Kids reviews
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
When Alex Rider is woken up in the middle of the night and told that his uncle, who is also his sole guardian, has been killed in a car crash, his life rearranges itself around him. Enter MI6, a supe…
I’ll Always Be Older than You by Jane Godwin & Sara Acton
Being an older sibling can be challenging; patience is required, as the little girl in the book learns.
A little planning doesn’t go astray and so she hops into her little brother’s cot and outline…
Paolo, Emperor of Rome by Mac Barnett & Claire Keane
Paolo, a dachshund, lives in a hairdressing salon but he is desperate to escape and experience Rome in all its historic glory. One day he manages to slip out and the city he long imagined comes alive…
Your Birthday Was the Best! by Maggie Hutchings & Felicita Sala
This is a delightful and energetic picture book about a happy-go-lucky cockroach crashing a birthday party. The cake looks absolutely delicious and that’s not at all a surprise because this book is i…
The List of Things that Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead
Twelve-year-old Bea reflects on life since her parent’s divorce and the many challenges periodically conspiring to overwhelm her: family adjustments, school frustrations, struggles with spelling and …
Landing with Wings by Trace Balla
It’s been four long years since Trace Balla’s last graphic novel, Rockhopping, but it’s been utterly worth the wait. Landing with Wings is the story of a young girl, Mira, and her mum, who move to th…
The Line Tender by Kate Allen
Lucy and Fred are very best friends and collaborating on a summer project. Already a passionate biologist at 13, Fred asks Lucy (a talented artist in the throes of self-discovery) to illustrate a fie…
The January Stars by Kate Constable
Clancy and Tash have kidnapped their grandfather from an agedcare home. He’s a stroke survivor in a wheelchair whose main form of communication is just a few words: ‘yes’, ‘nah’ and ‘sp-sp-sp-’. They…
Wink by Rob Harrell
High school, Year 7, everything is meant to be normal, right? But not for Ross Maloy. With a sudden and horrifying diagnosis Ross becomes the ‘cancer kid’. A rare, aggressive eye cancer turns his wor…
Dear Earth by Isabel Otter & Clara Anganuzzi
The latest from the wonderful children’s author Isabel Otter, Dear Earth tells the story of a grandfather and his granddaughter Tessa, as he teaches her about the importance of our Planet Earth and a…
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