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‘Your family is okay’: Bernadette Green on ‘Who’s Your Real Mum?’

Who’s Your Real Mum? (Scribble, illus by Anna Zobel) is the debut picture book from Bernadette Green, inspired by the real-life questions her own children... Read more
 
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Taking Down Evelyn Tait
Poppy Nwosu, Wakefield, April 2020, reviewed by Annie Waters x

Lottie is 16 and loves black metal, collecting curious words and making trouble, so her transformation into a goody two-shoes surprises herself as much as... Read more
 

Picture books

 

Anisa's Alphabet
Mike Dumbleton, illus by Hannah Sommerville, MidnightSun, March 2020, reviewed by Katie Haydon x

 
 

Backyard Birds
Helen Milroy, Fremantle Press, April 2020, reviewed by Margaret Hamilton x

 
 

Beautiful Eggs
Alice Lindstrom, Scribble, March 2020, reviewed by Jacqui Davies x

 
 

Duck, Apple, Egg
Glenda Millard, illus by Martina Heiduczek, ABC Books, March 2020, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg x

 
 

Goodnight Glow Worms
Aura Parker, Puffin, April 2020, reviewed by Margaret Hamilton x

 
 

Mum’s Elephant
Maureen Jipiyiliya Nampijinpa O’Keefe, illus by Christina Booth, Magabala, April 2020, reviewed by Bronte Coates x

 
 

Who’s Your Real Mum?
Bernadette Green, illus by Anna Zobel, Scribble, April 2020, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg x

 

Younger readers

 

The January Stars
Kate Constable, A&U, April 2020, reviewed by Karys McEwen x

 
 

Landing with Wings
Trace Balla, A&U, April 2020, reviewed by Phil Lesnie x

 
 

The Republic of Birds
Jessica Miller, Text, March 2020, reviewed by Emily Smith x

 
 

Shoestring, the Boy Who Walks on Air
Julie Hunt, illus by Dale Newman, A&U, June 2020, reviewed by M H Alessandrino x

 

Young adult

 

Deep Water
Sarah Epstein, A&U, April 2020, reviewed by Karys McEwen x

 
 

How to Grow a Family Tree
Eliza Henry Jones, HarperCollins, April 2020, reviewed by Bec Kavanagh x

 
 

The Vanishing Deep
Astrid Scholte, A&U, March 2020, reviewed by Stefen Brazulaitis x

 

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