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New Home :Millie the Cutest Puppy in the World #1 – Cate Whittle. Illustrated by Nicky Johnston.
Not only the cutest puppy but possibly the cutest book. Everything about this sweet new book from Cate Whittle and Nicky Johnston is just absolutely delightful, from the cover with it’s glossy accents to the endpapers, and everything between. Millie was a tiny puppy when she was left on the doorstep of St Bernard’s Home for…
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Mermedusa – Thomas Taylor
Walker Books Book 5 of An Eerie-on-Sea Mystery Series September 2023 ISBN13: 9781529502138 Australia RRP: $17.99 New Zealand RRP: $19.99 When you’ve loved every minute of a series, it’s hard to say goodbye to it. So it is that in reading this fifth and final in the wonderful Eerie-on-Sea sequence, I tried hard to make it…
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Picture Book Month Bonus #3: Starberries and Kee- Cate Whittle
Storytorch Press May 2023 ISBN: 9780645191554 RRP: $17.95 Audio Interview with Cate @ Living Arts Canberra More years ago than I care to remember, I was a subscriber to, and devotee of Grass Roots magazine. I pretty much daydreamed constantly about having the kind of life that Hannah finds herself in when she and her…
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Foxlight – Katya Balen
Bloomsbury Australia October 2023 ISBN 9781526640437 Imprint Bloomsbury Children’s Books RRP: $16.99 Katya Balen rapidly became one of my favourite authors after reading her debut novel, and I have loved every word in her first three novels, each of these so fresh and original (see my reviews: The Space We’re In , October October, The…
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Two Sparrowhawks in a Lonely Sky – Rebecca Lim
Allen & Unwin August 2023 ISBN: 9781761180224 Publisher: A&U Children’s Imprint: A & U Children RRP: $23.99 Like many others, I have read both fictional and factual accounts of the extreme hardship and brutality of Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward, an ill-conceived scheme to bring China to an ideal Communist Utopia. It resulted in the…
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The Fortune Maker – Catherine Norton
Harper Collins Australia August 2023 The early 20th century pre-Great War was an interesting time, and there were many fads and fashions which likely strike us these days as being quite bizarre. Certainly there were interests which we could or would consider quite normal such as the growing enthusiasm for motorcars, bicycling, and a fondness…
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The Key to Rome – Sophie Masson
Cover and internal illustrations by Lorena Carrington Published by Eagle Books, an imprint of Christmas Press, May 2023 ISBN 9780645378856 RRP: $19.99 There’s nothing quite like a good ancient Roman historical fiction, and this one full of drama,, deceit and death will appeal to many middle grade readers who relish an exciting and suspense-filled adventure.…
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Pony – R. J. Palacio
My review of this utterly fabulous book is now live at Kids Book Review – check it out and make sure you get a copy – you won’t be sorry!
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