Child safety is a growing issue worldwide. Having conversations with children about their safety at a young age help children react in situations that compromise their safety. Today we welcome, Sneha Sabu along to share some facts about her book […]

Kiva had always been closed off, never wanting to be hurt or vulnerable. She had been scared of loving for years, but now she had grown to love her family’s worst enemy. And now that everything had fallen apart, Kiva […]

The Cult Of Romance is by turns a soap-opera, a tale of two cities, a portrait of a young woman straddling cultures and a searingly intimate interrogation of home, identity, love and belonging. It’s fresh and eminently readable. Laugh-out-loud funny […]

For a double whammy of wonderful, heartfelt middle grade fiction, look no further than these two ‘pawsome’ novels by, Kate Foster.  The Bravest Word is a rescue story of love and trust between a boy and a dog while Paws, […]

The days where you can walk into a shop and buy a pet are long gone, but in this Emporium, Mr Price is selling pets, and you would not believe the mischief he gets up to.  He might seem like […]

I (Sonny) had been living in Japan for somewhere around twenty years. I returned to the States periodically for business, travel and family visits. These visits were not as frequent as they should have been. While I love my life […]

Our lucky winner is… Eloise Liddel, VIC Congratulations! We loved your spacey interpretation of our question! You have won a copy of this out of this world middle grade fiction, Astronaughties by Andrew Cranna. Thank you to ALL who entered. May 16, […]

This is a wonderful non-fiction picture book depicting the first year of a humpback whale’s life. We read about Calf’s birth in the warm waters off Australia and then follow mother Whale and Calf as they migrate to the icy […]

Growing up on a farm in a tiny country town in NE Victoria, I loved reading and writing. I rapidly devoured the entire contents of the library at my small primary school, and was steadily making my way through the […]

Many of you are familiar with the illustrative works of Tracie Grimwood. Her colourful geometric, whimsical character portraits feature in picture books such as, Reena’s Rainbow and Bo Loves Books.  Tracie also illustrated the cover for one of our favourite […]