Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Picture Book Month bonus: Runt and the Diabolical Dognapping – Craig Silvey

    Allen & Unwin September 2025 ISBN:9781761181597 Publisher:A&U Children’s Imprint:A & U Children RRP: $26.99 Teaching resource Activity sheet It’s hysterical, hilarious, heart-warming, happy-making, high-spirited, hopeful and heroic – and that’s just the H’s!! …that was my comment to Craig Silvey last night, after having read about 2/3 the day before. Last night I went to…

  • Landovel – Emily Rodda

    Allen & Unwin October 2024 ISBN:9781761069758 Publisher:A&U Children’s Imprint:A & U Children RRP: $39.99 A new Emily Rodda title is always a reason to be excited. When it arrives as a stunning 3 part trilogy in a very handsome slipcase, it’s like an early Xmas. A hero fights against the tide,Companions battle by his side.Danger,…

  • The Light in Everything – Katya Balen

    Bloomsbury Australia Bloomsbury Publishing Imprint: Bloomsbury Children’s Books July 2022 ISBN 9781526647405 RRP: $14.99 This is the third of Katya’s books I have read and honestly, I love her writing more each time. She has such skill in creating believable characters with whom the reader can easily connect and her deft hand in giving them…

  • The Shop at Hoopers Bend – Emily Rodda

    Harper Collins       ISBN: 9781460753668       ISBN 10: 1460753666       Imprint: HarperCollins – AU      On Sale: 24/07/201      List Price: 16.99 AUD When you go to bed feeling a little tired and start reading a new book and then just keep reading it until you’re finished, you know it’s a terrific piece of writing. It’s been a while since…