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Let’s Build a Backyard

August 26, 2022

Mike Lucas (text) and Daron Parton (illustrator), Let’s Build a Backyard, Hachette Australia, April 2022, 24 pp., RRP $24.99 (hbk), […]

activities, Australian author, Backyard, bees, gardening, rhyming text, sustainability

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Intermediate Readers Reviews Younger Readers

Mars Awakens

August 4, 2022

H M Waugh, Mars Awakens, Allen and Unwin, May 2022, 288 pp., RRP $16.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781760526979 Mars Awakens by

adventure, Australian author, book in series, Mars, relationships, Space, Speculative fiction, sustainability, Technology

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It’s Up to Us

July 7, 2022

Christopher Lloyd, It’s Up to Us, A Children’s Terra Carta for Nature, People & Planet, Walker Books, March 2022, 64

climate action, Climate Change, conservation, illustrations, information book, Renewable energy, Science, sustainability

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What Zola Did on Thursday

July 6, 2021

Melina Marchetta (text) and Deb Hudson (illustrator), What Zola Did on Thursday, Penguin Australia, February 2021, 96 pp., RRP $12.99

Australian author, Australian illustrator, book in series, Community, Early Readers, friendship, grief, Kindness, sustainability

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Picture Books Reviews

The Plastic Throne

May 25, 2021

Amani Uduman (text) & Kera Bruton (illustrator), The Plastic Throne, MidnightSun Publishing, March 2021, 32pp., RRP $24.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781925227802

Australian author, Australian illustrator, Decision making, environment, sustainability, Teacher Resource, waste management

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Information Books Picture Books Reviews

A Climate in Chaos

November 15, 2020

Neal Layton, A climate in chaos and how you can help, Wren & Rook, August 2020, 32 pp., RRP $15.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781526362315 This

Climate Change, Environmental preservation, environmental protection, Global warming, Humanities, Science, sustainability

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Picture Books Reviews Younger Readers

Mama Ocean

October 4, 2020

Jane Jolly (text) & Sally Heinrich (illustrator), Mama Ocean, MidnightSun Publishing, September 2020, RRP $29.99 (hbk) ISBN 9781925227659 Mama Ocean

Environmental preservation, Gods & Goddesses, Humanities, Oceans, Science, sustainability, waste management, Water conservation, Water Pollution

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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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Information Books Picture Books Reviews

Fantastically Great Women Who Saved the Planet

April 16, 2020

Kate Pankhurst, Fantastically Great Women Who Saved the Planet, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, March 2020, 32 pp., RRP $14.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781408899298 Selecting