Ollie and Augustus
Reviewed onOllie and Augustus, the first picture book Gabriel Evans has both written and illustrated, is a whimsical homage to dogs and the power of friendship. Despite their obvious differences – ‘Ollie …
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Maddie in the Middle
Reviewed onYear Six can be a difficult time, especially when your lifelong best friend who has always been the other half of “The Rule of Two, since year two” suddenly seems …
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Ubby’s Underdogs: Return of the Dragons (III)
Reviewed onThe Ubby’s Underdogs graphic novel trilogy is unlike anything else you’ll find in comics. Set in Broome in the late 1940s, our titular teenage heroine, Ubby, is the leader of …
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The Monster Who Wasn’t
Reviewed onHatched from the fluke melding of a baby’s first laugh and an old man’s last sigh, the imp boy Sam looks like a human but can scale walls like a …
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The Wreckers’ Revenge
Reviewed onRed Read finds himself expelled from his Perth boarding school, and awaits twenty lashes with a birch. Fortunately, smuggler Captain Black Bowen intervenes and soon Red is back aboard the …
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Sincerely, Harriet
Reviewed onHarriet, a shy, reserved teenager, has moved to a small apartment in Chicago with her parents. While her mother and father work long hours Harriet spends the hot summer holidays …
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I Would Dangle the Moon
Reviewed on“If I was a farmer, I would plant the moon in my field so you could watch it crack the earth as it grew.” So begins Amber Moffat’s debut picture …
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Wombat, Mudlark and Other Stories
Reviewed onThis collection for younger readers is told in the style of traditional teaching stories. In these instructive tales you will meet not only Wombat and Mudlark, but also a lonely …
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Barefoot Bea
Reviewed onMeet Beatrice Jones. She moves through her days at top speed and in bare feet – shoes just get in the way. Playful illustrations show a confident Bea playing tag, …
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Moonwalkers
Reviewed onMark Greenwood is an expert at turning historical events into exciting stories, thus making them accessible to young readers. Moonwalkers distils the essence of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission and …
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