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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…