Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Monsters – Jackie Hosking. Katrin Dreiling

    Walker Books Australia September 2026 ISBN13:9781760657918 Australia RRP:$24.99 New Zealand RRP:$26.99 There’ll be a lot of fun to be had from this one, particularly from Katrin Dreiling’s terrific illustrations which will have kiddos in fits of laughter, I guarantee. The urge to start drawing their own monsters will soon follow any reading as well. It’s…

  • When Santa Got Stuck in a Gum Tree – Jackie Hosking. Nathaniel Eckstrom.

    Walker Books Australia September 2024 ISBN13:9781760657406 Australia RRP:$24.99 New Zealand RRP:$27.99 What if? always such a good provocation for writing … Plenty of children have wondered what if Santa got stuck in a chimney, but what if he got stuck in a gum tree? Well, how could he be rescued? This could be the start…

  • An Amazing Camping Trip – Jackie Hosking/Lesley Vamos

    Walker Books Australia ISBN13: 9781760654948 Australia RRP: $24.99 New Zealand RRP: $27.99 Jackie Hosking’s excellent rhyming is a byword in the kids lit community and this is another great example. While neither she, nor illustrator Lesley Vamos, are First Nations creators (in fact, Jackie is ‘Nigerian-born Cornish Australian’), I think this is a terrific book…