children’s book

Book Review – Surprise!

May 15, 2009

My five year old daughter received this book from Santa last year. Santa was even clever enough to have it signed by the wonderful author Karen Andrews (Miscmum)! I first heard this story when Karen read it at the Melbourne Writer’s Festival. I was impressed by the warmth of the story and the inspiration it [...]

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Children’s Book Council Awards

August 20, 2008

The winners of the Children’s Book Council Awards were announced on Friday. My older two children read with anticipation the winners in Saturday’s morning’s paper. Like most Australian school children they had voted from the short list for their favourite books at school and were keen to see what the judges had selected. Thinker had [...]

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10 Favourite Children’s Books – Little Rascal’s Choice

August 12, 2008

During August we celebrate Children’s Book Week here in Australia. As I noted last week, each Tuesday in August I will be posting lists of favourite children’s books, as selected by my children. Last week Thinker gave us his 10 Favourite Children’s Books and today’s selection is by Little Rascal. He is 7 years old, [...]