Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Pocket Bear – Katherine Applegate

    Scholastic Australia February 2026 ISBN: 9781760266622 RRP: $18.99 Like many others I follow Katherine Applegate on her social media, I think probably I started when I first read Ivan. I was tremendously interested as she wrote about this title but didn’t expect to see it unless it came to the library. So I was absolutely…

  • Alias Anna: a true story of outwitting the Nazis – Susan Hood {with Greg Dawson}

    Harper Collins Australia August 2023  Sydney Taylor Book Award 2023 Middle Grade Notable  Jewish Book Council Award Middle Grade Finalist  Nerdy Book Club 2022 Best Novel-In-Verse Book  New York Public Library 2022 Best Book For Kids  Chicago Public Library Best Informational Books For Younger Readers Of 2022 I think it’s fair to say I’ve read…

  • You Don’t Know What War Is -Yeva Skalietska

    The Diary of a Young Girl From Ukraine Bloomsbury November 2022 ISBN 9781526659934 Imprint Bloomsbury Children’s Books $19.99 It is almost exactly a year ago that the Russia-Ukrainian war, which first started simmering in 2014, abruptly escalated with a full-scale invasion by Russia, in an unprecedented show of force against the smaller nation. The hostilities…