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Clunes Book Festival
For about the last ten years Clunes, a small country town in Victoria, run a book festival over a weekend. I’ve been wanting to go
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Categories Book Reviews
Book Review : The Unknown Unknown
I greatly enjoyed this little booklet by Mark Forsyth. As well as being a good message, I loved his sense of humour. Forsyth brings out an
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Book Review : Touch the Sun
Touch the Sun is the story of a thirteen-year-old boy and his younger sister, who live in Somalia. Their parents are dead, and they live
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Book Review : The Shadow of the Wind
The Shadow of the Wind is a well-written, well-crafted book and I can understand why it has received such acclaim and been so popular. However,
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Book Review : The girl, the dog and the writer in Rome
The girl, the dog and the writer in Rome is a fun story about ten-year-old Freja who has spent all her life with her mother,
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Book Review : The Super Life of Ben Braver
After an altercation with the school bully, Ben Braver is chosen to go to a special boarding school for children with super powers. The trouble
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Book Review : Happy Birthday Moon
Bear wants to buy the Moon a birthday present but first he must find out Moon’s birthday. So begins this wonderful story of a generous
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Book Review : The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.
The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z. is a school based novel by Kate Messner. The main character is Gianna Zales, often called Gee, who loves
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Book Review : The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone
The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone by Jaclyn Moriarty is a well-written, whimsical story about ten-year-old Bronte. She lives with an aunt and her
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Book Review : There’s No Such Thing as a Dragon
There’s no such thing as a dragon by Jack Kent is now quite old, but it is one of my all-time favourites. It’s humorous as