The Children’s hard back picture book, How To Measure The Ocean has delightful illustrations of the ocean and many of the creatures and plants that live in it. There are also maps, charts, and diagrams included. These support the many mathematical concepts which are...
The Becky Bexley series of books has reached book four Comedy, Alcohol, Trauma and Games and is once again full of very excellent social advice for the tween and teen aged readers, that perhaps they would not take from anyone other than Becky Bexley Child Genius. Fans...
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...
A bittersweet memoir CHARLOTTE REE After submitting an essay for Vogue Australia, Charlotte Ree was persuaded to write her memoir as a complete book. She has done this in an interesting way in Heartbake; A Bittersweet Memoir. Her life has been bound by cooking and...
One definite advantage about reading Regency Romance it that it is pure escapism into a world that can be crafted to fit into reader’s expectations, based in a time where the rules of society where strict. To break them or flaunt them was surely instant discredit and...
Nearly every dinosaur we know is listed in this colourful book. Rumble, Rumble Dinosaur can be sung to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle little star and is written in verse. The large print and simple, colourful illustrations make this ideal for reading to the youngest...
This well illustrated, hardback picture book Who Fed Zed is hilarious. I suspect that the reader, as well as the listener will finish up in giggles. Part of the humour lies in the way the illustrator portrays the characters. They are larger than life and have a range...
Odd Facts about Fascinating Fish Fish live in the oceans and rivers of the world and just like every other species, they have their quirks, their individuality if you like, that makes them more than just a tasty treat, and it makes them fascinating creatures that live...
Lydia Williams is the goal keeper for the Australian Matilda’s and Arsenal women’s Soccer teams. She loves writing stories about her sport and the wonderful people, or in this case animals, she has met on her journey to become one of the best goal keepers in the world...
The Girl Who Liked to Worry Some children are born worriers. Lucy was one of those children. She worried that her shadow would turn into a black hole and eat her; life seemed to be extremely dangerous. The beautiful illustrations from Cara King show her mother as calm...
Bad Mermaids Meet the Sushi Sisters is another gloriously outrageous romp in the wonderful underwater, well most of time, world but now things are changing as Paris, their part human friend, is going to move to Scotland, where her mother has bought a Loch as...
This year past has seen so much of the traditional way of life turned completely on its head with change, reorganisation and acceptance of a ‘new norm’, something that seem to change regularly, depending on what country you live in and the current challenges dealing...
