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1 June, 2008 Shutterspeed, the first novel by Perth author A J Betts, tells the story of Fremantle teenager, Dustin who is uninspired by school, emotionally estranged from his father and passionate about nothing. 
1 June, 2008 This fine picture book brought to us by the author of Queenie: One Elephant’s Story tells the story behind one of Australia’s best-loved monuments-the dog on the tucker box that sits just outside Gundagai in New South Wales. 
1 June, 2008 Unfortunately for this book, it was the third YA novel I’d read this year featuring a hyper-intelligent young boy who memorises words from the dictionary but can’t function well socially. 
1 June, 2008 Who doesn’t know Slim Newton’s 1972 song ‘Redback on the Toilet Seat’? It was an instant country hit and surely replays in many minds if ever confronted with a cobwebby outdoor ‘dunny’. 
1 June, 2008 What’s a Fent, you may ask? When one appears in eight-year-old Curly’s bedroom, he isn’t sure either. 
1 June, 2008 In the sturdy tradition of the fractured fairytale comes this re-interpretation of Cinderella as part of the ‘Aussie Gems’ series of value-priced hardcover picture books. 
1 June, 2008 ‘Long ago when my mother was a child, there was an enormous frangipani tree that grew in the town of Flying Fish Point.’ 
1 June, 2008 Pignataro was already an accomplished illustrator of other people’s texts, when she established herself as author/illustrator with Always (mother/child teddies) and Princess and Fairy (pink and detailed and glittery). 
1 June, 2008 This book is fast, exciting and thoroughly entertaining. 
1 June, 2008 Alyana is a headstrong young girl from the Trahern tribe who lives on the fringes of the great Gurcross forest with her widowed father. 
1 June, 2008 There are surprisingly few new ‘horsey’ stories for middle-upper primary school-age children set in Australia, so this first novel from an American-born writer makes a welcome addition to this genre. 
1 June, 2008 The jacket treatment for Mac Slater Coolhunter 1: The Rules of Cool will successfully pull in the 15 year-olds among us, but it will fail the credibility test for those most severe of critics. 
1 June, 2008 This is an addition to the still-too-small number of Indigenous picture books. 
1 June, 2008 The Taris project is the last hope of a world falling apart. An island sheltered by a dome from the outside world. 
1 June, 2008 These four playful board books for babies and toddlers have plenty of the rhythm and rhyme we have come to love in Alison Lester’s work. 
1 June, 2008 Bill Condon has built a strong reputation as a prolific writer of YA novels whose work bravely faces uneasy truths. 
1 June, 2008 ‘When Sian can’t sleep, she likes to count sheep. From one to ten, then start again. 
1 June, 2008 The gross factor is well and truly engaged from the opening sentence. 
31 March, 2008 This book will attract browsers to pick it up and dip inside, with its lettuce-green cover and plumpish small landscape shape. It is almost wordless, telling a story in a sequence of zestful pictures with just a few of the action words beloved of cartoonists: boing, snip, whoosh 
30 March, 2008 Jinx is in trouble and not because of the jokes she tells. She needs money fast. A rogue totem tennis ball has broken the next-door neighbour’s python tank. 
29 March, 2008 What a confronting, brutally frank, poignant novel, written by Kate McCaffrey, author of the successful novel, Destroying Avalon. In Ecstasy illustrates how easily, teens can turn to the insidious world of drug addiction, date rape and alcoholism, and why, for many, drugs are the solution, not the problem. 
28 March, 2008 Joy of joys, a sequel that lives up to the first novel! Cornish’s second novel of the series about his oddly named hero Rossamünd Bookchild continues with ever more harrowing adventures. 
27 March, 2008 The opening scenes are of city skyscrapers and a lone bird flying towards a glass tower in the clouds. For adult readers these images will evoke 9/11 New York. Then, in cartoon-style vignettes we see grey crowds of city folk walking past the wounded bird which has hit the building and plummeted to the footpath. 
25 March, 2008 Nathan Foley is tired of getting ‘encouragement’ awards. He’s going to try anything to get some recognition. He’s ‘going for broke’ even if it kills him. This entry into Walker Books ‘Lightning Strikes’ series for less confident readers finds Nathan trying everything to be recognised as someone exceptional. 
24 March, 2008 Taking the Chequered Flag by Michael Panckridge and Pam Harvey is the fourth book the pair have written together. Panckridge has also writte numerous other novels, including the popular ‘Legends’ series |
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