Kids' Book Review
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Review: Somebody's Land - Kids' Book Review
Nov 2, 2021 · For thousands and thousands of years, Aboriginal people lived in the land we now call Australia. Somebody’s Land: Welcome to Our Country, is the first of a five-book series that intends to be a resource to draw on to educate children about the traditional owners of our land, the First Nations people, and their Indigenous culture. Powerful and direct, the text is …
Review: The Boy and the Elephant - Kids' Book Review
Jan 12, 2022 · It pulls at your heart and makes you think and smile with wonder. And there's not a single word on the pages. Award-winning illustrator Freya Blackwood brings the world something exquisite in this wordless picture book. Each spread tells a story in itself but also adds to the bigger narrative of the book. What this provides readers is a unique ...
Review: Footprint - Kids' Book Review
Mar 15, 2024 · Review: Footprint. Walk into morning, the open air. Wake to the wonder you find there. Explore the wild with Footprint, a brilliant picture book for lovers of adventure, exploring and all things wild. This lyrical tale follows a range of kids as they explore the outdoors and nature. It’s a bit like an instruction manual, providing inspiration ...
Review: The Concrete Garden - Kids' Book Review
Multi-awarding winning author/illustrator Bob Graham has released another soul-stirring picture book: The Concrete Garden.His teetering piles of published books include, April Underhill, Toothfairy, Home in the Rain, The Posey Ring and Ellie’s Dragon. This time it’s a gentle post-pandemic story set in an urban apartment block, at the end of COVID lockdown.
Review: Bravepaw and the Heartstone of Alluria
2 days ago · Bravepaw and the Heartsone of Alluria is the first book in a bold adventure series with a strong resourceful heroine. The characters are animals but not all are the conventional type. Titch the smallest mouseling in her family, wants to be a warrior. She practices with her staff of sturdy oak, and pretends she is Bravepaw, the warrior mentioned ...
Review: Wanderer - Kids' Book Review
Feb 14, 2023 · I highly recommend it for able readers from around Year 6 upwards – though be mindful that there is descriptive episodes of violence throughout. Title: Wanderer. Author: Victor Kelleher. Illustrator: Cover and internal illustrations by Lorena Carrington. Publisher: Eagle Books Imprint: Christmas Press, $19.99.
Kids' Book Review: Review: Sabina and the Cats of Rome
Oct 27, 2024 · Sabina is so bored she jumps at the chance of an adventure and of course, agrees. Off she goes on the greatest undertaking of her young life, in the company of her two dogs, Major and Minor. It is not as easy to find the wizard as the two travellers imagined. She has King Rat and his minions, a snake charmer, and lots of people that refuse to ...
Review: Silver Linings - Kids' Book Review
Feb 21, 2024 · Review: Silver Linings. Five-year-old Nettie longs for a mother with whom to share cuddles and conversation. She is tortured by the fact that I arrived. My mother died. The voice of Nettie as narrator is innocent, simple and realistic, while her inner observations successfully draw the intended response from the reader.
Kids' Book Review: Review: Penguin Bloom, Young Readers' Edition
Saturday 13 March 2021. Review: Penguin Bloom, Young Readers' Edition. “ All pets are therapy pets – some are just undercover ” said a meme I saw recently. This could have been written about Penguin, the orphaned magpie who came into the Bloom family’s lives just when they needed her the most. Based on a true story, this novel portrays ...