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Timeline

November 20, 2020

Peter Goes, Timeline: Science and Technology, Walker Books, October 2020, 80 pp., RRP $34.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781776573004 This large format (A3) illustrated book appears to have been […]

History

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Information Books Picture Books Reviews Younger Readers

Jackie Kerin (text) and Annie White (illustrator), Gold! Ford Street Publishing, September 2020, 32pp., RRP $16.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781925804539 This book is inspired by the art of Eugene Von Guerard and S.T.

Australian history, gold, gold mining, Historical fiction, History, Humanities

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Older Readers Reviews

The Fountains of Silence

November 19, 2019

Ruta Sepetys, The Fountains of Silence, Penguin Books Ltd., 512 pp., October 2019, RRP $24.99, (pbk), ISBN 9780241422236 There are

History, Love, Post-war spain, Sense of Identity

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Information Books Reviews Younger Readers

Amazing Transport: Journey Through the History of Transport

April 13, 2019

Tom Jackson (text), and Chris Mould (illustrator), Amazing transport: Journey Through the History of Transport, Bloomsbury, March 2019, 64pp., $24.99,

Airplanes, Cars, History, Humanities, Innovation, Science, Ships, STEM, Technology, trains, Transport

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Information Books Reviews Younger Readers

Boats Fast & Slow

January 21, 2019

Iris Volant (text) , and Jarom Vogel (illustrator), Boats Fast & Slow, Flying Eye Books, September 2018, 48 pp., RRP

Boats, Geography, History, Humanities, Semaphore Alphabet

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Information Books Intermediate Readers

Sachiko: a Nagasaki bomb survivor’s story

February 13, 2017

Caren Stelson, Sachiko: a Nagasaki bomb survivor’s story, CarolRhoda Books/Walker Books Australia, 1 Nov 2016, 144pp., $27.99 (hbk), ISBN: 9781467789035 “When

Atomic bomb, Biography, History, Humanities, Japan history, Nagasaki, war victims, World War II

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Intermediate Readers

Within These Walls (My Holocaust Story #2)

June 7, 2016

Robyn Bavati, Within These Walls (My Holocaust Story #2), Scholastic Australia; 1 April 2016, 208pp., $16.99 (pbk), ISBN: 9781760152857 Within

children, family, Genocide, Historical fiction, History, Holocaust, Humanities, Jewish peoples, Poland, Teacher Notes, Warsaw, World War II

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Older Readers Picture Books

Australia to Z

March 7, 2016

Armin Greder, Australia to Z, Allen & Unwin, Jan 2016, 32pp., $29.99 (hbk), ISBN: 9781760113186 Armin Greder’s Australia to Z uses

Alphabet, Australia, Australian Identity, Australiana, Culture & Diversity, History

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Intermediate Readers

Hanna (My Holocaust Story #1)

May 8, 2015

Goldie Alexander, Hanna (My Holocaust Story #1), Scholastic Australia, March 2015, $16.99 (pbk), 192pp., ISBN 0781743629673 Hanna is one of a series of