by Catherine Blanch | Sep 27, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Lachlan Creagh (Hachette/Lothian) 2014, RRP $14.99 It’s summertime and Wombat and his friends have gone to the beach for a holiday. Croc’s water-wise cousin, Salty, is teaching surfing to everyone – Emu, Koala, Goanna and Croc – and each of them is a natural. But...
by Catherine Blanch | Sep 10, 2014 | Books, Children's Books, Reviews
Felicity Gardner (Lothian/Hachette) 2014, 25pp, RRP $14.99 For some reason, not one that he can think of, Little Max the gorilla wakes up feeling really grumpy. He doesn’t want his favourite breakfast cereal, his friends’ games are just silly to him, and flying games...
by Lynette Washington | Aug 29, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Virginia Macgregor (Sphere) 2014, 388pp, RRP $29.99 Milo is a 9-year old boy with Retinitis Pigmentosa. His vision is gradually failing; he can only see through a diminishing pinhole and one day he will be blind. Milo’s whole world disintegrates when he catches his...
by Dave Bradley | Jul 21, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Rebecca Front (Hachette), 256pp, $29.99 You’d think that an autobiographical work from Front, best-known for her role in UK TV’s The Thick Of It, would be all about her considerable success, but this is instead a surprisingly honest and entertaining (!!!) memoir of...
