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Lila MacKay is Very Misunderstood – Gill Sims
Harper Collins Australia December 2025 ISBN: 9780008513788 ISBN 10: 0008513783 Imprint: Farshore Fiction GB RRP: $19.99 If you have followed and shrieked with laughter over Gill Sims’ FB posts Peter and Jane over the years or read her books e.g. the Why Mummy Drinks series , you will know instantly that this book is utterly hilarious. It is…
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Easter Cuddle – Kate Mayes. Sara Acton
Harper Collins Australia Imprint: ABC Books January 2026 ISBN: 9780733343711 ISBN 10: 0733343716 RRP: $24.99 Two talented creators team up again for this one which will delight tiny readers, and would make a superb Easter gift for a newly arrived little human. The Easter Bunny at our house always delivered a new book each as well as…
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Are you the Easter Bunny? – Janeen Brian. Lucinda Gifford
Harper Collins Australia January 2026 ISBN: 9781460765494 ISBN 10: 1460765494 Imprint: HarperCollins AU RRP: $24.99 What a sublime pairing of creators here! Janeen’s rhyming text is just a delight, and especially her descriptive bilby body parts e.g. sniffer-snout, scritcher-scratchers and bottom-wiggler. Although an aficionado of rabbits in general – obviously, given the family name! – I am completely…
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Neeka and the Great Search: #3 Wilder Zoo – Tina Strachan. Illustrated by Max Hamilton.
Harper Collins Australia Imprint: Angus & Robertson ISBN: 9781460764572 ISBN 10: 1460764579 RRP: $16.99 I would be seriously surprised if anyone had missed the charming trilogy now at its conclusion. What a credit it is to this debut author, Tina Strachan, to start off with such a crackerjack set of books! For me, there’s the added bonus…
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A Song for the King – Katrina Nannestad. Freya Black.
Harper Collins Australia September 2025 ISBN: 9780733343315 ISBN 10: 0733343317 Imprint: ABC Books AU RRP: $24.99 Honestly, would you expect anything less than marvellous from this pair of celebrated creators? This is a truly lovely and fresh take on the nativity that will appeal to your Smalls greatly. It will also pave the way for some interesting discussions…
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This is an Elf – Beck & Matt Stanton
Harper Collins Australia August 2025 ISBN: 9780733344169 ISBN 10: 073334416X Imprint: ABC Books AU List Price: 24.99 AUD Earlier this year I reviewed the 10th anniversary edition of This is a Ball and just as that one and many other Stanton bursts of hysterical humour have entertained kids (and adults) over the past decade, so too will this one.…
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A Barney Gumnut Christmas (Barney Gumnut #2)- Tamsin Ainslie
Harper Collins Australia August 2025 ISBN: 9781460759721 ISBN 10: 1460759729 Imprint: HarperCollins Australia RRP: $24.99 Hmm, I don’t know why but I never saw the #1 Barney Gumnut [gives the HC crew the side-eye] which was surely some kind of oversight? Regardless, this is my first meeting with Barney and his friends and, honestly, I’m in love with…
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The Christmas Tree Catastrophe – Emma Bowd. Matt Shanks.
Harper Collins Australia August 2025 ISBN: 9781460765883 ISBN 10: 1460765885 Imprint: HarperCollins AU List Price: 24.99 AU I fell in love with this the day it arrived when I read it immediately, but as I explained to Emma, I really wanted to save it for the Xmas Countdown because – to be honest- this year the Xmas books have…
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