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The Peski Kids #1: The Mystery of the Squashed Cockroach – R. A. Spratt
Penguin Random House 9780143788812 July 30, 2018 Puffin $16.99 There were many sad faces in my library when I reported that the Friday Barnes series had come to an end (including mine) but there was the consolation that R. A. Spratt was working on a new series. And here it is! And it’s…
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Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables #4: Go Wild – Tim Harris
Penguin Random House 9780143789024 September 3, 2018 Random House Australia Children’s RRP : $14.99 Being curled up and cosy with a steaming cup of Himalayan tea – what could be better? If you have the new adventure of Mr B and 12B to make you laugh, of course. The class camp is going to…
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Pippa’s Island 4: Camp Castaway – Belinda Murrell
Penguin Random House ISBN 9780143783725 April 2, 2018 Imprint: Random House Australia Children’s RRP: $14.99 I may have had to wait a while for my review copy to arrive but it was completely worth it. If ever a ‘sea change’ from dull dreary winter normality was needed it was now and this was just…
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Alice-Miranda in Scotland [#17]– Jacqueline Harvey
Random House Australia Children’s ISBN 9780143786016 May 2018 RRP $16.99 What could possibly be more delightful than our favourite BFF immersed in Scotland’s culture and icons? The inaugural Queen’s Colours leadership program for children is kicking off in the land of Burns, Bruce and Braveheart and Alice-Miranda (after a tricky start) as well as…
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Bring on the Empty Horses, so the old saying goes…….
…though these are far from ’empty……….. As my village knows Miss Small has now been riding for about 18 months and is about to compete in her second show tomorrow (last show she got a first in her class of Beginner Rider!) so despite a lifetime in almost total ignorance of riding, except for…
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Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables: Fight Back – Tim Harris
9780143785873 January 29, 2018 Random House Australia Children’s RRP : $14.99 The kids in 12B are pretty despondent. Mr Bambuckle has been sent packing by Principal Sternblast and their replacement teacher Miss Frost is as icy as her name. Every day is a complete nightmare with dreary worksheets and stony silences. However, there is some…
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Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables – Tim Harris….and Mr Bambuckle himself!!!
Tim Harris, illus by James Hart Random House Released September 2017 Paperback ISBN 9780143785859 RRP $14.99 Tim Harris exploded onto the children’s literature scene quite literally with his Exploding Endings books. Now he brings us a true hero of the classroom, Mr Bambuckle. The children of Room 12 B are wary of their expected new…
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Little Lunch series – Danny Katz/Mitch Vane
Walker Books I said earlier today that I’m not that across kids’ TV but this is one show I’ve watched with Miss K and we both think it is very funny. She, like other kids, because she thinks the antics of the kids and their interactions a real hoot and me, because I reckon…
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Vet Cadets : Bks 3 & 4 – Rebecca Johnson
Penguin Random House 31 July 2017 Imprint : Puffin (AU YR) RRP $14.99 This new series from Rebecca Johnson is perfect for those who have graduated from Juliet Nearly a Vet with girls who are just a little older and perhaps with a slightly more exciting setting. The three main characters – Abbey, Talika and…
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Friday Barnes 7: Bitter Enemies – Rachel Spratt
Penguin Random House 9780143784197 July 31, 2017 Random House Australia Children’s RRP $15.99 Beginning of term at Highcrest Academy has never been so dreary and desolate. Melanie and Ian are both depressed and missing their quirky best friend Friday, who has been whisked off to Switzerland to be with her family and attend Europe’s…
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