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Turtle Moon

April 4, 2025

Hannah Gold (text) and Levi Pinfold (illustrator), Turtle Moon, HarperCollins, October 2024, 336 pp., RRP $17.99 (pbk), ISBN 9780008582081 This […]

animals, Climate Change, eco fiction, Environmental preservation, family, friendship, grief and loss, infertility, Sloths, Turtles

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Early Childhood Books Highly Recommended Picture Books Reviews Uncategorized Younger Readers

Don’t Worry, Felix

February 23, 2025

Yohann Devezy and Katharine Alice (text), Zoe Bennett (illustrator), Don’t Worry, Felix, New Frontier Publishing, October 2024, 32 pp., RRP

big feelings, coping strategies, courage, early childhood book, highly recommended, parental bonds, picture book, relationships, resilience, school anxiety, Starting school, tips for emotional wellbeing

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The Grown-Up’s Guide to Picture Books

October 9, 2024

Lara Cain Gray (text) and Timothy Ide & Lorena Carrington (illustrators), The Grown-Up’s Guide to Picture Books, MidnightSun Publishing, September

picture book

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Intermediate Readers Professional Development Reviews Uncategorized

Everything Anxiety Ever Told you is a Lie!

July 24, 2024

Toni Lindsay, Everything Anxiety Ever Told You Is a Lie (*Well, Almost Everything!), Exisle Publishing, July 2024, 144 pp., RRP $37.99

Anxiety, information book, mental wellbeing, older readers, psychology, Teacher Resource

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Announcing the 2024 CBCA Book of the Year Award Shortlists

March 19, 2024

Book of the Year Older Readers Entries in this category may be fiction, drama or poetry and should be appropriate

awards, CBCA Awards, CBCA Shortlist 2024, Early Childhood books, Eve Pownall shortlist, information books, literary awards, older readers, shortlisted, Younger Readers

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Picture Books Reviews Uncategorized Younger Readers

Nova’s missing masterpiece

March 14, 2024

Brooke Graham (text), and Robin Tatlow-Lord (illustrator), Nova’s missing masterpiece, EK Books, February 2024, 32 pp., RRP $24.99 (hbk), ISBN 978192 539373

anger management, Anxiety, big feelings, coping strategies, dogs, Persistence, picture book, Problem solving, support dogs

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Early Childhood Books Picture Books Reviews Uncategorized Younger Readers

Tayta’s secret ingredient

March 7, 2024

Amal Abou-Eid (text), and Cara King (illustrator), Tayta’s secret ingredient, MidnightSun Publishing, March 2024, 30 pp., RRP $29.99 (hbk), ISBN

celebrations, cooking, cultural diversity, family, Harmony day, intergenerations, Lebanese-Muslim, multicultural Australia, traditions

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Favourite reads of 2023 – Margot & Susanne

December 25, 2023

We asked our reviewers to send in their favourite reads of 2023. Some will be those they read for review,

favourite books of the year, suggestions

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Intermediate Readers Reviews Uncategorized

Juniper’s Christmas

December 18, 2023

Eoin Colfer (text) and Chaaya Prabhat (illustrator), Juniper’s Christmas, HarperCollins Publishers, November 2023, 350 pp., RRP $19.99 (pbk), ISBN 9780008475543

adventure, Christmas, family, magic, middle fiction, missing parents, social issues, twisty

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