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Emma Memma Little Library
Penguin Australia Here’s some more delightful Emma Memma joy and this is for your tiniest Smalls. For us, that means little Daisy now a few months old and just adorable! It’s a little slipcase with teeny-sized concept board books just perfect for teeny-sized hands. Includes books– Numbers- Colours- Animals- Auslan and each is just like…
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Camp Chaos: Willa and Woof # 7 – Jacqueline Harvey. Illustrations by A. Yi
Penguin Australia June 2024 Each new Willa and Woof adventure makes me think “Oh this is the best yet!” but, somehow, they just keep coming – and getting better! I really LOVE this one. It makes me, as an adult, think of all the camps I’ve taken kiddos on, both school and with Brownies (later…
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This is My Book – Tim Harris & Heidi McKinnon
Penguin Australia May 2024 What a cracking combination of creators!! Tim has such a flair for comic writing and Heidi’s illustrations, while appearing relatively simple, are always so full of character and expression. The vibrant contrast of colours between pages is inspired! I just LOVE this book and your kiddos will gobble it up as…
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Where is the Green Sheep? Celebration Book [20th Anniversary] – Mem Fox and Judy Horacek
Penguin Australia April 2024 Twenty years ago this was a brand new sparkling book that was a huge hit in my library lessons. Now it’s an iconic staple of our Oz Kids Lit picture book canon, still sparkling, and still a huge hit with little readers. As soon as it was available I had my…
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Countdown to Yesterday – Shirley Marr
Penguin Australia January 2024 I love Shirley Marr’s description of herself ‘as having a Western Mind and an Eastern Heart‘, and the success of her books for middle grade readers that explore the experiences of children living in this mix of cultures is self-evident. Her narratives not only speak to the children of Asian heritage…
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The Kindness Project – Deborah Abela
Penguin Australia May 2024 I have followed Deborah’s progress with this one for the duration of its development, and been eager to read it. And yayyy! it arrived the day before yesterday (27/3). As it happens, I had done a day’s relief teaching in Christian Studies at my local Lutheran primary that same day, and…
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I Love Grandma with the Very Hungry Caterpillar
Penguin Australia Mrach 2024 These little books all follow the pattern set by the VHC and its creator, the late Eric Carle, combining the simple text with selected illustrations from across the vast gallery of Carle’s work. One assumes that additional material created in the same style is also added. This one will make a…
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Kevin the Sheep – Jacqueline Harvey. Illustrated by Kate Isobel Scott.
Penguin Australia March 2024 It would be fair to say that I’ve been waiting for this one for some time. Since I knew it was on the way, I was keen to see it, but then (as can happen) delivery of the actual book was problematic but at last it is here. HUZZAH!! And, of…
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Shower Land #1: Break the Curse – Nat Amoore/James Hart
Penguin Australia February 2024 Well, I’ve read a lot of ‘portal’ books. Portals that were books. Portals that were a piece of jewelry. Portals that were doorways…or mirrors…a wardrobe…a grandfather clock.. a railway platform or a board game – so many different types of portals. But, I have to say, I’ve never thought of a…
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Q&A with Belinda Murrell
Welcome to Just So Stories, Belinda! And how exciting to have you here at last (I have no idea why it’s taken so long really!). But with the debut of another brand-new series, it certainly is good timing. Let’s start off at the very beginning. Tell us about Belinda the little girl: family (of course,…
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