Readings staff customerservice@readings.com.au http://www.readings.com.au/feed/collection/port-melbourne-recommends-kids 2008-04-28T03:02:23Z 9780439813785 <p>This intriguing story of Hugo Cabret – an orphan and timekeeper secretly living within the walls of a busy Paris train station – is a mystery in many ways. Children will love the book’s unusual story with its dramatic illustrations, yet the novel’s form – a combination of story, wordless picture book and silent movie – defies description. You must both see it and read it. It’s a very strange and wonderful book of a strange yet wonderful story. Highly recommended for boys and girls ages 9+.</p> <p><i>Athina Clarke is from Readings St Kilda.</i></p> 9780140569322 <p>Eric Carle's <i>The Very Hungry Caterpillar</i> is a perennial favourite with children and adults alike. Its imaginative illustration and clever cut-out detail charts the progress of a very hungry caterpillar as he eats his way through the week.</p> 9781741751192 <p><em>What happened to Olive wasn't because she'd only ever felt half. It didn't even happen because her house was full of crap-knacks and clutter, because she called her mother Mog, or because she knew of a man named WilliamPetersMustardSeed. It wasn't because she had a peculiar relationship with the number two, or because her skin was the exact colour of chicken loaf. Although there was never any doubt that it was a shake-it-all-about hokey-pokey of all these things, what happened to Olive couldn't have happened without Mathilda Graham.</em></p> <p>Olive Garnaut likes things in pairs. But even with her own perfectly symmetrical family, birthday and bedroom, Olive has only ever felt half. How extraordinary, then, that one day Pip should appear...</p> 9780732285401 <p>It is 1915. War is being fought on a horrific scale in the trenches of France, but it might as well be a world away from sixteen–year–old New Zealander Midge Macpherson, at school in England learning to be a young lady. But the war is coming closer: Midge's brothers are in the army, and her twin, Tim, is listed as 'missing' in the devastating defeat of the Anzac forces at Gallipoli .</p> <p>Desperate to do their bit – and avoid the boredom of school and the restrictions of Society – Midge and her friends Ethel and Anne start a canteen in France, caring for the endless flow of wounded soldiers returning from the front. Midge, recruited by the over–stretched ambulance service, is thrust into carnage and scenes of courage she could never have imagined. And when the war is over, all three girls – and their Anzac boys as well – discover that even going 'home' can be both strange and wonderful.</p> 9780007258185 <p>What would you do if a very large ceratosaurus stomped into your classroom? And what if the student sitting next to you was a gigantic silvisaurus – who decided to jump on top of his desk?</p> <p>Come along for a very unusual day where dinosaur show–and–tell, story time and playtime antics will make even the best–behaved dinosaurs laugh out loud.</p> <p>School has never been so much fun!</p> 9781845076023 <p>When Dad loses his keys, toddler Mary suspects they are down the back of the chair. Join in the fun as the family search and find everything from a bandicoot and a bumble bee to a string of pearls and a lion with curls. But will it be enough to save the family from rack and ruin?</p>