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Text Publishing, April 2026, 224 pp., $16.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781923058958
Hafsa lives in a small Pakistani village where her father sells fruit and vegetables, and where expectations and opportunities for girls are limited. She rides her bike around town, dreams of becoming a doctor and has her own ideas about what her life should look like. When Hafs...
Fremantle Press, March 2026, 120 pp., $26.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781760994396
Lighthouse Girl, written by Dianne Wolfer and illustrated by Brian Simmonds, is a beautiful and moving story that captures the essence of World War 1 through the eyes of an ordinary girl living in an isolated corner of Australia...
Walker Books Australia, April 2025, 96 pp., $15.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781760658564
I was lucky enough to have a buddy to read this book with; my 12 year-old-son and I read it over two nights as our bedtime story. He chose it from the six 2026 shortlisted titles for CBCA Younger Reader Book of the Year books...
Scholastic Press, June 2026, 32 pp., $19.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781761643545
Our young narrator really wants another pet. The bright, digital illustrations show that the house is already bursting with animal life. As the little boy suggests more and more preposterous animals (a zebra, a baboon, an elephant) his mother hi...