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Respect
Aunty Fay Muir & Sue Lawson, illus by Lisa Kennedy, Magabala, May 2020, reviewed by Hannah Gardiner

Dream team Aunty Fay Muir and Sue Lawson, who previously brought us the excellent Nganga: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander words and phrases, have collaborated... Read more
 
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Interview

 

Feeling seen: Kay Kerr on ‘Please Don't Hug Me’

Kay Kerr’s YA novel Please Don’t Hug Me (Text, May) follows 17-year-old Erin as she relays life as a teenager with autism in letters to... Read more
 

Picture books

 

Rocky and Louie
Phil Walleystack, Raewyn Caisley & Dub Leffler, Puffin, May 2020, reviewed by Thuy On x

 
 

Sometimes Cake
Edwina Wyatt, illus by Tamsin Ainslie, Walker, May 2020, reviewed by Thuy On x

 
 

Tiger & Cat
Allira Tee, Berbay, July 2020, reviewed by Bronte Coates x

 

Younger readers

 

The Year the Maps Changed
Danielle Binks, Lothian, May 2020, reviewed by Jacqui Davies

 

Young adult

 

Peta Lyre’s Rating Normal
Anna Whateley, A&U, May 2020, reviewed by Erin Wamala x

 
 

Please Don’t Hug Me
Kay Kerr, Text, May 2020, reviewed by Charlotte Guest

 
 

When it Drops
Alex Dyson, Hardie Grant Egmont, May 2020, reviewed by Hannah Gardiner x

 

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