Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe


  • The Midnight Chew -Sally Morgan. Karen Blair.

    Fremantle Press October 2025 ISBN 9781760995096 RRP: AU $24.99/ NZ$30/ US $17.95 A happy-go-lucky sort of doggo book from Sally Morgan with definite echoes of Hairy Maclary and his gang, as Skippy Gillespie slips out of his yard in the dead of night to go rummage in the rubbish for his bone. Boofa Boy Jones…

  • Helping Little Star – Sally Morgan and Blaze Kwaymullina. Illustrations by Sally Morgan.

    Walker Books Australia July 2024 ISBN13:9781760658700 Australia RRP:$16.99 New Zealand RRP:$18.99 August 4 is National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day so what a better to mark that than with some reviews of some wonderful new titles. What an absolutely charming story this is for Smalls! It is essentially quite simple but could easily develop into…

  • Welcome, Child! – Sally Morgan

    Magabala Books March 2021 ISBN 9781925936025 RRP: $12.99 Of course this is not the first book to celebrate the love with which they are received into their family for our littlest of readers, but it is one that specifically allows for our youngest First Australians to recognise themselves. Sally Morgan’s simple but beautiful text, accompanied…

  • A Swag of Magabala!

    Opening a parcel from Magabala Books is always such a joy! I love seeing what our First Australian authors and illustrators have created and they enable me to share rich culture and boundless talent with my readers. First up is the absolute little treasure of a book: Girls Can Fly – Sally Morgan/Ambelin Kwaymullina March…