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How to Train Your Teacher- Bethany Walker. Sophie Kent.
Scholastic Australia December 2025 Imprint: Scholastic UK ISBN: 9781761727023 ISBN-10: 1761727028 RRP: $19.95 This is loads of fun and gives Smalls a humorous viewpoint on being at school, as it explains from the kiddos’ perspective how a teacher works and what to expect. It’s a completely different approach to a ‘new to school’ book. Whether it’s helping…
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How to Go to Big School – Sarah Ayoub. Mimi Purnell.
Harper Collins Australia November 2025 I’m not familiar with the stats of other states but in Queensland there are now almost 12, 000 students being home-schooled. Between 2020 and 2024 there was almost a 164% increase in registrations. I knew the stats were escalating a few years ago when I was home-schooling The Kid myself.…
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At School I’ll Grow – Carly Gardiner. Illustrated by Caroline Keys.
Little Steps Publishing Boolarong Press October 2024 ISBN : 978-1-922678-35-5 RRP: $16.99 This is a pretty simple picture book aimed squarely at those Smalls beginning their school journey. It offers a rhyming description of what might be expected to happen in an average classroom [except for the fact of just 11 children in front of the…
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100 School Days – Deborah Frenkel and Laura Stitzel
Affirm PressJune 2024 AUD RRP $22.99 ISBN 9781922930385 Thirty years ago when I was first teaching a Year 1 class (actually it was a 1/2/3) Qld preschool was optional, and so Year 1 was the official first year of school. The Smalls diligently coloured a new square each day on their 100 page glued into…
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Back to School – or not, as the case may be…
So I’ve had these ones for a while but thought they would be more usefully timed for the start of the school year so was going to post them next week as Queensland schools were due to resume on 24th January. That was the case right up to a few hours ago when the growing…
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Christmas fun for littlies
As the weeks go rushing past and in no time it will be time to hang the stockings we all seem to go into a kind of frenzy of ‘what to get for..?’. There are some very cute new books for little people which would make great stocking stuffers: Peppa’s Christmas Jumper Day Penguin…
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Lift and Look School – illustrated by Simon Abbott
Bloomsbury September 2016 ISBN 9781408864012 RRP $11.99 Do you have little ones eagerly anticipating starting school? If so, this is a perfect gift especially as it has ‘lift the flaps’ which we all know are always such a delight! Very simple text, a sweet board book format and gorgeously vibrant and extremely cute illustrations,…
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