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This is My Dad

August 22, 2022

Dimity Powell (text) and Nicky Johnston (illustrator), This is My Dad, EK Books, March 2022, 24 pp., RRP $24.99 (hbk), […]

Australian author, Australian illustrator, creativity, family, imagination, Parents, relationships, single parent

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Early Childhood Books Picture Books Reviews

Happy Hoppy Home

December 3, 2021

Tull Suwannakit, Happy Hoppy Home, Scholastic, August 2021, 24 pp., RRP $19.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781742999937 Papa Hare is a single

animals, Australian author/illustrator, family, Father, Home, single parent

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Reviews Younger Readers

Melina Marchetta (text) and Deb Hudson (illustrator), What Zola did on Monday, Puffin Books, June 2020, 96pp., RRP $12.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781760895150 Zola is a young girl who tries but doesn’t always get things

Community, family, grief, single parent, sustainability

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Older Readers

Fat Angie

September 25, 2014

CHARLTON-TRUJILLO, e. E. Fat Angie Candlewick, 2013 264pp $19.95 ISBN 9780763661199 SCIS 1610650 There is a great deal of hate

Body Image, Bullying, defence families, Depression, family, Hate, Iraq, obesity, school, siblings, single parent

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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