Title // The Naming of Tishkin Silk Author // Glenda MillardPublication Date // 2003Publisher // ABC BooksGenre // Junior Fiction, AustralianRating // ✭✭✭✭✭synopsis.Griffin Silk is an uncommon sort of boy, from an uncommon sort of family. The warm, loving home he shares with his father, grandmother and five big sisters (The Rainbow Girls) is marked by the …
Book Review | The Bone Sparrow
Title // The Bone SparrowAuthor // Zana Fraillon Publication Date // 2016Publisher // Lothian Children’s BookGenre // Young AdultRating // ✭✭✭✭⭐︎synopsis.Sometimes, at night, the dirt outside turns into a beautiful ocean. As red as the sun and as deep as the sky. I lie in my bed, Queeny's feet pushing up against my cheek, and listen to …
Book Review | Mechanica
Title // Mechanica: a Beginner’s Field GuideAuthor // Lance BalchinPublication Date // August 2016Publisher // The Five Mile PressGenre // Picturebook, Steampunk, CBCA ShortlistRating // ✭✭✭✭✭synopsis.An imaginative field guide to the fantasy world of Mechanica creatures, with amazing and beautiful steampunk-inspired illustrations.In this field guide from the future, a dashing explorer-Miss Liberty Crisp-details amazing creatures known …
