Claire Atherfold

Claire Atherfold is the manager of Readings State Library

Review — 21 Jul 2019

Moving Your Body by Beci Orpin

Melbourne-based artist, illustrator and designer Beci Orpin has previously produced four beautiful craft books, Make & Do; Home: 25 Amazing Projects; Sunshine Spaces; and Find & Keep

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Review — 24 Jun 2019

Fashionista by Maxine Beneba Clarke

Award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke has already given us such great books as ThePatchwork Bike, Wide Big World and The Hate Race, among others, and now we have…

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Review — 22 Apr 2019

Willow Moss and the Lost Day by Dominique Valente

Visit Starfell, a land where magic is bursting back into the world in unexpected, fantastic ways, but also in the odd and unremarkable – or so they first appear.

Willow…

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Review — 27 Mar 2019

Kindness Rules! by Eunice & Sabrina Moyle

Eunice and Sabrina Moyle, the team behind Hello!Lucky and the creators of Super Pooper and Whizz Kid: Potty Power!, have created another glorious board book, this time about manners.

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Review — 25 Feb 2019

Lottie and Walter by Anna Walker

Award-winning local author and illustrator Anna Walker, creator of such favourites as Florette, Mr Huff and Peggy, amongst others, has done it again with her latest wonder, Lottie

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Review — 26 Mar 2019

Little Bird’s Day by Sally Morgan & Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr

The latest book by bestselling Australian Indigenous author Sally Morgan tells the enchanting and tender tale of a day with Little Bird. The day begins in the early morning as…

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Review — 29 Jan 2019

Melody Trumpet by Gabrielle Tozer

‘Melody Trumpet burst into the world with a screech that rattled the windowpanes of Trumpet Manor. It was a perfectly ordinary sound for a newborn baby…’

But Melody is a…

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