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O.M.G. Oh My G.O.A.T! (G.O.A.T. #3) Kate & Jol Temple
Scholastic Australia November 2025 ISBN: 9781761642357 ISBN-10: 1761642359 RRP: $19.99 The G.O.A.T. series has had me cackling since the first because a) it really is absurdly funny and b) Mr Surfer is known colloquially as the G.O.A.T. surf coach – I could add, that’s in his own lunchbox, but no, it’s true as far as I can…
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One Keen Koala ABC – Margaret Wild. Bruce Whatley.
Scholastic Australia December 2025 Any book with this pairing of creators is so unlikely to need my recommendation because, let’s face it their names alone will guarantee it flying off shelves across the country. But, regardless, let me go on with this feeble attempt to do it some kind of justice. We love ABC books…
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Koala Fairies – Anna Pignataro
Scholastic Australia September 2025 ISBN:9781761123849 RRP: $19.99 It really could be set right here at the end of our street – where bush meets the sea and there are native animals sheltering in quiet spots. Cute little friends, Cookie and Clover, are a pair of helpful koalas who do their best to care for their…
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Save the Gum Trees, Bees and Big Blue Seas – Luke John Matthew Arnold.
Scholastic Australia ISBN: 9781760264970 ISBN-10: 1760264970 June 2025 RRP: $26.99 It’s big and bold and beautiful and essentially, it’s a call to arms for even the Smalls to step up and be protective of our precious environment. I love that the artwork – and I’m not familiar with this visual artist’s work – is so striking and…
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Piranhas Don’t Eat Bananas: 10th Anniversary – Aaron Blabey
Scholastic Australia September 2025 ISBN: 9781761528903 RRP: $19.99 This has long been one of my favourite read-alouds and, certainly, my favourite Aaron Blabey book. I have such great memories of sharing it the year it came out with The Kid, in that first year she was living with me [and we so often needed to…
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A Little Bit of Positivity: Potatoes, Peppers an Pineapples to Make Your Day – Jason Cox
Scholastic UK September 2025 ISBN 9781761725036 RRP: $19.99 What a dear little book this is! If you are looking for a cute little gift book for almost any age really, you won’t go wrong with this one. And it’s the perfect size to pop into a Xmas stocking or for a Secret Santa gift. It’s…
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One Word and a Bird – Stephen Michael King
Scholastic Australia April 2025 ISBN 9781761520860RRP $26.99 This one finishes off this week of Birdie Num Nums purely because of its title, because really it’s not all about birds. It’s about love and our own self-belief, the (sometimes lofty and impossible) standards we set for ourselves and how we navigate the world around us. Stephen…
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Because it’s Book Week…
There are not so many days I miss being full-time in my libraries but, yes, Book Week with the insane preparations and the fun of dressing up [at one of my schools a different costume every day of the week!] has been one in the last couple of years. But honestly, this year I’ve been…
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It’s a Sean E. Avery Special
These two books have been languishing in the PBs’ tubs for way too long. But news of Sean’s recent visit to Canberra [so jelly of all my friends there who got to see him] has guilted me into attending to them pronto. And after all, Sean is a thoroughly nice guy it seems. When I…
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