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The Secret History of the Rainbow Trout Hotel – David Metzenthen
Ford St Publishing June 2023 ISBN: 9781922696274 RRP: $19.99 Andy Lightfoot’s gap year takes him deep into the past – at the oldand weirdly wonderful Rainbow Trout Private Hotel. Here, high in themountains, Andy discovers working for nothing gives him everything. . . and that the middle of nowhere is the centre of an amazinguniverse,…
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Pippa and the Troublesome Twins – Dimity Powell/Andrew Plant
Ford St Publishing June 2023 ISBN: 9781922696298 RRP: $17.95 Pippa is back in a new story and it is one with which many young readers will make connections. Being a big sister or brother is a very exciting time but it can also be very frustrating and leave an older sibling feeling quite resentful, no…
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