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Love From the Crayons – Drew Daywalt/Oliver Jeffers
Harper Collins Australia January 2020 ISBN: 9780008384920 ISBN 10: 0008384924 Imprint: HarperCollins – GB List Price: 14.99 AUD You would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t love the crayons books! Now you can give the gift of love AND crayons to someone special whether that’s a big or a small person. What colour do you think love…
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The Tiny Star – Mem Fox/Freya Blackwood
Penguin 1st October 2019 ISBN: 9780670078127 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $24.99 Mem Fox has triumphed again with this simply beautiful new picture book inspired by the most personal of motivations – the bond between loving grandparent and grandchild. In their first collaboration Mem and Freya have produced a gentle and warming exploration of life and death that will resonate…
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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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Animal Crackers
Now that the pile of review novels is finally getting to a stage that could be described as semi-tamed, it’s time to get stuck into plethora picture books. So here are some animal-focused ones to get into – because we all know that our little readers just love a great animal story and…
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His Name was Walter – Emily Rodda
Harper Collins ISBN: 9781460756188 ISBN 10: 1460756185 Imprint: HarperCollins – AU On Sale: 23/07/2018 List Price: 22.99 AUD Oh my gosh! Yes, of course there will be more to say but really this book was so incredible it really did almost leave me speechless. Just when I think Emily Rodda cannot get any better (I mean, I just loved…
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The Poesy Ring: a love story – Bob Graham
Walker Books Australia ISBN: 9781406378276 Imprint: Walker Release Date: November 1, 2017 Australian RRP: $24.99 New Zealand RRP: $27.99\ This one had slipped through the cracks but certainly not by intention! I love Bob Graham’s books and this one is no exception. It is the story of the travels of one Irish poesy ring from the time it left…
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Empathy and Books for Children
At present our Junior School is focusing on developing empathy with our children and particularly the value of books/shared reading in this process (yay!) so it seems apt to collate some of my current review picture books that fit this agenda. The Day War Came – Nicola Davies/illustrated by Rebecca Cobb Walker Books Australia…
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Paper Cranes Don’t Fly – Peter Vu
Ford St August 2017 ISBN 9781925272765 RRP $19.95 Exquisitely poignant and so beautifully written this is a young adult book which will touch the hearts of every reader. There have been other books that look at the lives of young people with life-threatening or terminal illnesses but this is the first I’ve read that really…
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Love Always Everywhere – Sarah Massini
ISBN: 9780857632494 Australian Pub.: January 2015 Publisher: Nosy Crow Imprint: Nosy Crow Suitable for ages: 2-5 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways… Well, let me see……… Loud Quiet Shy Proud Lose Miss Giggle Hug And several others……!! What a delightful book to share with little ‘uns. Expressive illustrations matched with minimal…
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