Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Goodnight Daddy – Gregg Dreise

    Scholastic Australia July 2025 This second title from Gregg Dreise for this year’s NAIDOC showcase, is essentially a complete departure from his usual style both textually and artistically. While it is still easy to recognise his deft hand, this is no updated Dreaming story with lots of very discernible First Nations art iconography. This is…

  • Little Love List – Bethany Clark. Illustrated by Summer Macon.

    Affirm Press January 2025 AUD RRP $22.99 ISBN 9781922806758 If you were to write a list of all the reasons you love someone – that is, someone you love deeply – how long would it be? Do you love them when they’re tired and grumpy? Do you love them when they make mistakes? Of course,…

  • Anchored – Debra Tidball & Arielle Li

    EK Books April 2023 9781922539496  RRP: $24.99 Just in the past week I’ve had two children in my relief class who really could have connected with this charming book about feeling disconnected with a loved one. Many children have a separation anxiety, and while there have always been children whose parent has had to work…

  • How To Make Friends with the Dark – Kathleen Glasgow

    Harper Collins Australia April 2020 ISBN: 9781460751060 ISBN 10: 146075106X Imprint: HarperCollins – AU List Price: 19.99 AUD   Here is what happens when your mother dies. My timing for reading this could have been better really. It was the 5th anniversary of losing my girl this past week, a scant fortnight before  Miss K’s 10th birthday. So at…