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Our Beautiful World – Sarah Speedie. Margeaux Davis
New Frontier Publishing April 2025 ISBN : 978-1-923145-57-3 PRICE : $26.99 The holidays are fast approaching and some of your children will be going away perhaps to places overseas, perhaps within Australia, but as always, there will be those who will not be going away. Take them on a virtual trip to see the colourful and vibrant…
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Tiwi in Paris – Glen Farmer Illortaminni
Thames & Hudson July 2025 ISBN: 9781760764944 RRP: $26.99 The ‘fish out of water’ theme can work in various ways in literature – amusing, poignant, sorrowful, hilarious – it all depends on context doesn’t it? This one, to me, is the ‘innocent abroad’. For many of us who are unaccustomed to travel, the challenge of going…
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Are We There Yet? 20th Anniversary edition – Alison Lester
Penguin Australia October 2024 Hands up if you’ve also forgotten how many times in the past 20 years you’ve shared this one? I know it was a focal point of my literature-based unit with Year 3s often and on many occasions, aside from all the times I’ve just read it to Smalls. And it never…
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Plume-lollapalooza!!
The series teaching notes are now available!! Enjoy all things Plume and penguin with your Smalls.
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Beijing Tai Tai – Tania McCartney
Exisle Publishing 2012 ISBN: 9781921966156 RRP: $14.99 I first met Tania when she came to my Canberra school as our author guest around ten years ago, and she and I just clicked from the first moment we spoke to each other. Since then it has been my honour and pleasure to be her friend. I…
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Mr. Men [Little Miss] in Australia – Roger Hargreaves
Penguin Australia November 2021 ISBN: 9781761044342 Imprint: Mr Men RRP: $16.99 These characters are so enduring and still so well-loved fifty years after their creation, that this book will make a fun addition to your collection and, indeed, to your classroom unit on Australia, if you are building up a solid title list for that purpose. The gang…
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