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Shearer By: Neridah McMullin Childrens book Review
Shearer written by Neridah McMullin and Illustrated by Michael Tomkins , is an historical Australian children’s picture book about famous sheep shearer Jack Howe . Jack Howe was a shearer who sheared 321 sheep in one day using hand shears in 1982 a record that still stands today. The book Shearer uses amzing bright and funny artwork and features shearing and historical Australian terminology making a great read for older children and features a glossary making it an excellent resource for those wanting to learn about Australia’s sheering history. The true story about the greatest shearer in the world … whose incredible shearing record remains unbeaten after more than a…
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Book week 2023 – Read, Grow, Inspire – Children’s Book Council of Australia; (CBCA)
Book week 2023 – Read, Grow, Inspire – Children’s Book Council of Australia has now begun! Book week has just started today run by the amazing Children’s Book Council of Australia; (CBCA). Running from Saturday, 19 August to Friday, 25 August 2023 this is a very important celebration of all things books. This year the theme is READ, GROW, INSPIRE and its Feature Artist is the great Matt Ottley What dress up are you or your children going as ? and how will the theme of Read grow and inspire shape your book week ?
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A Magic Evermore: Book One in the Mirri Langley Series
A Magic Evermore: Book One in the Mirri Langley Series is the exciting new book series by Michelle Massie . A fun read for Older children and young adults – think Narnia with a magical journal – set to be a series of 3 books . A mystical land ruled by evil . . . Few creatures who remember how life used to be . . . And a young girl flung into this world of tyranny and oppression. The magical world of Althord Loch is crumbling . . . at the hands of the evil Panthera. Fifteen-year-old Mirri is struggling with the guilt of her father’s death, when she…
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Review: The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson
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Millie Mak the Maker (Millie Mak book number 1)
Millie Mak the Maker Millie Mak the Maker by Alice Pung and illustrated by sher rill Ng is an upcoming young adult novel . inspiring series for young and old makers by the award-winning author-illustrator team Alice Pung and Sher Rill Ng.Nine-year-old Millie Mak has discovered she has a superpower!Millie has been taught how to sew by her two grannies. And using recycled materials, Millie has learnt how to take everyday objects and turn them into something new, beautiful and useful. Who would ever think that a sunhat could be made from an old bedsheet, a skirt from a tea towel, or some hair scrunchies from a scarf?With this new-found…
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Footprints in the Moon Blog Tour
