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Dogs with Jobs: the heroic hounds who make a difference – Andrea Rowe. Julia Murray
Hardie Grant October 2025 ISBN:9781761213991 Price:AU$24.99, NZ$27.99 Publisher:Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing Odd sometimes, that you get similar books within such a short time of each other. Over the past decade or so, it has happened numerous times. So yes, this is another book titled Dogs with Jobs. It will be a great companion book for…
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B for Bored: Bored – Felicita Sala
Hardie Grant December 2025 ISBN:9781761217661 Price:AU$24.99, NZ$27.99 Publisher:Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing Imprint: Little Hare Anyone with kids on holidays could easily relate to this with that pathetic moan of ‘I’m boooooored.’ But how about turning that boredom into busy-ness? Rita is bored. Really, REALLY bored. Sooooooooooooooo bored. So bored she can’t even think properly but…
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Confetti and the Rainbow Garden – Shane Jenek aka Courtney Act. Illustrated by Dylan Finney.
Hardie Grant Australia October 2025 Imprint: Pantera Press ISBN:9781763550735 Price:AU$22.99, NZ$24.99 After a hugely successful debut with their memoir Caught in the Act, Shane Jenek/Courtney Act now presents a timely book that encourages young people to understand the shades of difference between us all. Confetti is one of a group of cousins each with their…
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Weirdosaurus – Philip Bunting
Pre-history’s Most Peculiar Creatures Hardie Grant Australia September 2025 ISBN:9781761214 Price:AU$29.99, NZ$34.99 Publisher:Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing Here are some words from the publisher and the author to describe this hilarious but extremely informative book: playful, humour, witty jokes, funny anecdotes, and fabulous facts. But as it’s Philip Bunting, you would have worked that out without…
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Because it’s Book Week…
There are not so many days I miss being full-time in my libraries but, yes, Book Week with the insane preparations and the fun of dressing up [at one of my schools a different costume every day of the week!] has been one in the last couple of years. But honestly, this year I’ve been…
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Into the Bewilderness – Gus Gordon
Hardie Grant July 2025 ISBN:9781761211287 Price:AU$24.99, NZ$27.99 Publisher:Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing Where to start with this piece of magnificence, I ask myself? I know! I’ll start with this anecdote. A week or so ago, the estimable Gus Gordon was going to be at Quick Brown Fox in Grange and I had determined I would go.…
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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…
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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…
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Spectacular Snakes – Emma Flannery and Professor Tim Flannery. Illustrated by Katie Melrose.
Hardie Grant Australia December 2024 ISBN:9781761211737 Price:AU$26.99, NZ$29.99 Imprint:Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing This is big, bold and beautiful ,and younger K would have adored this book as she has been an ophiophilist from the time she was toddling after our garden skinks and geckos. Your readers from Smalls to Not-so-smalls will love it too. Katie…
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