.12 Katrina Goonack, Marlene Goonack, and Myron Goonack, Scaly-Tailed Possum and Echidna, 2010 ( Read more... )

Sally Morgan, The Last Dance, 2012

As with most picture books by Sally Morgan, this one has colourful art and challenging text. It’s a bit grim, though, as the book catalogues a whole lot of endangered native fauna, all doing their last dance. Alas.

How I Go to School, Sharon Galleguillos, Perri-Ann Kelly, 2002 ( Read more... )

This picture book has the colourful, contemporary illustrations that Kwaymullina specialises in. My kids especially liked finding the ‘hidden’ objects on each page - one traditional implement and one non-native animal.

The text, however, does feel a bit phoned in. Even in a counting book, I had expected more from Sally Morgan.

3.06 Rhoda Lalara, Yirruwa Yirrilikenuma-langwa, When We Go Walkabout, 2014 ( Read more... )

I was going to post everything I've read since my last post but apparently that was in 2011?? So here's some highlights :) You can find all my reviews at my books tagCourtney Milan ( Read more... )

My daughters are now three and nearly six and they enjoyed this. It’s a picture book with a fair degree of prose on each page, enough to tell the story of Susie who has to discover her dream of becoming an artist ( Read more... )

Born with a Tooth is Joseph Boyden's first published book, a short story collection divided into compass directions (North, South, East, West) which inform the reader which part of Ontario the stories are set in.

Boyden's has two other works to his name, the loosely interlinked Three Day Road and Through Black Spruce, both of which earned ( Read more... )

Kim Scott, Iris Woods and the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project, Mamang (2011 ( Read more... )

This is another Magabala children's book, the first my nearly four year old identified as 'having brown skin ( Read more... )