-
Finding Our Heart: a story about the Uluru Statement for Young People – Thomas Mayo[r]. Illustrated by Blak Douglas.
Hardie Grant Australia June 2020 ISBN: 9781741177176 Imprint: Hardie Grant Explore RRP: $26.99 Four years after its release, and as I’ve just created a presentation for YABBA’s virtual author’s program on Thomas Mayo, it seems like a great time to include this one in this year’s NAIDOC collation. Thomas wrote his first book, Finding the…
-
Creativity: your daily gift – Meredith Gaston Masnata
Hardie Grant November 2023 ISBN: 9781743799154ISBN-10: 1743799152 RRP: $29.99 If you have come thus far, and not yet discovered Meredith Gaston Masnata‘s glorious books, do yourself a favour and rush to your nearest bookstore. I first discovered them a few years back when I was revamping our very tired, very boring, very neglected non-fiction collection and we were…
-
7 Days of Dinner – Adam Liaw
Easy Recipes From Meat-free Monday to Sunday Roasts Hardie Grant Books October 2023 ISBN: 9781743799765 RRP: $49.99 He had me at best-ever garlic bread! You know that meme about the hardest thing about adulting is trying to think what to have for dinner for the rest of your life? [by the way, watch this –…
-
Picture Book Month 2023 is a wrap!
November is Picture Book Month, a tribute to the enduring importance of the picture book form. Dianne de Las Casas (author & storyteller) and her team co-founded the month-long celebration to champion the power and beauty of picture books: In this digital age where people are predicting the coming death of print books, picture books (the print kind) need love. And…
-
Nothing Alike – Zewlan Moor/Peter Cheong
Hardie Grant Publishing August 2023 ISBN: 9781761212239ISBN-10: 1761212230 Imprint: Bright Light RRP: $22.99 #sorrywrongasian. In case you missed the Twitter (remember that?) avalanche of 2021, the whole issue of being an ‘interchangeable Asian‘ and microaggression was highlighted when a slew of reports of ‘mistaken Asian identity’ was reported by Asian-Americans across the country. This particular form of…
-
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…
-
Plume: Christmas Elf – Tania McCartney
Hardie Grant Australia October 2023 ISBN: 9781741177923 RRP: $24.99 You would be hard-pressed to find a more sparkling author/illustrator than the ever-elegant, super-stylish, tremendously-talented Tania McCartney, and, therefore, how utterly appropriate that this beautiful new Plume story is just as sparkly as its creator. I have been in love with Plume since first meeting, having…
-
A Joyful Life – Rosemary Karinki, with Summer Land
Hardie Grant March 2023 ISBN:9781741177886 Publisher:Hardie Grant Explore RRP: $34.99 I’ve been reading a lot of kids’ books the past few weeks so to have a couple of bios/memoirs has been good. I’ve had this one sitting to one side (i.e. moving box!) for a few months, it was wonderful to finally get to it…
Just So Stories 
You must be logged in to post a comment.