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Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Pirates of Darksea – Catherine Doyle

    Bloomsbury Australia June 2024 ISBN 9781526655103 Imprint Bloomsbury Children’s Books RRP: $16.99 I fell in love with Catherine Doyle’s writing with The Stormkeeper trilogy and when the ARC arrived for this – many months ago- I devoured it with just as much enthusiasm – and this review has been scheduled since then!! This is an…

  • Salt Water Therapy

                              Here are four picture books all of which centre on the ocean but with very different purpose, style and execution, each of them truly lovely.   Beach Song – Ros Moriarty. Illustrated by Samantha Campbell Allen & Unwin January 2024 ISBN:9781761180248 Publisher:A&U Children’s Imprint:A & U Children RRP: $24.99 Ros Moriarty comments ‘my emotional wellbeing…

  • Blackbeard’s Treasure – Iszi Lawrence

    Bloomsbury Australia May 2023 ISBN 9781801990967 Imprint Bloomsbury Education RRP: $14.99 It’s been quite a long time since I’ve read a swashbuckling pirate adventure, and this was a good one to break that drought. It is adventure/historic novel based on facts about that period of time when pirates and privateers were roaming the waters, particularly…

  • The StrangeWorlds Travel Agency : The Edge of the Ocean Book #2 – L. D. Lapinski

    Hachette Australia APR 13, 2021 | 9781510105959 | RRP $16.99 Now that Flick is officially a member of the StrangeWorlds Travel Agency, and with one exciting adventure already under her belt, in which she demonstrated some unexpected and remarkable powers, she and Jonathan Mercator are summoned to help another world. This time they are joined by Jonathan’s distant cousin,…

  • Pirate Pug: The Dog who Rocked the Boat – Laura James/Eglantine Ceulemans

      Bloomsbury Australia February 2019 ISBN 9781408895948 Imprint: Bloomsbury Children’s Books Series: The Adventures of Pug RRP $12.99 This is the fourth in this hugely funny series for newly independent readers and just as hilarious as the earlier ones. Pug and his owner, Lady Miranda, seem to encounter all kinds of mischief and mishaps whenever…

  • Treasure of the Golden Skull: Maudlin Towers #2 – Chris Priestley

    Bloomsbury December 2018 ISBN: 9781408873106 Imprint: Bloomsbury Children’s Books RRP : $14.99 AU $16.99 NZ Readers return to the wacky world of Maudlin Towers with Mildew and Sponge as they attempt to save their mouldering school from closure, due to its pecuniary troubles. Ever since the funds for the renovations disappeared in time (see the…

  • We Are Pirates – Daniel Handler

    Allen & Unwin RRP: $29.99 Paperback – 352 pages ISBN: 9781408821459 Australian Pub.: February 2015 Publisher: Bloomsbury Imprint: Bloomsbury Subject: Fiction Lemony Snicket, this is not!  While you may well be used to the dark humour of the LS children’s novels, this newest novel from the same author, alternatively known as Daniel Handler, is a…

  • The Beastly Pirates – John Kelly

    Allen & Unwin Australia Bloomsbury Children Imprint February 2015 ISBN 9781408849859 RRP $14.99 Shiver the timbers of your younger readers with this wonderfully witty and rollicking rhyming story about the scurviest pirates you’ve ever encountered! This just begs to be read aloud with lots and lots of vocal expression. It is chockful of onomatopoeia and…

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