Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe


  • Information Overload!

    Every now and then it happens. There’s been a gradual build-up on the review shelves, which I doggedly work through but then there’s a sudden rush of many parcels arriving (my postie and I are such good friends after him delivering to my last two houses!), and things go completely catawampus. So despite all my…

  • Timeline: Science and Technology – Peter Goes

    Gecko Press Country of Origin Belgium Reader Age 11-14 year, 6-8 year, 8-12 year Published October 2020 ISBN 9781776573004 This is exactly the type of information book that appealed to me, the nerd-child, and still does. Big, bold and beautiful, Peter Goes’ distinctive illustrative style takes the reader through the development of technology and science…

  • Freefall:  Kensy & Max #5 –– Jacqueline Harvey

    Published: 3 March 2020 ISBN: 9780143796985 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $16.99   Hold onto your seats for another major adrenalin rush in this new top-notch adventure of twins Kensy and Max, young agents-in-training! In this latest episode there is a continuing thread from the previous book in which a thoroughly evil villain was unmasked. The outwardly charming Dash Chalmers has…

  • Startalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson: Young Readers Edition

    Penguin Random House Paperback | $17.99 Published by National Geographic Children’s Books Mar 20, 2018 Middle Grade (10 and up)| ISBN 9781426330872 Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist/author/TV and radio personality, has been a popular identity for decades and many young readers will know his special blend of pop culture, science and comedy particularly from the National Geographic.…

  • The Traitor and the Thief – Gareth Ward

    Walker Books Australia July 2017 ISBN 9781925381504 RRP $17.99 I will confess I’m not a real steampunk aficionado (His Dark Materials excepted!) but this is a complex and interesting narrative. It’s difficult to determine an actual setting either time or place except that it is in England, opening in London, and post ‘Tedwardian’ apparently.  Proper…

  • Six – M. M. Vaughan

    Simon & Schuster Margaret K. McElderry Books ISBN 9781481420709 | May 2016 This is speculative fiction for your young readers at its best. If you have kids who are into the whole premise of technology and scientific discoveries at their best – or worst – they will gobble this up. Parker Banks hates that he…

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