Book Gifts For New Mums
As if you have time to read anything when you have a new baby in the house, right? Right?? My idea of ‘spare time’ when my babies were young was catching up on ads for the Ab Cruncher 3000 during 3am...
View ArticleOne Handed Cooks – Cooking For Kids (Review)
One Handed Cooks: How To Raise A Healthy, Happy Eater – From Baby To School Age. Penguin AU RRP: $39.99 Cookbooks in my house are a bit like jars of exotic herbs and spices: I buy them, use them once,...
View ArticleHappily Ever After – Modernised Fairy Tales (To Avoid Death Discussions At...
Happily Ever After series by Alex Field with guest illustrators New Frontier Publishing RRP: $24.99 AUD It’s Children’s Book Week in Australia right now and kids everywhere are celebrating literacy...
View ArticlePicture Books For Father’s Day Gifts
It’s nearly Father’s Day in Australia and families everywhere are out looking for this year’s goody bag of jocks, socks and ties. It’s no surprise that I always advocate popping a picture book in with...
View ArticleHow To Be A Writer by John Birmingham (review)
How To Be A Writer by John Birmingham NewSouth Books RRP:$24.99AUD I’ve never been one for bootcamp-style fitness regimes. When some burly six pack on legs shouts at me to feel the burn it makes me...
View ArticleTop 5 Festive Picture Books 2016
And so this is Christmas… It’s pressie shopping time peeps! Time to get those orders in for gorgeous new release festive picture books in time to fill up stockings. Here’s my Top 5 cream of the crop...
View ArticleTeacher Gifts From Book Geek – Exclusive Discount And Fast Shipping!
Readers Gonna Read Enamel Pin, $12.95 There are 2 kinds of people reading this post: Those who’ve had kids at school for years and have completely run out of teacher gift ideas, and those who are new...
View ArticleAre You A Book Geek? The Christmas Gifts You’ll Want Under The Tree!
According to Wikipedia: “The word geek is a slang term originally used to describe eccentric or non-mainstream people; in current use, the word typically connotes an expert or enthusiast or a person...
View ArticleTravel Under Any Star: A Book Review In Two Parts
I’ve enjoyed Veny Armanno’s writing for so many years that it seems a difficult task to ‘review’ this latest release. I can unpack it through the pragmatic lens of the reviewer, or I can speak from the...
View ArticleAliens, Ghosts And Vanishings – Spooky Tween Non Fiction Fun
Aliens, Ghosts & Vanishings – Strange and Possibly True Australian Stories Stella Tarakson & Richard Morden Random House Au RRP: $27.99 Tween non fiction books can be a bit dry and occasionally...
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