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23 August 2024

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Cover of The Land of Lost Things

 

'The Land of Lost Things' debuts at number three x

Top 10 bestsellers It Ends with Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S)* It Starts with Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S) The Land of Lost Things (Adventures Unlimited) (Andy Griffiths, illus by Bill Hope,... Read more
 
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Books in the media

 

Books in the media this weekend, 24–25 August x

A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Bina: First Nations Languages, Old and New (Gari Tudor-Smith, Paul Williams &... Read more
 
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Unlocked reviews: New-release younger readers

 

Adventures Unlimited: The Land of Lost Things
Andy Griffiths, illus Bill Hope, Pan Australia, August 2024, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg x

Adventures Unlimited is the latest series from middle-fiction superstar Andy Griffiths, with the first instalment, The Land of Lost Things, full of the wacky, exuberant, imaginative shenanigans fans have come... Read more

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Dragonfire: 18,000 Holes in the Universe
Adam Wallace & Lisa Foley, illus James Hart, HarperCollins, August 2024, reviewed by Emma Pei Yin  x

Tee off into the surreal world of Dragonfire: 18,000 Holes in the Universe, the first book in a new graphic novel series by Adam Wallace and Lisa Foley, with imaginative... Read more

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Hester Hitchins and the Falling Stars
Catherine Norton, HarperCollins, August 2024, reviewed by Fay Helfenbaum x

The year is 1866, and 11-year-old Hester’s life looks like something out of A Series of Unfortunate Events: her father is lost at sea, her mother dies giving birth to... Read more

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Hi from Outer Space
Fiona Katauskas, A&U Children's, August 2024, reviewed by Charlotte Callander x

Cartoonist and illustrator Fiona Katauskas’s debut middle-grade novel, Hi from Outer Space, is a wonderfully wacky sci-fi/comedy that will appeal to readers of Nat Amoore, Morris Gleitzman and Eve L... Read more

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How to Break a World Record and Survive Grade Five
Carla Fitzgerald, UQP, August 2024, reviewed by Karys McEwen x

How to Break a World Record and Survive Grade Five is the new novel from Carla Fitzgerald, author of the popular middle-grade title How to Be Prime Minister and Survive... Read more

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Oscar vs the Grand Old Dude Named York
Ross Curnow, Walker, August 2024, reviewed by Brenton Cullen  x

A fresh and hilarious new voice in children’s literature springs forth from the page with delightful force in Oscar vs the Grand Old Dude Named York by debut novelist Ross... Read more

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Yarn Quest 1: The Search for the Story Realm
Brooke Scobie, illus Jade Goodwin, Penguin, August 2024, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg  x

Brooke Scobie’s debut series, Yarn Quest, begins with The Search for the Story Realm (with the next two books in the series releasing concurrently) and introduces friends Sibyl and Tane... Read more

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