Brassed Off in Bendigo
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An audience of perhaps a 100 or so, with ages ranging from seniors to juniors and all in between settled down to a combination of music and local history at the Capital last Saturday afternoon. More »
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Sophie’s Big Bed. (2009) Tina Burke. Puffin Books, 24 pp. 978 0 14 350312 5 $14.95 Pb.
Sophie has a new big bed.
She plans to sleep in it at the beginning of the story, but her toys have their fears.
Will Bunny get lost in the bed? Will Bear fall out? And what does Scarlett think? Each night as a new concern is brought up, Sophie and the toy that has that particular fear choose to sleep in the familiar cot. Will Sophie and her toys ever end up sleeping in the bed?
Read more in the latest issue of Magpies magazine, http://www.magpies.net.au
The Big Dig (2009) Meg McKinlay, Walker Books, 978 1 921529 13 9 $12.95 Pb.
When Nathan (Nath) and his friends, Ronnie and Weasel find that their favourite swimming pool is closed, and the replacement Bayview Leisure Centre doesn’t feel right, they are left in a quandary as to what to do all summer.
Read more in the latest issue of Magpies Magazine.www.magpies.net.au
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