Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe


  • Guess How I Was Born – Susanne Gervay. Illustrated by Carolyn Daly.

    Larrikin House June 2025 978192334510 I’m far from being the only educator who has worked with children from diverse family circumstances. Going right back to my first year of teaching and to the present day: same sex parents, single parents of either gender, trans parents, trans kids, kiddos raised by grandparents [like The Kid], blended…

  • Parrot Palace – Susanne Gervay with Pooja Mathur. Illustrated by Sarah Tabassum.

    Big Sky Publishing Imprint: Little Big Sky March 2025 ISBN: 9781923300088 RRP: $12.99 When I had an email from the wonderful Susanne Gervay last year, asking if I would write teaching notes for a new book, quite naturally I was delighted. And when I first read Parrot Palace, I was even more delighted. This is…

  • Who’s the Gang on Our Street? – Susanne Gervay. Illustrated by Nancy Bevington.

    Big Sky Publishing September 2023 ISBN: 9781922896803 RRP: $19.99 When the always gracious and warm Susanne emailed me some months ago, and asked me to write teaching notes for a new picture book she was writing, I was – quite naturally – absolutely thrilled and flattered,that she should consider me to do so. When she subsequently…

  • The Edge of Limits – Susanne Gervay

    Flying Elephant Media November 2022 ISBN: 9780648203551 RRP: $15.99 Susanne Gervay is no stranger to tackling difficult topics in her books and this one, is possibly one of the trickiest to navigate and pull off successfully, with the utmost sensitivity and awareness for the audience. The topic of consent, consensual relationships, toxic masculinity and the explosion…

  • Heroes of the Secret Underground – Susanne Gervay

    Harper Collins Australia April 2021 ISBN: 9781460758335 ISBN 10: 1460758331 Imprint: HarperCollins – AU List Price: 16.99 AUD What an absolute privilege to review Susanne’s new historical fiction inspired by, and a tribute to her own family’s history in Budapest during the last years of World War II. 12 year old Louie lives with her two younger brothers, Bert…