Girl on Wire by Lucy Estela and Elise Hurst
A girl stands before a wire, anxious about walking across the tightrope that is so far above the ground. The wind whips her cheeks and the thunder clouds growl –…
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Tell me a story Rory by Jeanne Willis and Holly Clifton Brown
We love our teddy bears and have spent many hours over the years searching for bears that have hidden themselves in trees, under lounges and inside cars. But as the children…
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Playing card games
What does your bed time routine look like? Is it calm? Full of stories? Games? Laughter? Or is it rushed, scheduled and stressful? Some parent’s tell me that their children…
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Free Diving by Lorrae Coffin and Bronwyn Houston
Do you know much about the history of Australia’s pearling industry? In the late nineteenth century, many of Western Australia’s Indigenous were forced to dive for pearl shell under terrible…
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Escape to everywhere
Have you ever read a book and wished that you could escape to that magical land? Perhaps you wished that your cupboard opened up to a secret land where you…
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Dangar Island. Birds, Barrows, a ferry and me written by Joanne Karcz and illustrated by Jacqui Selby.
Can you imagine living in a place where there are no cars, a cave with hidden secrets and wheelbarrows waiting to be used by weary home comers? Perhaps a visit…
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Python by Christopher Cheng and Mark Jackson
It’s morning in the bush. Python stirs and slithers out from her shelter. She warms her head and smells the air with her forked tongue. Python is a beautiful snake,…
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Children in our world: Poverty and Hunger by Louise Spilsbury and Hanane Kai
How do you talk to your children about poverty? Have you ever wandered through the city and seen a homeless person sleeping on the street? What have you said to…
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Loving all types of literacy
Linking literacy to books is a passion of mine (as you may have guessed) but so is learning to read. The early years of any child’s life and then formal…
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Out of the Blue by Alison Jay
Out of the Blue by Alison Jay is a stunning wordless picture book which draws you into each image, searching for stories within stories. A young boy lives in a…
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Bee and Me by Alison Jay
~ A story about friendship ~ Have you ever read a book without words? Some people may find this difficult as it opens up many possibilities, different interpretations and imagination.…
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Thirst By Lizzie Wilcock
Thirst by Lizzie Wilcock was on the shortlist in the Wilderness Society’s Environment award for children’s literature. I loved reading this book from start to finish. Perhaps I am a little…
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