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Welcome to #TheQuickSixInterview with Julie Anne Grasso! It’s an exciting day when another fabulous author comes to visit! Hooray, it’s Julie Anne Grasso to share her delightfully bright and effervescent reading adventure with Hooray, Hooray, It’s Library Day! Who doesn’t love a good book about books?! This one is such a playful journey navigating a […]
#BookReview: The Adamson Adventures Book 4: Tracks in the Mist, Sandra Bennett (author), Rosella Ridge Books, June 2024. Hook: Deep in the wilderness there’s much more to discover than ever anticipated. Review: In an exciting finale, passionate author and researcher, Sandra Bennett takes her Adamson siblings on their fourth adventure; this time in the Southern […]
To celebrate the power of imagination and creativity when it comes to the simple things in life, we’re excited to deliver a special boxed prize to a lucky reader to WIN a SIGNED COPY of the charming, The Postman’s My Mate by Kelly Louise Jarris and Natalie Herington! Let’s get unboxing! 🙂 Here’s how you […]
Welcome to The Art of an Illustrator with Laura Stitzel! We’re delighted to welcome supremely talented author-illustrator, Laura Stitzel, to talk about her illustrative journey working on the gorgeous picture book (written by Deborah Frenkel), 100 School Days. How pertinent that Laura shares her own process about a book that celebrates just that – all […]
As an animal-mad kid, I {Debra Tidball} would have loved the Pet Sitters series of junior fiction books! Each book features a new adventure for friends Cassie and Lina as they pet sit a different animal each book, all with a magical twist. The constant is Gus, the mischievous and imperious cat, who can talk […]
Welcome to #TheQuickSixInterview with Nick Long! What a giant privilege to welcome TV producer and author, Nick Long to our blog to talk about his hilarious new book. It’s the first in a ‘laugh-out-loud per minute’ series, titled, The Forbidden Journal of Rufus Rumble; Worst Space Crew Ever! Written in the ever-so-popular diary format with […]
Welcome to #TheQuickSixInterview with Cassy Polimeni! It’s such a thrill to see the success of talented author (and our 2020 Pitch It! Winner), Cassy Polimeni, with the popularity of her picture book, The Garden at the End of the World, and now a new junior fiction series making a bouncing, resounding entrance – here is […]
Welcome to a #CalmConversation with Prasha Sooful! We’re delighted to welcome back clever and passionate author, audiologist and mum, Prasha Sooful, celebrating her newest amazing book for little ones, Counting to Calm: My First Self-Regulation Book. But first, let’s acknowledge her previous title, My Brain is Magic: A Sensory-Seeking Celebration, which was recently announced Honour […]
Welcome to #TheQuickSixInterview with Elly Both! It’s lovely to welcome author and ADHDer, Elly Both to the blog to share her valuable book, A Kids Book About ADHD. With its bright and bold design and easy to read simplicity, this is a book that will encourage positive, engaging and empowering connections and discussions around the […]
I was fortunate to receive two touching picture books recently, which both, in different yet similar ways, capture visual and emotive beauty in their centring around themes of friendship and overcoming challenges, whether this is as a young girl in a village or as a lonely snail in a scary garden. Both equally stunning and […]
