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Top Koala – Jackie French. Illustrated by Matt Shanks
HarperCollins Australia November 2011 ISBN: 9781460754818 ISBN 10: 1460754816 Imprint: HarperCollins – AU List Price: 24.99 AUD Following the huge success of Koala Bare this favourite furry friend returns with enough self-confidence to power the whole country! I am top of every tree! Top is always best to be. With the terrible outcome of bushfires and the dire predicament…
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Hooray for Book Week!
We wear ourselves out getting ready for it – with planning over months and are thoroughly but satisfyingly over it by the time it’s done and yet we wait impatiently for the next year’s theme so we can do it all over again! Our preparations have been underway for weeks and our library looks…
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Nanette’s Baguette – Mo Willems
Walker Australia ISBN: 9781406376210 Imprint: Walker March 1, 2017 Australian RRP: $16.99 New Zealand RRP: $18.99 Anyone who has been in a primary school library will have noticed just how often Mo Willem’s books are borrowed. Always a delight in both text and illustrations, this is no exception. And if you are looking for a kickstart for a rhyming…
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The Sisters Saint-Claire – Carlie Gibson/Tamsin Ainslie
ISBN: 9781760291563 Publisher: Allen & Unwin Imprint: A & U Children October 2016 RRP $19.99 I have mentioned before my penchant for books with mouse characters and this is no exception. A delightful and sweet story in rhyme about a family of little mice sisters who love to bake and love to shop at the…
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Push! Dig! Scoop! ; a construction counting rhyme – Rhonda Gowler Greene/Daniel Kirk
Allen & Unwin Push! Dig! Scoop! ; a construction counting rhyme – Rhonda Gowler Greene/Daniel Kirk Allen & Unwin November 2016 Imprint: Bloomsbury Children’s ISBN: 9781408881668 RRP $9.99 What a darling book! I’m fascinated to learn that the author has been an elementary teacher for learning disabled children. She knows her stuff for sure.…
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Once I Heard a Little Wombat – Renee Treml
Penguin Random House Australia ISBN: 9780857987396 Published: 03/08/2015 Imprint: Random House Australia Children’s RRP $14.99 Renee Treml has presented another beautiful book for little ones with this re-working of an old nursery rhyme, Once I Saw a Little Bird; and given children a wonderful opportunity to hop, jump, flop and more as the rhythmic text unfolds.…
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The Beastly Pirates – John Kelly
Allen & Unwin Australia Bloomsbury Children Imprint February 2015 ISBN 9781408849859 RRP $14.99 Shiver the timbers of your younger readers with this wonderfully witty and rollicking rhyming story about the scurviest pirates you’ve ever encountered! This just begs to be read aloud with lots and lots of vocal expression. It is chockful of onomatopoeia and…
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Monsters Love Underpants – Claire Freedman and Ben Cort
Simon & Schuster Australia Simon & Schuster UK | 32 pages | ISBN 9781847385710 | October 2014 RRP AU$ 19.99 NZ$ 21.99 Now I’m not entirely sure exactly how much you know about monsters, or indeed underpants, but I will bet you didn’t know how completely inseparable these two are! Can’t you just hear the…
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