There’s Something Weird About Lena
Sigi Cohen (text) and James Foley (illustration), There’s Something Weird About Lena, Walker Books, October 2020, 32 pp., RRP $25.99 (hbk), ISBN […]
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Reading Time’s Best of 2020
It seems universally agreed that 2020 as a whole was a sub-par experience. However, it wasn’t all bad … Reading
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Cinderella Is Dead
Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead, Bloomsbury, August 2020, 400 pp., RRP $15.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781526621979 Two hundred years ago Cinderella died and since then there is an
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What Zola Did on Wednesday
Melina Marchetta (text), and Deb Hudson (illustrator), What Zola Did on Wednesday, Puffin Books, September 2020, 96 pp., RRP $12.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781760895174 This is the third book in the
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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dangerous Animals
Sami Bayly, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Dangerous Animals, Lothian Children’s Books, September 2020, 126 pp., RRP $32.99 (hbk), ISBN 9780734420015 Sami Bayly who bought us the
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Brain Freeze
Oliver Phommavanh, Brain Freeze: 12 Deliciously Wacky Stories, Penguin Australia, September 2020, 224pp., RRP $14.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781760897147 This collection
Go Away, Worry Monster!
Brooke Graham (text), and Robin Tatlow-Lord (illustrator), Go Away Worry Monster!, EK Books, September 2020, 32 pp., RRP $24.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781925820393 Late one night Worry Monster creeps into
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Searching for Seashells
Kerry Rosser (text) and Nicky Johnston (illustrator), Searching for Seashells, Empowering Resources, September 2020, 32 pp., RRP $17.00 (pbk), ISBN 9781925592276 Told in the first
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The Great Godden
Meg Rosoff, The Great Godden, Bloomsbury, August 2020, 245pp., RRP $15.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781526620538 The blurb from Bloomsbury for this book describes Meg Rosoff as incomparable,
This One is Ours
Kate O’Donnell, This One is Ours, University of Queensland Press, September 2020, 312 pp., RRP $19.99 (pbk), ISBN 9780702260285 It’s hard to remember