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Threads: Sophia Bennett
Threads is one of those rare books that balances fun and current affairs in equal amounts!
Narrator Nonie is a 14-year-old London girl who is completely obsessed with fashion, a passion that isn’t shared by her two best buds: Edie…
Transference: Spoon
When it comes to super cool, economical pop nobody does it better than this Austin, Texas outfit. On the heels of Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, one of 2007’s absolute best, the band are back to their ever consistent…
A Woman Of Seville: Sallie Muirden
Seville in the year 1616 is a place of betrayal and torture, with the spying eyes of the Inquisition everywhere. Moorish settlers are banished from Spain and their traumatised children are locked away in monasteries for religious conversion with even…
I Want To Play Music Too: Charlie And Lola: Lauren Child
Now I am the first to admit that the hugely-popular Charlie and Lola need little help to sell their books. But I Want To Play Music Too is so outstandingly awesome I feel duty-bound to tell you about it.
Charlie…
Insect Detective: Steve And Charlotte Voake
Insects are vital to our environment and this delightfully informative picture book introduces us to different insects and interesting facts about them. Uncluttered and well laid out, young children can learn to use an index to look up specific details…
The Sound of Music: A Classic Collectible Pop-Up
Yes, you read right! POP-UP Sound of Music! This book tells the story of the much-loved musical with the help of some fantastic paper engineering and illustration. Each spread has a bit of the story, a pop-up scene, and the…
Fragile Eternity: Melissa Marr
Unlike the first two books in the series it took me a little time to get in to this book, maybe because the kind of books I like to read have a little more adventure in them. I am not…
The Cello Suites: Eric Siblin
I recently read a new book out called The Cello Suites by Eric Siblin. This book is about the composer JS Bach the creator of the Cello Suites, cellist Pablo Casals who rediscovered and championed the cello suites and the…
Hush Collection Volume 10
Songs with Strings is the latest addition to the Hush series - which features renowned Australian musicians giving freely of their art to produce albums of gentle music, with proceeds supporting children’s hospitals throughout Australia. For volume 10, the Grigorian…
Strine: The complete works of Professor Afferbeck Lauder
As John Clarke outlines in his foreward, in 1965 an unusual book called Let Stalk Strine (Let’s talk Australia) thumped onto the nearly bare humour section. It was apparently written by a man named Professor Afferbeck Lauder (Professor Alphabetical Order)…
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