Pilgrim Hodgson

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Blog post — 7 Aug 2019

Book Week costume ideas

‘I just remembered the teacher said we have to wear a costume tomorrow.’

Did your blood pressure just spike reading that? Book Week: love it or hate it, that…

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Review — 26 Mar 2019

The Ultimate Animal Counting Book by Jennifer Cossins

Tasmanian artist Jennifer Cossins’ 101 Collective Nouns caused an international sensation in 2018 when Oscar winner Anne Hathaway told Ellen DeGeneres how much she and her son loved the book…

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Review — 22 Apr 2019

Moonwalkers by Mark Greenwood & Terry Denton

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of humans walking on the moon for the first time (that we know of – who knows where the Atlanteans ended up?) and there…

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Review — 23 Sep 2018

Girl in the Window by Penny Joelson

Kasia is mostly stuck in her room after a case of tonsillitis leaves her with the debilitating condition myalgic encephalomyelitis (chronic fatigue). Too weak to attend school, she watches life…

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Review — 28 May 2018

Kat Wolfe Investigates by Lauren St John

Animal lover Kat Wolfe is delighted when her mum accepts a job as a vet in idyllic Bluebell Bay. Kat decides to earn some pocket money by starting the Paws…

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Review — 26 Mar 2018

The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls by Adam Cece & Andrew Weldon

In Huggabie Falls, something like having a maths teacher who’s also a witch is normal, because Huggabie Falls is the weirdest town on Earth. But then something extremely weird happens…

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Review — 28 Jan 2018

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

Stay away from the Hazel Wood was the warning Alice’s mother Ella left before she vanished.

Bad luck isn’t new to Alice and Ella though, and they’ve spent years on…

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Review — 28 Jan 2018

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

If you knew the date of your death, how would you choose to live the rest of your life? In the late ’60s in New York’s Lower East Side, word…

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