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ONCE UPON A SMALL RHINOCEROS (book review)

Once there was a small rhinoceros who lived with her family on the river bank. She wanted to see further than her home. So she decided to build a boat to sail away and see the world.

Book reviews for Magpies magazine

Happy New Year to you all! First day of the new year and I am privileged to have written a book review for a new children’s book that is set in Australian and it is one that warms the soul. Perhaps my one new years resolution should be to really try to write and getContinue reading “Book reviews for Magpies magazine”

Children’s book review, ‘A Bus called Heaven’ by Bob Graham.

‘A Bus called heaven’ by Bob Graham, Walker books 2011, ISBN:978 1 4063 3419 7, RRP $27.95 Hb.. With current discussions going on in literary (and otherinterested) circles about whether the electronic readers will eventually leadto the demise of books, it is a welcome relief that this latest book from wellknown children’s author/illustrator Graham provesContinue reading “Children’s book review, ‘A Bus called Heaven’ by Bob Graham.”

Vampyre by Margaret Wild, illustrated by Andrew Yeo. Book Review.

Vampyre by Margaret Wild, illustrated by Andrew Yeo $29.95 ISBN  9781921529221 Hardback, 32 pages Age: 8+ Category: Picture Book Below is the information received from Walker Books about the latest story from well known author Margaret Wild. “I am Vampyre. Feared. Despised. I sleep in darkness. I long for light. From the dark depths ofContinue reading “Vampyre by Margaret Wild, illustrated by Andrew Yeo. Book Review.”