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Odder: An Otter Story

June 10, 2025

Katherine Applegate (text) and Charles Santoso (illustrator), Odder: An Otter’s story, University of Queensland Press, April 2025, 40 pp., RRP […]

adapted book, encouraging empathy, endangered animals, environmental protection, lyrical text, natural world, Otters, picture book, rescued animals

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Amid the Sand Dunes

June 9, 2025

Andrea Rowe (text) and Hannah Sommerville (illustrator), Amid the Sand Dunes, Little Hare, October 2024, 24 pp., RRP $19.99 (Board),

2025 notable book, australian flora and fauna, board book, coastal life, connecting with nature, early childhood book, lyrical text, Nature, poetic language, rhyming text, sand dunes

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Fairy Beach

November 4, 2024

Sheila Knaggs (text) and Jennifer Falkner (illustrator), Fairy Beach, Affirm Press, August 2024, 32 pp., RRP $22.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781922848147

beaches, early childhood book, Fairies, imagination, lyrical text, magical creatures, picture book, Wonder

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Willow’s Gumboots

October 30, 2024

Beverley McWilliams (text) and Hélène Magisson (illustrator), Willow’s Gumboots, MidnightSun Publishing, October 2024, 32 pp., RRP $29.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781922858535

activities, connection with nature, gardening, Imaginative Play, lyrical text, onomatopoeia, recycling, Seasons, sustainability

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Hello my name is Ruby Philpott, my mother is Cath Pownall, Eve Pownall is my great grandmother. Thank you for…

This book is one of the best books I've ever read. Scarlett's story is heartbreaking yet heartwarming all at the…

I really like this book

i am reading this book for home work and it is so intriguing and i want to be like scoop…

It was a really good book I loved reading it