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14 February, 2009 Mr Green is looking for a new nanny for his three children, their mother having died in a boating accident. 
14 February, 2009 The main characters in this book are not referred to by name. 
14 February, 2009 Award-wining children’s book author Dubosarsky appears at ease writing stories for the very young all the way through to teenagers. 
14 February, 2009 This picture book is based on the true stories of the ‘boy soldiers’—some as young as 16—who fought with the Australian army in WWI. 
14 February, 2009 ‘My mummy is magic’ begins the simple text, as the young narrator lists the magical aspects of her mummy: her body (‘she grew me in her tummy’), hands (brushing hair and pushing the swing), her eyes (‘she knows when I haven’t brushed my teeth’) and so on. 
14 February, 2009 A hybrid of picture book and scrapbook, this is a story of substance for older readers, with a subtle history lesson woven in. 
14 February, 2009 JasperMcFlea is a companion volume to the popular picture book, Ella Kazoo Will Not Brush Her Hair, by the same author. 
14 February, 2009 Fair Dinkum Aussie Easter is an ocker Easter songbook and CD celebrating everything uniquely (and stereotypically) Aussie on this holiday, including backyard cricket and old board games on Easter long weekend 
14 February, 2009 As part of the ‘Walker Classics’ series, Walker Books has published a 25th anniversary edition of the awarded and noted book, The Duck in the Gun. 
13 February, 2009 A little boy and his toy duck do everything together— eating dinner, sleeping, having a bath. When ‘Duck’ is sad, our protagonist comforts him. 
13 February, 2009 Kicking off with news of an abandoned newborn baby, The China Garden pulls readers straight in before winding the pace back to slowly develop the characters that people the small, unnamed northern- NSW town in which the novel is set. 
13 February, 2009 After the Fall follows the marriages of Kate and Cary, and Cressida and Luke. 
13 February, 2009 I have been fortunate in the past to have reviewed several of Fiona’s fantasy titles, but was surprised to discover that her new novel, Beautiful Death, is crime fiction. 
13 February, 2009 Forster’s debut novel is a powerful and emotional work that begins with the funeral of Emmett, the main protagonist. 
13 February, 2009 The boarding school memoir or novel is an enduring literary subgenre, from 1950s classics such as The Catcher in the Rye to Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep. 
13 February, 2009 Mining similar territory to the over-hyped Boned (released in 2008), The Boys’ Club shines a harsh (yet humorous) light onto the outrageous sexism within Australian commercial television. 
13 February, 2009 Ramotchka’s uncle fails to return one night, and the five-year-old is left alone in an abandoned building. 
13 February, 2009 Those already familiar with the Les Norton novels of Robert G Barrett will know just what to expect from the big, redheaded Queenslander and his creator, the Bondi butcher turned bestselling novelist. 
13 February, 2009 Look Who’s Morphing is a surprising, funny collection of short stories, which converge on themes of family, cultural influence, technology, sexuality and ethnicity. 
13 February, 2009 Following the success of his Miles Franklin awardwinning novel, The Time We Have Taken, Steven Carroll moves us away from Melbourne suburbia, and graces us with an absorbing tale set in an English country town in 1934. 
13 February, 2009 Move to Strike by Sydney Bauer is the fourth book in the hugely popular defence attorney David Cavanaugh series, and if this one is anything to go by, we will be seeing Bauer’s name on many more page-turners. 
13 February, 2009 It’s great to have the opportunity to review a book on a subject so close to my heart! In the 1980s, my father was principal of Yalata School, and I went to the pre-school 
13 February, 2009 In the same series as the award-winning The Penguin Book: Birds in Suits, and by the same author, comes this attractive, easily browsed book on a hot topic. 
13 February, 2009 If you’ve ever been puzzled by the controversysurrounding debates about the prehistoric evolutionof humankind, then Bone Readers is a must-readfor you. 
13 February, 2009 As Kerry Greenwood points out in her introduction, many people are ‘fascinated by wicked misdeeds and illegal acts’. |
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