Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Bush Tukka Guide for Kids – Samantha Martin

    Hardie Grant Australia ISBN:9781741179163 Price:AU$24.99, NZ$27.99 Publisher:Hardie Grant Explore Amid the burgeoning interest in First Nations culture and practices (despite the nasty background noise of such as certain political sectors and their brainwashed acolytes), there is a steadily growing interest in cultivating traditional bush foods, as well as native plants. And where better to start…

  • Frogs are Our Friends – Toni d’Alia. Madeline White.

    Hardie Grant June 2025 ISBN:9781761212987 Price:AU$24.99, NZ$27.99 Series:Our Friends in the Garden Publisher:Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing Finishing off today with a splash that is not in the ocean – here’s a really cute rhyming book featuring so many kiddos’ favourite – the frog! This is third in a series, which I have not unfortunately seen…

  • 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…

  • Stories for Big Brothers & Sisters: four beloved Australian picture books –  Jan Ormerod, Libby Gleeson, Zanni Louise. Illustrators:  Andrew Joyner, Jedda Robaard, Anna Pignataro, Sara Acton

    Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing Imprint: Little Hare Books November 2023 ISBN 9781761213205 RRP: $29.99 A perfect book to prepare a Small for the arrival of a Smaller-still, or a gift for that Small when the new little human has arrived. These are four favourite stories about siblings that are now compiled into one of the nicest…

  • Magic Awry [Big Magic #2] – Sarah Armstrong

    Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing August 2023 ISBN: 9781760508449 Series: Big Magic RRP: $19.99 You know how sometimes, you’ve read an absolutely stonkingly good first book in a series, and when the sequel arrives you feel somewhat let down? Well, trust me, in this case, it is the very opposite. Big Magic was SO good, I…

  • Big Magic – Sarah Armstrong

    Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing May 2022 ISBN: 9781760508432 RRP: $19.99 It has certainly taken its time to come into my hands, but it was definitely worth the wait. I had heard so many good things about this book, not least of all via the chatter from The Uber Talented Critique Group (comprising some of my…