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11 June, 2008 Repetitive in plot and language, this first picture book from a well-known writer of novels for children encourages the very young reader to anticipate outcomes by following action on almost wordless pages 
11 June, 2008 This great-value book and CD package will delight children from two to eight years, and be snapped up by schools wanting to adapt it for their own musical performances. 
11 June, 2008 What fun readers young and old are going to have with this rhythmic book that is an encouragement to make lots of noise. 
11 June, 2008 This is a lovely picture book to share with the very young—perfect for bed-time and one that can be enjoyed over and over again. 
1 June, 2008 There are millions of kids in the world who feel like they don’t belong. 
1 June, 2008 Set in the 1800s in the Victorian goldfields, this prose-poetry novel throws the reader in at the deep end. 
1 June, 2008 In Captain Cook: Sailing off the Map Craig Scutt follows the ascent of Cook from a boy born to farmhands to a man whose death elicits tears from King George III. 
1 June, 2008 The arrival of a new baby can be traumatic for older siblings; especially if Mum is unwell during the pregnancy. 
1 June, 2008 Victor is a nice young prince, although a bit hapless at the best of times. 
1 June, 2008 John Nicholson’s fourth offering in the ‘Transport, Trade and Travel’ series—Steam, Steel and Speed would make an excellent resource for teachers and students alike, to find out about the Australian ‘industrial revolution’ from the 1850s to the 1920s. 
1 June, 2008 Just 24 (full-sized) pages long but with big, bold illustrations, this book has an arresting cover image of the bear staring grumpily straight into the viewer’s eyes. 
1 June, 2008 Prime Ministers made interesting-that’s worth reading! Aimed at the seven-plus age group, this book has gathered many quirky facts and presented them in short, easily digestible titbits. 
1 June, 2008 There seems to be no end to Jackie French’s wonderful imagination and storytelling skills. 
1 June, 2008 Sixteen-year-old Sapho is a Greek-Australian schoolgirl and part-time dancer in the cheerleading squad of the local professional basketball team. 
1 June, 2008 I love Carole Wilkinson’s historical fiction writing and the latest in this Black Dog series is no exception. 
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. |
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