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Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

In Plain Sight: Friday Barnes #13 – R. A. Spratt

Penguin Australia It was quite synchronistic to get #13 Friday Barnes arriving on Friday 13th, I thought! And, needless to say, I promptly gobbled it up over two nights with much snickering and snort laughing [No R. A. Spratt is ever read without the snaughling!]. The Friday romp continues with our intrepid but ‘special’ detective,…

June 16, 2025
The Big Book of Exhibits – Joan-Marie Hargreaves & Marita Bullock. Illustrated by Liz Rowland.

Hachette Septemember 2022 Imprint: Lothian Children’s Books ISBN: 9780734419996 RRP: $24.99 We absolutely know that kiddos love information books and, certainly in my experience, the quirkier the better really. This marvellous book is described as a ‘cabinet of curiosities’ and indeed it does appear to be exactly that in a written and illustrated form. For…

November 21, 2022
The Eagle of Rome: A Lottie Lipton Adventure – Dan Metcalf

Allen & Unwin Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN:9781472927583 Imprint: A&C Black Children’S September 2016 RRP $12.99 I have some little girls who will be most excited when this hits the shelves after the holidays. They loved the first one I brought along to the library so the rest of the series is on our ‘to buy’ list…

September 22, 2016
Today’s review – is not a review. It’s a brand new original story.

Adventure at the Museum

December 18, 2014