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Picture Book Month Bonus: Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins. Illustrated by Nico Delort.
Scholastic Australia Last year it was the #1 illustrated Hunger Games that was a bonus for Picture Book Month, now it’s equally sumptuous Catching Fire. This trilogy and its numerous spin-offs remains a favourite with so many around the world, myself included. There is just so much to love about it and quite frankly, as…
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Bowerbird Bloom – Aura Parker
Scholastic Australia ISBN: 9781761720918 ISBN-10: 1761720910 Series: Bowerbird : Book 3 Published: 1st November 2025 RRP: $19.99 Watch here Teaching notes One might be forgiven for thinking – how can Aura top the first two gorgeous Bowerbird books? – and then you see this and just go – aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh 💜. The brood is growing up. They love being together.…
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Miss Understood- Kathryn Apel & Beau Wylie
Scholastic Australia May 2025 Yes, it has taken far too long to get to this one but it’s worth it – and if you haven’t grabbed it, you should! It’s been way too long since I had a fractured fairytale to share and it’s also been way too long between really excellent, perfectly on point…
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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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