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Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Dazzling Diamond Egg: Claris the Chicest Mouse in Paris – Megan Hess

    Hardie Grant Australia September 2025 ISBN:9781761215193 Price:AU$26.99, NZ$29.99 Series:Claris Publisher:Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing I absolutely adore Megan Hess’ books! Though I’ve only had two for review, I’ve bought every one of her fashion titles I could get my hands on for my libraries. I can assure you that my fashionista and arty girls went mad…

  • Tiwi in Paris – Glen Farmer Illortaminni

    Thames & Hudson July 2025 ISBN: 9781760764944 RRP: $26.99 The ‘fish out of water’ theme can work in various ways in literature – amusing, poignant, sorrowful, hilarious – it all depends on context doesn’t it? This one, to me, is the ‘innocent abroad’. For many of us who are unaccustomed to travel, the challenge of going…

  • Beyond Belief (Heroes of the Holocaust) – Dee White

    Scholastic March 2020 Publisher: Scholastic/Omnibus Books ISBN: 9781760662516 RRP $17.99 It may be the holidays and I don’t need to be up at the crack of dawn to get to school but even so for me to read a book cover to cover in one night when I go to bed is pretty much indicative of a…

  • Fearless Frederic – Felice Arena

    Penguin Australia 9780143786757 April 2, 2018 RRP: $16.99   In 1910 Paris flooded. A ‘once in a century’ possibility saw the Seine rise to over 30 feet above it’s normal level and the citizens of Paris having to adapt to their city in ways they had never experienced.  For many of them this meant actually…

  • Clementine Rose and the Paris Puzzle (#12) – Jacqueline Harvey

    Random House Australia ISBN: 9780857987884 Published: 27/06/2016 Imprint: Random House Australia Children’s   RRP $14.99 With great timing for Bastille Day favourite of many Clementine Rose is off to Paris with her family – both the old and the new (following the engagement of her mother Clarissa and Drew). Clemmie is beside herself with excitement not only because…

  • Happy Bastille Day!

    In honour of Bastille Day a review of a newish picture book plus a revisit of two older titles for your revolutionary pleasure. An Armadillo in Paris – Julie Krause Random House Australia ISBN: 9781770495265 Published: 02/02/2015 Imprint: Tundra Books Extent: 32 pages $29.99 This whimsical travelogue has been lurking on my shelves for months but with hindsight I’m…