Kids' Book Review
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Kids Book Review is a voluntary children's literature and book review which works with authors, illustrators and publishers Australia-wide and internationally. We cover news, reviews, interviews, articles, guest posts, events, specialist literacy articles and much more, attracting readers from all over the world including teachers, librarians, industry professionals and parents and kids.
Kids' Book Review
1h ago
An alphabet book with a difference, Alphabetter is here to teach you more than just your letters.
It’s a book to inspire and support you, providing 26 ways to be the best you.
Like being friendly (the word for the letter F), which the book goes on to describe as sharing and being kind, like when you team up with someone new in class.
The beautiful descriptions are relatable and real for kids, and there’s one for every letter and word.
Under each of the featured words are a couple of alternative words, to help kids understand what they mean. Brave is also called being courageous and ..read more
Kids' Book Review
1d ago
We’ve grouped together some of the many book lists we’ve shared over recent years, in case you missed them the first time around.
We hope they inspire you to pick up a book you’ve not read before, or find a book to help explore and better understand a particular subject with readers of all ages.
Peace and war feature in many books, from picture books for preschoolers and older readers to YA fiction.
Over the years we've shared more book lists on this topic than any other. While non-fiction can teach us about historical events and people who have had an impact on the world, fiction giv ..read more
Kids' Book Review
2d ago
The thing about children is that unless they are Peter Pan, they grow up. Unfortunate for us if one of them happens to be a Junior Reviewer.
Fortunately, there are still plenty of kids who love reading and love sharing their thoughts about a great read with others. Ellissa Freestone is one of them.
Elle read and wrote stories from a very young age. Creative writing has always come easily to her with a poetic writing style that often invokes intrigue. Novels are binge read between her other passions of drawing, basketball, and singing, both privately and choral. Ell ..read more
Kids' Book Review
3d ago
I am an everyday Mum with a passion for books but I’m also a Mum with a passion for advocating for books to read to children about current issues, acceptance, and inclusion.
So, in saying that, I decided to write a book that I had struggled to find in libraries and on shelves in bookstores.
I wanted to be able to read a book to my daughter that addressed the many questions she had about transgender and non-binary identities amongst her peers and because we often talked about pronouns and how important respecting them is, due to my profession.
Being Me started as an idea when thinking about ..read more
Kids' Book Review
3d ago
Combine two of Australia’s most accomplished authors with one of Australia’s most well-known periods of history, slew in the complex dynamics of friendship, loyalty and family fidelity, flavour with the breathtaking drama of life on horseback and you’ve got the latest time slip novel by Emily Gale and Nova Weetman.
That’s right, time slip. In the same vein as their popular co-authored middle grade fiction, Elsewhere Girls, Gale and Weetman take readers on a heady journey into Victoria’s High Country where they oscillate between 2024 and 1878 and two renegade girls, Ruby and Kate.
Ruby is head ..read more
Kids' Book Review
6d ago
The Great Australian Science Book, another great title from the CSIRO, is about science big and small.
It's a journey through the human body, planet earth, and the universe, along with the concepts that are an important part of them working.
What makes up the universe? Discover what the big bang and dark matter are, and what makes up a galaxy and a solar system. Delve into earth's geology, evolution, animals, plants and habitats. And climate change.
Explore our bodies by looking at genes and cells, and the different systems that keep us alive.
Skeletons and muscles, the brain, immune sy ..read more
Kids' Book Review
1w ago
Name: Imogen Hartland
Describe your illustration style in ten words or less. Bold, bright, and playful cobblings of colour!
What items are an essential part of your creative space? Scissors and glue! Also, good quality paper.
Do you have a favourite artistic medium? It’d be a tussle between printmaking and collage...
Name three artists whose work inspires you. I could talk about picture book art till the cows come home…but a three-artist intro might include: Chris McKimmie (his work is so unique, so interesting, so colourful!), Beatrice Alemagna (I find her art mesmerising; the details, t ..read more
Kids' Book Review
1w ago
I find bushrangers captivating and Captain Thunderbolt is no different.
Known as the ‘gentleman bushranger’, it is believed that Captain Thunderbolt never shot anyone. In Captain Thunderbolt’s Recital, Jane Jolly has captured a more playful side of Australian bushranging history.
In the 1860s, Captain Thunderbolt ambushed Wirth’s German Brass Band, taking their money and asking them to play a song.
Captain Thunderbolt even conducted with his revolver.
‘Ernst fumbled with his bassoon.
His fingers shook as he lifted it
and began to play.
Brrroo! Brrroo! Brrroo! Brrroo!’
F ..read more
Kids' Book Review
1w ago
Mish and Connie are cousins. Connie and Bella are close friends, and all are in Year Seven at the same school.
It is just after lockdown. Bella receives a text meant for Connie from Mish, which starts a series of situations that have no happy ending.
Mish is an enigma. She hides too much and says too little. She cares for nothing and nobody except for a horse at the Pony Club where she works infrequently.
Her rule is that she doesn’t talk to adults. Her movements are tracked via her phone, by her overbearing father, a returned war veteran.
She is manipulative and uses her crafty ways to m ..read more
Kids' Book Review
1w ago
From award-winning author Hayley Lawrence, this coming-of-age story speaks in a strong, vulnerable voice to teenage readers. It’s a powerful narrative that will evoke compassion and empathy in young minds.
Fifteeen-year-old Elliot has always known that she’s one of the ‘lucky’ Gillespe family who have lived by Crooked River for generations. So when her parents deliver ‘unlucky’ and life-altering news, the world as she knows it slips on its axis.
Nothing will ever be the same again. And as her life is turned upside down, it seems that Elliot might lose all the important people and pla ..read more