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My Name is Not Peaseblossom – Jackie French
Harper Collins June 2019 ISBN: 9781460754788 ISBN 10: 1460754786 List Price: 16.99 AUD So as I chuckled my way through this (and truthfully at times snort-laughed) I thought to myself ‘I reckon Shakespeare would entirely approve of this retell’. After all, he did write to entertain or move people but he also wrote to subtly convey…
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Pirate Boy of Sydney Town – Jackie French
Harper Collins ISBN: 9781460754795 ISBN 10: 1460754794 Imprint: HarperCollins – AU May 2019 RRP: 16.99 AUD Just a few weeks ago I reviewed the third in Jackie’s Miss Lily series and now it’s another superb historical fiction, plus I have two others on my review shelf. I begin to wonder when the woman sleeps! Her prodigious output, the diversity…
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The Lily in the Snow: Book #3 Miss Lily – Jackie French
Harper Collins March 2019 ISBN: 9781460753842 ISBN 10: 1460753844 RRP 29.99 AUD We devotees of Miss Lily have been waiting fairly impatiently for her return and I was thrilled when my copy arrived and immediately started immersing myself once more into the world of Sophie, Nigel and Miss Lily. However packing and moving house followed up by three…
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This is Home: Essential Australian Poems for Children – Selected by Jackie French, Illustrated by Tania McCartney
Publisher: National Library of Australia ISBN: 9780642279385 01 April 2019 RRP: $34.99 Why yes, some readers of this blog will already know that not only am I non-fiction nerd since childhood but also a poetry nerd. I openly admit this to the children at school who are sometimes a little (?!) resistant to poetry. Of course,…
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The Secret of the Youngest Rebel (The Secret Histories #5) – Jackie French
Harper Collins Available: 21st January 2019 ISBN: 9781460754801 RRP: $14.99 If you have not yet set about acquiring Jackie’s enthralling Secret Histories series it is definitely time to catch up to it. As this school year peters out and we limp towards the finish line, some are already thinking about 2019 and our support of our…
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Just a Girl – Jackie French
Harper Collins Australia ISBN: 9781460753095 ISBN 10: 1460753097 August 2018 RRP: $16.99 Hail Mary, Full of Grace, The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. I’m not a Catholic – and though I was raised an Anglican I am not particularly religious in…
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Barney and the Secret of the French Spies – Jackie French
Harper Collins Australia ISBN: 9781460751305 ISBN 10: 1460751302 On Sale: 22/01/2018 List Price: 14.99 AUD Another gripping episode in the story of Barney and Elsie, providing readers with more insight into the early days of the European colony in Sydney and NSW and I’m so excited that next term I’m using Birrung the Secret Friend with my Year 4s…
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Third Witch – Jackie French
Harper Collins ISBN: 9780732298531 ISBN 10: 0732298539 Imprint: HarperCollins – AU 19/06/2017 RRP 16.99 AUD Macbeth has been my favourite Shakespearean play ever since studying it at school and being taken to a very atmospheric production for an excursion. Of course I knew that Shakespeare had totally fibbed about the whole thing but then he…
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Goodbye Mr Hitler – Jackie French
Harper Collins – AU May 2017 ISBN: 9781460751299 RRP: 16.99 AUD In a modern world that often seems to be filled with hate and prejudices and refusal to acknowledge basic human rights, we could easily fall into a despondency that could be soul-destroying. Many of us in daily contact with children will have observed that they…
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