The first page Some Families Change shows a busy street with a family moving into a house. The next page shows how families can change, sometimes getting smaller or bigger, or rearranging completely. Every family is different, and each has its own ways and people....
Tugging on the heartstrings, infuriating at times and deeply poignant, Never Look Desperate fromRachel Matthews, is set within the seldom discussed area of generational trauma and the wide spread, long lasting effects this causes on the ones who we are supposed to...
Once again award winning Australian author Maxine Beneba Clarke has created a picture book, which will engage and delight young emerging readers; it also fits beautifully into the ‘The Children’s Book Council’s Book Week 2023’ theme of “Read, Grow, Inspire”. ‘We Know...
It is easy to believe that Elizabeth Smither is a poet. She has the ability to expand on thoughts and scenes and possibilities, creating characters that you feel you have met. This narrative shifts between three women, Sylvie, her mother Madelaine, and grandmother...
Children are curious little people, always asking questions, with an endless the desire to learn and understand new things in life. There comes a time when they want to know where they came from, how did they become them, how were they born and all the sometimes very...
The cover of The Wolf Hour has the one liner ‘In Africa you find out who you are – not who you thought you were’, a line which perfectly sums up this riveting story from Sarah Miles, a story which redefines families and the cost to the family unit once it begins to...