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A Long Time Coming by Melanie Joosten
Joosten smashes through our over-sentimentalised ways of talking about old age.
Maria Tumarkin
Thoughtful and honest, this book is a reminder to cherish our elders.
Dr Ranjana Siristava, Author of Tell Me the Truth
[A] fine collection … shows deep commitment and quite profound levels of insight and compassion.
Weekend Australian
Heartening … [Joosten has] a novelist's feel for the texture of life.
Fiona Capp, Sydney Morning Herald
[V]ivid and surprising ... This eloquent collection advocates for the elderly.
Sydney Review of Books
A powerful collection of essays exploring what it means to grow old.
Australian Ageing Agenda
Well written, brimming with empathy ... a thoughtful work by a writer whose social work commitment arose from “a feeling of obligation towards those who do not have the opportunities I have had” ... This book pulls no punches, making it another valuable contribution to the debate we need to have.
GP Speak
Joosten makes a plea for heightened empathy towards older people, but she goes on to make it clear that empathy without action — without changed perceptions, changed behaviour — is insufficient. As such, A Long Time Coming is a challenging as well as eminently readable book.
Patrick Allington, Australian Book Review
[E]motionally wrenching, undeniably powerful piece ... A Long Time Coming is a work that deserves high praise for the persuasive way in which Joosten crafts her arguments toward greater understanding and compassion for older Australians. It’s an exceptional piece of writing, one that will provoke discussion, challenge opinions and, hopefully, inspire change.
Right Now
Maria Tumarkin
Thoughtful and honest, this book is a reminder to cherish our elders.
Dr Ranjana Siristava, Author of Tell Me the Truth
[A] fine collection … shows deep commitment and quite profound levels of insight and compassion.
Weekend Australian
Heartening … [Joosten has] a novelist's feel for the texture of life.
Fiona Capp, Sydney Morning Herald
[V]ivid and surprising ... This eloquent collection advocates for the elderly.
Sydney Review of Books
A powerful collection of essays exploring what it means to grow old.
Australian Ageing Agenda
Well written, brimming with empathy ... a thoughtful work by a writer whose social work commitment arose from “a feeling of obligation towards those who do not have the opportunities I have had” ... This book pulls no punches, making it another valuable contribution to the debate we need to have.
GP Speak
Joosten makes a plea for heightened empathy towards older people, but she goes on to make it clear that empathy without action — without changed perceptions, changed behaviour — is insufficient. As such, A Long Time Coming is a challenging as well as eminently readable book.
Patrick Allington, Australian Book Review
[E]motionally wrenching, undeniably powerful piece ... A Long Time Coming is a work that deserves high praise for the persuasive way in which Joosten crafts her arguments toward greater understanding and compassion for older Australians. It’s an exceptional piece of writing, one that will provoke discussion, challenge opinions and, hopefully, inspire change.
Right Now
Ironbark by Jay Carmichael
Jay Carmichael's Ironbark does the extraordinary. It achieves what we readers want from the best of fiction: to tell a story anew, and to capture a world in all its wonder, ugliness, tenderness, and cruelty. This is a novel of coming of age and of grief that astonishes us by its wisdom and by its compassion. It's a work of great and simple beauty, so good it made me jealous. And grateful.
Christos Tsiolkas
Jay Carmichael approaches the world as a poet, from an angle that is all his own. He reveals a hidden, pulsing reality beneath the surface of the everyday.
Miles Allinson, Author of Fever of Animals
In sparse and quiet prose, Jay Carmichael's debut is an enveloping novel about grief, survival, and the futility of finding peace in a place you don't belong.
Shaun Prescott, Author of The Town
[An] accomplished debut … Carmichael has a poetic turn of phrase, and he plays with time, moving the story back and forth … keeping readers on their toes.
Books+Publishing
What Ironbark captures beautifully is the yearning one might feel while growing up unable to understand or express love and attraction freely; a yearning to kiss your best friend, a longing for an end to a loneliness, like cracked land waiting for rain. Ironbark is a still, quiet, compelling novel that reaches an ending both sad and peaceful.
Good Reading
The novel draws deeply on the love of nature that once inspired Carmichael to pursue botanical science … It is almost poetic in its descriptions of a slightly surreal landscape overcome by an oncoming storm that seems to mirror Markus’ silent struggles.
sbs.com.au
[A] subtle, impressionistic novel about adolescent alienation and masculinity in rural Australia … Carmichael paints an exquisitely tender portrait of doomed adolescent longing and love.
The Monthly
Christos Tsiolkas
Jay Carmichael approaches the world as a poet, from an angle that is all his own. He reveals a hidden, pulsing reality beneath the surface of the everyday.
Miles Allinson, Author of Fever of Animals
In sparse and quiet prose, Jay Carmichael's debut is an enveloping novel about grief, survival, and the futility of finding peace in a place you don't belong.
Shaun Prescott, Author of The Town
[An] accomplished debut … Carmichael has a poetic turn of phrase, and he plays with time, moving the story back and forth … keeping readers on their toes.
Books+Publishing
What Ironbark captures beautifully is the yearning one might feel while growing up unable to understand or express love and attraction freely; a yearning to kiss your best friend, a longing for an end to a loneliness, like cracked land waiting for rain. Ironbark is a still, quiet, compelling novel that reaches an ending both sad and peaceful.
Good Reading
The novel draws deeply on the love of nature that once inspired Carmichael to pursue botanical science … It is almost poetic in its descriptions of a slightly surreal landscape overcome by an oncoming storm that seems to mirror Markus’ silent struggles.
sbs.com.au
[A] subtle, impressionistic novel about adolescent alienation and masculinity in rural Australia … Carmichael paints an exquisitely tender portrait of doomed adolescent longing and love.
The Monthly
My Brilliant Career: Malcolm Turnbull: a political life, in cartoons by Russ Radcliffe
With incredible economy, these cartoons reveal the essence of character, and the stark outline of political situations, in a way writers take thousands of words to do … Radcliffe lards My Brilliant Career with wonderful direct quotes from key political players.
Chris Wallace, Sydney Morning Herald
Chris Wallace, Sydney Morning Herald
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
Jennifer Ackerman’s book is ... very important. Her engaging survey of recent findings about bird acumen delivers so many surprises it ends up a revelation.
Tim Low, Author of Where Song Began
I love birds; always have. The only thing better than love is love plus deep appreciation. The Genius of Birds is a journey of deep appreciation for the beautiful geniuses all around us, in our gardens, sharing our air, and sharing more of our minds than we might have expected.
Carl Safina, Author of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
Delightful, revolutionary, and illuminated by the clean, curious gaze of an intelligent seeker, The Genius of Birds is fueled by awe and always, its close cousin, deep respect for the condition of life. It’s a book that demands a moral consideration of the world.
Rick Bass, Author of The Ninemile Wolves and For a Little While
[A] gloriously provocative and highly entertaining book. Jennifer Ackerman provides a masterly survey of research in the last two decades that has produced a revolution in our understanding of bird cognition. The Genius of Birds [is] important not only for what it says about birds, but also about the human ingenuity entailed in unraveling the mysteries of the avian brain. It is at once a book of knowledge but also a work of wonder and an affirmation of the astonishing complexity of our world.
Wall Street Journal
Ackerman writes with a light but assured touch, her prose rich in fact but economical in delivering it. Fans of birds in all their diversity will want to read this one.
Kirkus Reviews
A lyrical testimony to the wonders of avian intelligence.
Scientific American
Ackerman offers plenty of interesting tidbits and backs them up with the relevant history or science, using footnotes to avoid cluttering the text with anything that might slow a reader down. This is one of those terrific books that makes a scientific topic fun without dumbing it down.
Washington Independent Review of Books
As fun as it is revelatory … Time and again, one is struck by these creatures’ ability to think, learn and communicate.
William Yeoman, The Weekend West
Wide-ranging and engrossing … makes it clear that crows — and birds generally — have a lot more going on upstairs than we ever knew.
Andrew Fuhrmann, Weekend Australian
Engaging, and full of wonder at the often unsuspected mental feats birds are capable of.
Weekend Herald
The Genius of Birds offers an often awe inspiring tour … made the more affecting by the elegance and beauty of [Ackerman's] language … a fascinating book.
James Bradley, Sydney Morning Herald
Lovely, celebratory. For all the belittling of ‘bird brains,’ [Ackerman] shows them to be uniquely impressive machines …
New York Times Book Review
Tim Low, Author of Where Song Began
I love birds; always have. The only thing better than love is love plus deep appreciation. The Genius of Birds is a journey of deep appreciation for the beautiful geniuses all around us, in our gardens, sharing our air, and sharing more of our minds than we might have expected.
Carl Safina, Author of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
Delightful, revolutionary, and illuminated by the clean, curious gaze of an intelligent seeker, The Genius of Birds is fueled by awe and always, its close cousin, deep respect for the condition of life. It’s a book that demands a moral consideration of the world.
Rick Bass, Author of The Ninemile Wolves and For a Little While
[A] gloriously provocative and highly entertaining book. Jennifer Ackerman provides a masterly survey of research in the last two decades that has produced a revolution in our understanding of bird cognition. The Genius of Birds [is] important not only for what it says about birds, but also about the human ingenuity entailed in unraveling the mysteries of the avian brain. It is at once a book of knowledge but also a work of wonder and an affirmation of the astonishing complexity of our world.
Wall Street Journal
Ackerman writes with a light but assured touch, her prose rich in fact but economical in delivering it. Fans of birds in all their diversity will want to read this one.
Kirkus Reviews
A lyrical testimony to the wonders of avian intelligence.
Scientific American
Ackerman offers plenty of interesting tidbits and backs them up with the relevant history or science, using footnotes to avoid cluttering the text with anything that might slow a reader down. This is one of those terrific books that makes a scientific topic fun without dumbing it down.
Washington Independent Review of Books
As fun as it is revelatory … Time and again, one is struck by these creatures’ ability to think, learn and communicate.
William Yeoman, The Weekend West
Wide-ranging and engrossing … makes it clear that crows — and birds generally — have a lot more going on upstairs than we ever knew.
Andrew Fuhrmann, Weekend Australian
Engaging, and full of wonder at the often unsuspected mental feats birds are capable of.
Weekend Herald
The Genius of Birds offers an often awe inspiring tour … made the more affecting by the elegance and beauty of [Ackerman's] language … a fascinating book.
James Bradley, Sydney Morning Herald
Lovely, celebratory. For all the belittling of ‘bird brains,’ [Ackerman] shows them to be uniquely impressive machines …
New York Times Book Review
The Sacred Combe by Thomas Maloney
An ingenious and atmospheric first novel, inspired by the discovery of a mysterious library lost deep in the English countryside, and vibrating with the literary and musical echoes of late Romanticism, and lots of weather.
Richard Holmes, Author of Coleridge and The Age of Wonder
An exceptional first novel – intelligent, intriguing, wonderfully written, and rich with an atmosphere and sense of place that make it a joy to read.
James Wilson, Author of The Summer of Broken Stories
A very unusual book, at once a trickster tale and a commentary on the canonical texts of Romanticism.
Joanne Limburg, Author of A Want of Kindness
An atmospheric novel sprinkled with literary and musical allusion.
Cameron Woodhead, Sydney Morning Herald
Beautiful … An intriguing gothic mystery.
Fanny Blake, Daily Mail
A literary hall of mirrors with echoes and ripples running through it.
The Tablet
The Sacred Combe gets top marks for its dreamlike, timeless atmosphere and it leaves a note of ambiguity hanging in its wake.
Sunday Herald
A bibliophile’s delight, a mystery, a tease, a frisson of dread, a fugue, a literary detective story, a philosophical fable — its imagination exquisitely calibrated to a gentle Gothicism where Bach, Coleridge, Thomas Chatterton and Edgar Allan Poe flit among the shades. Thomas Maloney’s perfectly judged story, with its vital and resonant sense of place, will surely become one of the beloved arcana of English fiction.
Jim Perrin, Author of West: A Journey Through the Landscapes of Loss
Richard Holmes, Author of Coleridge and The Age of Wonder
An exceptional first novel – intelligent, intriguing, wonderfully written, and rich with an atmosphere and sense of place that make it a joy to read.
James Wilson, Author of The Summer of Broken Stories
A very unusual book, at once a trickster tale and a commentary on the canonical texts of Romanticism.
Joanne Limburg, Author of A Want of Kindness
An atmospheric novel sprinkled with literary and musical allusion.
Cameron Woodhead, Sydney Morning Herald
Beautiful … An intriguing gothic mystery.
Fanny Blake, Daily Mail
A literary hall of mirrors with echoes and ripples running through it.
The Tablet
The Sacred Combe gets top marks for its dreamlike, timeless atmosphere and it leaves a note of ambiguity hanging in its wake.
Sunday Herald
A bibliophile’s delight, a mystery, a tease, a frisson of dread, a fugue, a literary detective story, a philosophical fable — its imagination exquisitely calibrated to a gentle Gothicism where Bach, Coleridge, Thomas Chatterton and Edgar Allan Poe flit among the shades. Thomas Maloney’s perfectly judged story, with its vital and resonant sense of place, will surely become one of the beloved arcana of English fiction.
Jim Perrin, Author of West: A Journey Through the Landscapes of Loss
Digital vs Human: how we'll live, love, and think in the future by Richard Watson
Richard Watson doesn’t write like your average futurist. He’s interested in people, not machines, and so his analysis of the way our world is changing has a very human and accessible quality. Most futurists seek to sell you a vision of the future, but Richard’s there to help show you the way.
Antony Funnell, Presenter of Future Tense
With Digital vs Human Richard Watson has put himself at the vanguard of a new movement of progressive thinkers. This is a fascinating book — at once enthusiastic about the opportunities of the future and sceptical of the blind faith which fails to ask an all important question: where, exactly, are the lights of progress leading us?
Luke O’Sullivan, Editor of Quadrapheme
A remarkable and important book, which examines our possible futures with great humanity and a clear eye. This is a book that everyone should read.
Lavie Tidhar, Author of A Man Lies Dreaming
Truly persuasive.
Professor Susan Greenfield, Author of Mind Change
Incisive … the ideas he assembles are tantalising.
Jules Goddard, Fellow, London Business School
A well-argued salvo in a social dialogue that needs to be constant, because the future is already here.
Drew Turney, Cosmos
A highly readable, witty and wise book, richly informative, sharply critical but balanced, an excellent investigation of the achievements and predictions of digital technology.
Theodore Zeldin, Author of The Hidden Pleasures of Life
Antony Funnell, Presenter of Future Tense
With Digital vs Human Richard Watson has put himself at the vanguard of a new movement of progressive thinkers. This is a fascinating book — at once enthusiastic about the opportunities of the future and sceptical of the blind faith which fails to ask an all important question: where, exactly, are the lights of progress leading us?
Luke O’Sullivan, Editor of Quadrapheme
A remarkable and important book, which examines our possible futures with great humanity and a clear eye. This is a book that everyone should read.
Lavie Tidhar, Author of A Man Lies Dreaming
Truly persuasive.
Professor Susan Greenfield, Author of Mind Change
Incisive … the ideas he assembles are tantalising.
Jules Goddard, Fellow, London Business School
A well-argued salvo in a social dialogue that needs to be constant, because the future is already here.
Drew Turney, Cosmos
A highly readable, witty and wise book, richly informative, sharply critical but balanced, an excellent investigation of the achievements and predictions of digital technology.
Theodore Zeldin, Author of The Hidden Pleasures of Life
Dark Fires Shall Burn by Anna Westbrook
A powerful and compelling story, Dark Fires Shall Burn balances survival and salvation against the accommodations and betrayals of a shifting post-war world. With a voice that’s as imperative as it’s alive, Anna Westbrook conjures her 1940s Sydney with a visceral sensuality and a poet’s eye. A seductive tale that will draw you in and on, Dark Fires Shall Burn bristles with necessity and heartbreak.
Ashley Hay, Author of The Railwayman’s Wife
Sydney in the late 1940s, a real unsolved murder, and a delightful cast of colourful characters – Anna Westbrook has plucked this story of hardship, murder, and friendship from history and given it glorious new life. The plot throbs with unsettling dark notes, and above this, Westbrook’s sentences soar with a musical grace. All together the elements add up to a virtuosic debut that deserves a standing ovation.
Krissy Kneen
Anna Westbrook wields the pen so assuredly that it’s hard to believe this is her debut novel.
The Big Issue
Vividly brings to life the wretchedness of postwar Sydney ... Westbrook's rendering of the period has an air of authenticity I have rarely found in contemporary novels, thanks in part to her shrewd use of recognisably Aussie vernacular. But what I loved most was how convincingly Westbrook depicts the precarious nature of women's lives and livelihoods, and their desperate fight for some level of control – often at great personal cost.
Good Reading
Anna Westbrook delves into Sydney’s seedy underbelly for this story, based on a real crime, set in 1946 … Westbrook has created an atmospheric tale of post-war life, full of sly grog, war-damaged soldiers and prostitutes … Verdict: dark and gripping.
Herald Sun
Dark, tender and gripping; this book sent my heart racing.
Mette Jakobsen, Author of The Vanishing Act
With her marvellously suggestive title, Anna Westbrook takes us to a dramatic era in recent Australian history. The time is 1946 and the place is Sydney’s Newtown, where a critical housing shortage, impoverishment, post-war trauma and lawlessness have created a ferment of chaos and danger … Dark Fires Shall Burn reminds us just how close the past is to our present.
Sydney Morning Herald
A richly textured, entertaining caper ... convincing.
The Saturday Paper
It’s hard to believe this is a debut novel.
The West Weekend
Compelling ... wonderful contrasts of light and dark ... These make the crime when it occurs even more poignant, and the reactions heartbreaking. This is fiction that draws a strong line between the battle to survive and the actions of a man with an entitlement complex that is breathtaking in its savagery.
Newton Review of Books
Based on the true events of a local, unsolved murder, Dark Fires Shall Burn is an atmospheric literary crime novel ... a terrific read to be enjoyed by crime, literary and history buffs alike.
Better Read Than Dead
Anna Westbrook delves into Sydney’s seedy underbelly ... Templeton, in particular, is heartbreaking ... Despite the lurid subject matter, which made it a sensational crime in the newspapers of the day, Westbrook avoids taking an exploitative approach.
Daily Telegraph
This year was also very good for debut novels of Australian historical fiction. I particularly enjoyed Anna Westbrook’s Dark Fires Shall Burn, based on true events ... remarkable for the way in which the setting is rendered, in extraordinarily vivid detail. I hope that Westbrook continues to write: she clearly has an abundance of talent.
Hannah Kent, Guardian Best Books of 2016
I could not put this book down. Anna Westbrook has captured the seedy, soldier-strewn Sydney of the 1940s in extraordinarily vivid detail. Dark Fires Shall Burn crackles with tension, its transgressive characters enthralling in their ambiguity and flawed humanity.
Hannah Kent, Author of Burial Rites
Ashley Hay, Author of The Railwayman’s Wife
Sydney in the late 1940s, a real unsolved murder, and a delightful cast of colourful characters – Anna Westbrook has plucked this story of hardship, murder, and friendship from history and given it glorious new life. The plot throbs with unsettling dark notes, and above this, Westbrook’s sentences soar with a musical grace. All together the elements add up to a virtuosic debut that deserves a standing ovation.
Krissy Kneen
Anna Westbrook wields the pen so assuredly that it’s hard to believe this is her debut novel.
The Big Issue
Vividly brings to life the wretchedness of postwar Sydney ... Westbrook's rendering of the period has an air of authenticity I have rarely found in contemporary novels, thanks in part to her shrewd use of recognisably Aussie vernacular. But what I loved most was how convincingly Westbrook depicts the precarious nature of women's lives and livelihoods, and their desperate fight for some level of control – often at great personal cost.
Good Reading
Anna Westbrook delves into Sydney’s seedy underbelly for this story, based on a real crime, set in 1946 … Westbrook has created an atmospheric tale of post-war life, full of sly grog, war-damaged soldiers and prostitutes … Verdict: dark and gripping.
Herald Sun
Dark, tender and gripping; this book sent my heart racing.
Mette Jakobsen, Author of The Vanishing Act
With her marvellously suggestive title, Anna Westbrook takes us to a dramatic era in recent Australian history. The time is 1946 and the place is Sydney’s Newtown, where a critical housing shortage, impoverishment, post-war trauma and lawlessness have created a ferment of chaos and danger … Dark Fires Shall Burn reminds us just how close the past is to our present.
Sydney Morning Herald
A richly textured, entertaining caper ... convincing.
The Saturday Paper
It’s hard to believe this is a debut novel.
The West Weekend
Compelling ... wonderful contrasts of light and dark ... These make the crime when it occurs even more poignant, and the reactions heartbreaking. This is fiction that draws a strong line between the battle to survive and the actions of a man with an entitlement complex that is breathtaking in its savagery.
Newton Review of Books
Based on the true events of a local, unsolved murder, Dark Fires Shall Burn is an atmospheric literary crime novel ... a terrific read to be enjoyed by crime, literary and history buffs alike.
Better Read Than Dead
Anna Westbrook delves into Sydney’s seedy underbelly ... Templeton, in particular, is heartbreaking ... Despite the lurid subject matter, which made it a sensational crime in the newspapers of the day, Westbrook avoids taking an exploitative approach.
Daily Telegraph
This year was also very good for debut novels of Australian historical fiction. I particularly enjoyed Anna Westbrook’s Dark Fires Shall Burn, based on true events ... remarkable for the way in which the setting is rendered, in extraordinarily vivid detail. I hope that Westbrook continues to write: she clearly has an abundance of talent.
Hannah Kent, Guardian Best Books of 2016
I could not put this book down. Anna Westbrook has captured the seedy, soldier-strewn Sydney of the 1940s in extraordinarily vivid detail. Dark Fires Shall Burn crackles with tension, its transgressive characters enthralling in their ambiguity and flawed humanity.
Hannah Kent, Author of Burial Rites
My Journey into the Heart of Terror: Ten Days in the Islamic State by Jürgen Todenhöfer
A rare inside view of ISIS and insight into the terrorist organisation's methods and hold on adherents.
Publishers Weekly
Todenhöfer describes his efforts as a brave journalist willing to risk his life to understand and report on the underpinnings of the Islamic State and its sympathisers ... this book is urgently needed in a world where violence, ideology, and bigotry seem so seductive in the public arena ... Journalism at its best.
Lawrence Krauss
In a welter of books about Daesh, this one stands out for its face-to-face encounters, the direct dialogue with the group’s members in many pages of transcript, and a good history of its origins and hostile relations with Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda affiliate. That’s aside from its gripping story of making contact, crossing the lines, and dicing with danger among psychopathic fanaticism.
The Saturday Paper
Publishers Weekly
Todenhöfer describes his efforts as a brave journalist willing to risk his life to understand and report on the underpinnings of the Islamic State and its sympathisers ... this book is urgently needed in a world where violence, ideology, and bigotry seem so seductive in the public arena ... Journalism at its best.
Lawrence Krauss
In a welter of books about Daesh, this one stands out for its face-to-face encounters, the direct dialogue with the group’s members in many pages of transcript, and a good history of its origins and hostile relations with Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda affiliate. That’s aside from its gripping story of making contact, crossing the lines, and dicing with danger among psychopathic fanaticism.
The Saturday Paper
Teens: what we're really thinking by Paul Bühre
Straight from the frontline of teenage life, it takes you deep inside the mind of a (rather smart) 15 year old to bring you the agonies and ecstasy of modern adolescence. Teens is full of hilarious home truths, toe-curling moments, and reminders of what it feels like in the daily battle to appear ‘cool’.
Suzanne Franks
A great read. Every teenager will be able to relate to something in this book, and adults will understand more about what their teen is going through. Few other books provide so accurate an insight into the adolescent brain.
Elise, Aged 16
So accurate, so true, so right! Parents must read the Ten Commandments, especially number 11??
Caitlin, Aged 15
Suzanne Franks
A great read. Every teenager will be able to relate to something in this book, and adults will understand more about what their teen is going through. Few other books provide so accurate an insight into the adolescent brain.
Elise, Aged 16
So accurate, so true, so right! Parents must read the Ten Commandments, especially number 11??
Caitlin, Aged 15
I am Doodle Cat by Lauren Marriott, Kat Patrick
Funny, easy to read, lovely to look at, and just great for committing to memory, helping to develop emergent reader’s skills.
Early Years Education
A colourful adventure … Lauren Marriott’s illustrations are truly delightful … A charmingly put together book perfect for little ones to enjoy reading alone.
Primary Times
It’s not difficult to see why this won the Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Designed Children’s Book. Silly and sweet … Kat Patrick's tomato red cat loves a number of things, some stranger than others.
The Big Issue, Four Stars
One read of this tale of a cat and his list of loves will inspire you and your little one to share what you love.
Australian Mother & Baby
This uplifting read is a great way to teach your little ones to love and appreciate everything they enjoy about life, from small things to big things alike.
Practical Parenting
Early Years Education
A colourful adventure … Lauren Marriott’s illustrations are truly delightful … A charmingly put together book perfect for little ones to enjoy reading alone.
Primary Times
It’s not difficult to see why this won the Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Designed Children’s Book. Silly and sweet … Kat Patrick's tomato red cat loves a number of things, some stranger than others.
The Big Issue, Four Stars
One read of this tale of a cat and his list of loves will inspire you and your little one to share what you love.
Australian Mother & Baby
This uplifting read is a great way to teach your little ones to love and appreciate everything they enjoy about life, from small things to big things alike.
Practical Parenting