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Pippa’s Island #1: The Beach Shack Café – Belinda Murrell
Penguin Random House ISBN 9780143783671 July 3, 2017 Random House Australia Children’s RRP: $14.99 Belinda Murrell, one of our best loved authors, has cracked it again with a splendid new series once again celebrating family, friendships, community spirit and girl power :). Throw in a simply gorgeous tropical island setting and you have a…
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The Butterfly Dance – Suzanne Barton
Allen & Unwin Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 9781408864845 ISBN-10: 1408864843 1st April 2017 RRP $24.99 Butterflies are very important in our house. We know when we see them that Mummy is watching and we can send her our messages. So this beautiful happy book was very well received. Not only is it sweet and pretty but there…
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How The Queen Found The Perfect Cup Of Tea
By Kate Hosford Illustrated by Gabi Swiatkowska ISBN: 9781467739047 Imprint: Lerner PG – Carolrhoda Books Distributor: Walker Australia-HEDS April 1, 2017 Australian RRP: $24.99 New Zealand RRP: $27.99 Life as the Queen is pretty luxurious. There are maids to help one get dressed each day and footmen to serve delicious beverages and food. Still, this particular Queen grows very dissatisfied especially with…
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Crazy Characters & Daft Deeds
I’ve chosen to review these two books on the same post as to me they are similar in many ways all of which will appeal to their audience. Both Colin Thompson and A.F. Harrold have a singular and individualised way of providing satirical humour for a pint-sized readership. They also both employ that every…
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The Famishing Vanishing Mahoosive Mammoth – Hollie Hughes/Leigh Hodgkinson
Allen & Unwin Australia ISBN: 9781408862780 Publisher: Bloomsbury Imprint: Bloomsbury Child Pub Date: August 2016 RRP $14.99 This hilarious rhyming book is just pure good fun for little readers. The huge hairy mammoth has a ‘ridiculously large appetite’ and his great friend the Bug is beginning to despair of ever finding the snack that will…
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Archie Green and the Alchemist’s Curse – D. D. Everest
Allen & Unwin Australia ISBN: 9780571307418 Publisher: Faber Imprint: Faber Children Pb Pub Date: August 2016 $14.99 Move over Harry, you have a rival for my affections! Somehow or other I missed the first book in this fabulous series (that will need to be redressed ASAP) but no matter, I was able to pick…
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Be a Friend – Salina Yoon
Bloomsbury August 2016 ISBN 9781408809093 RRP $14.99 There are plenty of children who are different in some way or another and often they are subject to being ‘left out’. Dennis is quite an ordinary boy but he communicates in somewhat an extraordinary way. When his classmates do ‘show and tell’ Dennis mimes his news.…
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The Moonlight Dreamers – Siobhan Curham
ISBN: 9781406365825 Imprint: WALKER PAPERBACK Distributor: Harper Collins Distribution Services for Australia and New Zealand Release Date: July 1, 2016 Australian RRP: $16.99 New Zealand RRP: $18.99 Four teenage girls couldn’t be more different in personality, home life, culture or beliefs; yet one thing brings them together. They are all fed up with other people, whether peers or adults, telling…
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Princess Betony and the Hobgoblin – Pamela Freeman/illustrated by Tamsin Ainslie
ISBN: 9781921720260 Imprint: WALKER BOOKS AUST July 2016 RRP $12.99 This is a series new to me (thank you so much to Walker Books for adding me to your reviewer list!!) and I think it is just delightful judging by this one. Princess Betony is not exactly your average princess. She doesn’t much like wearing fussy dresses…
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