Review: Fire Truck Santa

Fire Truck Santa is dedicated with love and thanks to volunteers around Australia. It is written and illustrated to accent and acknowledge, the kindness, generosity and invaluable help of people everywhere in times of need, especially fire fighters in their […]

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Review: Book of Curious Birds

Strange birds with stranger names appear in the Book of Curious Birds. Another gloriously illustrated book by Tasmanian artist and writer Jennifer Cossins, delivers close-up views of beautiful and unique birds with a summary of their life patterns. Twenty-eight entries, […]

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Review: Rachel’s War

This biographical fiction was inspired by the real life of Rachel Pratt, an army nurse in WW1 stationed in France, who was awarded the Military Medal for bravery. Exquisite illustrations by the author, Mark Wilson, allow our hearts to be […]

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Review: Somebody’s Land

For thousands and thousands of years, Aboriginal people lived in the land we now call Australia. Somebody’s Land: Welcome to Our Country, is the first of a five-book series that intends to be a resource to draw on to educate […]

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Review: Where’s My Dinosaur?

Mummy’s tummy is growing. Dad says it will be a playmate for the little girl that narrates the story.  Obsessed with dinosaurs, she hopes it will be one. With the size it currently is, she imagines it is a chick, […]

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Review: The Australian Climate Change Book

Identical in its exceptional design and presentation to their previous The Bushfire Book, Polly Marsden and Chris Nixon have collaborated again on the thought-provoking, The Australian Climate Change Book. Full of information intended to arouse awareness in children about actions […]

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Review: Where Ya Goin’?

Where Ya Goin’? opens onto the Australian outback. It’s the start of an adventure into new friendships, companionship, and sharing. Echidna sets out towards the unknown. With a string of amazing native animals picked up along the way to who-knows-where, […]

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