27 Sept 2014
It’s summertime and Wombat and his friends have gone to the beach for a holiday. Croc’s water-wise cousin, Salty, is teaching surfing to everyone – Emu, Koala…
25 Sept 2014
All the kids in Lily’s class are so excited. It’s Pet Day and each of them is allowed to bring their favourite pet for the big pet parade. There are all the…
24 Sept 2014
Canadian graphic artists Carroll’s volume is a gorgeous, glossy collection of deliciously eerie tales inspired by classic Grimm fairy tales and the Gothic…
23 Sept 2014
I’ll get the bad news out of the way first. It is ridiculous that publications such as these, which are impeccably researched by educated scholars and even in…
21 Sept 2014
Oh jeez! This really is one of those times – or the first of many, depending how often you pick this book up – that you can’t help but laugh at the misfortune…
20 Sept 2014
Best friends Jess and Lily are off on another magical adventure. This time they have to help wake up Patch Muddlepup – Poppy’s twin brother – after the evil…
20 Sept 2014
The esteemed and prolific Atwood’s latest is an interconnected (but not always obviously), often darkly funny selection of nine short stories that tend to…
20 Sept 2014
Every now and then you read a book so ludicrously original, so incandescent with intelligence and written with such audacity that you are stunned into an…
10 Sept 2014
As a self-confessed lover of the green smoothie and the energy-giving health benefits they bring; a little bit of weight-loss thrown in makes for a welcome…
10 Sept 2014
For some reason, not one that he can think of, Little Max the gorilla wakes up feeling really grumpy. He doesn’t want his favourite breakfast cereal, his…
5 Sept 2014
Virginia Macgregor’s debut novel, What Milo Saw is already scaling heights more seasoned writers only dream of. It’s being translated into no fewer than ten –…
29 Aug 2014
From the illustrator of The Gruffalo , Stick Man and Room On The Broom , comes the second book in the Flip Flap series; Flip Flap Safari .