Review: Four All at Sea

The four car friends from Four on the Run, return with fame and new adventures.  In Four All at Sea, the personification of the characters and the objects that surround them, steer the story through dialogue and point of view […]

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Review: Always

Always is the seventh and final book in Morris Gleitzman’s outstanding series featuring the hero Felix. It marks the end of two journeys; the one taken by Felix, the other, the writing journey with Felix by the author,which began sixteen […]

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Review: Treasure in the Lake

With the surge of graphic novels for all ages, comes the opportunity for creators and designers to offer a different style of book to children who find reading words difficult, but are drawn to visual narratives. A five-publisher auction led […]

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Review: Pax Journey Home

An extraordinary and emotional tale of survival of both animals and humans, I regret having missed the first book, Pax, as I loved Pax: Journey Home, so much! Its beautiful and moving poetic prose carries countless underlying themes and messages […]

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Review: Babies at the Billabong

What a wonderful anytime story Babies at the Billabong is!  A walk through the Australian bush is reason for celebration. There is so much to see and learn about; tall trees, flowered bushes and baby animals playing in their natural […]

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Review: Mel and Shell

It is 1979. Shell is ten years old and in Grade 5. To commemorate 150 years since the first settlers came from England, she has been allocated an imaginary pen-pal, Mary, from 1829, as a history project. She has a […]

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Review: The Song of Lewis Carmichael

The Song of Lewis Carmichael, Sophie Laguna’s first children’s book in a decade, captures the reader’s attention immediately, and with its magical atmosphere, flings them into the story, making them a part of it from beginning to end. Matthew had […]

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