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Picture Book Month Bonus #7: Friendly Bee and Friends: Woe is for Worm! Sean E. Avery
Walker Books Australia October 2023 ISBN13:9781760654382 Australia RRP:$15.99 New Zealand RRP:$17.99 This is my first encounter with Friendly Bee and Friends, but hopefully not the last. As many or most know, I’m not a huge fan of graphics – they just don’t do it for me. But this is exactly the kind of absurdist humour…
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The Billabong Bush Dance – Amy Dunjey. Illustrated by Tyrown Waigana.
Five Mile March 2023 9781922857422 $24.99 Some of us could dance quite beautifully when we were children, and could still do a fair boogie as an adult, and even belly dance for quite a few years- until older age started creeping up and scuppered any more dance moves forever. So I, for one, can totally…
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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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In times of bushfires and billy buttons – Steven Herrick
Ford St Publishing October 2023 ISBN: 9781922696366 RRP: $19.95 Ethan’s early years were not the stuff of idyllic wholesome family stories. When both his parents went to jail for fifteen years, as the result of drug-dealing, it was either foster care as a ward of the state or living with his Aunt Helen in another…
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The Unlikely Heroes Club – Kate Foster
Walker Books Australia ISBN13:9781760655969 Imprint: Walker Books Australia Australia RRP:$16.99 New Zealand RRP:$18.99 Some of my readers will recall that I recently reviewed The Bravest Word, and may also be familiar with Paws, In her new book, Kate returns to the theme of autism that was a focus in the latter, and provides readers with…
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Leaf-Light: a story about caring for each other – Trace Balla
Allen & Unwin August 2023 ISBN:9781760526207 Publisher:A&U Children’s Imprint:A & U Children RRP: $27.99 We have come to know Trace’s books as eloquent and evocative explorations of important themes, with a deep connection to nature and to country. This new one is, I think, my favourite so far as it narrates the interconnections of a…
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It’s Not Summer Without You – Jenny Han
Book 2 in the Summer I Turned Pretty Series April 2023 Twelve years after its initial release, the second in Jenny Han’s Summer trilogy is the third of her books to be adapted for the screen, and little wonder as these have been some of the hottest books in the secondary library/young adult stakes. Belly…
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