Flip With Joy

An encouraging and empowering picture book that’s all about celebrating the joys of being a girl! This joyous read showcases the incredible variety of ways in which girls can choose to live their lives.

The rhythmic text and vibrant illustrations depict girls with different personalities, having different strengths and enjoying different activities. It’s a that sends an important and positive message that encourages girls to simply be themselves.

Girls Like is written by and illustrated by Published by

If you had a hippo and had to hide it, where would you put it? Well, the protagonist in this story has a whole lot of suggestions!

Under a chair? Perhaps in the fridge? Or maybe, in a tree fort! In an attempt to hide her hippo from her mum, a child comes up with a series of creative hiding places, each more outlandish than the one before! It’s a celebration of a child’s endless imagination and determination to keep her hippo safe ☺️

This is a playful picture book that’s written in rhyme and invites readers to excitedly anticipate the next spot! The clever twist at the end of the story makes for a satisfying ending. Perfect for a read aloud that’s followed up by getting readers to create/write about their own hiding spot for a hippo!

How Do You Hide a Hippo is written by and illustrated by Thank you to for our review copy.

Bear Rescue is beautiful addition to Hannah Gold’s heartwarming series of books that feature messages of environmental advocacy and strong connections between children and wildlife.

This story follows April, the well-loved protagonist from Finding Bear who has a special connection with a particular polar bear. Set in Svalbard in the far north Arctic, April and her family spend their days living in a beautiful, yet harsh environment.

It’s a day of celebration and April is part of a top-secret family event. Everything seems to be going according to plan until a sudden snowstorm hits and August, April’s little brother goes missing! With the help of her beloved polar bear and a husky named Blaze, April takes it upon herself to find and rescue August.

Bear Rescue is a much shorter novel compared to the other books in this series. Its wholesome writing and short format makes it accessible to younger readers and would even work well as a class based novel study!

Bear Rescue is written by Thank you to for our review copy.

A picture book that will make kids with hayfever and other allergies feel so seen! Written with playful, rhythmic rhyming text, it’s such an engaging one to read aloud!

Casey Keys is a girl with a pretty explosive sneeze. Her allergies itch her nose and anything from bubbles in her bath to a pigeon feather on her path can make her sneeze. Her sneezes are so violent that they can rattle rooftops and send the neighbourhood cats flying!

Casey feels bad that she causes so much chaos and decides to sail out to sea to sneeze in peace. She starts to long for her friends and family who soon come together to help Casey manage the situation in a really fun way ❤️

I simply adored this story! The bright and expressive illustrations capture Casey’s explosive sneezes and following chaos in such an engaging way. Highly recommend this one!

Casey Keys And Her Powerful Sneeze is written by and illustrated by Thank you to for our review copy.

Inspired by true events, The Flower Garden tells a story about the women and children who were held at the Changi POW camp in Singapore during WW2 when the country fell to the Japanese. Despite being Singaporean myself, this book describes a piece of history that I was never aware of. I’m always in awe of how illuminating picture books can be.

This touching and gentle war story centers around Mrs Elizabeth Ennis, who took it upon herself to normalise life as much as possible for the children in Changi. She started a secret Girl Guides group to help them cope and give them hope. In turn, the children secretly scavenged for fabric scraps to turn into a ‘flower garden’ quilt for Mrs Ennis’ birthday.

The Changi Girl Guide quilt has since been donated to the Imperial War Museum by Elizabeth Ennis’ family.

This is a beautiful and poetically written historical story that definitely deserves a place on your shelf. The Teacher Notes on the Walker website provide support for the use of this book in the classroom.

The Flower Garden: A Changi Story is written by and illustrated by Thank you to for our review copy.

Know a kid who loves reading about all things gross? This book would be right up their alley!

This entertaining and humorous non fiction book is packed full of fascinating information about all things Number Two! The book starts off by acknowledging that poo is something that everyone has in common and readers learn ALL the poo related synonyms 😆 Each double page spread in the book explains a poo related topic such as Pooing in the Past, Prehistoric Poo (archeology related), Poo in the Zoo and so much more. Factual links are also drawn between poo and the fields of technology, art, history and environmental science.

I truly never know how much there was to know about poo! My 11 year old absolutely engrossed in reading this one and I’m sure it’ll be a hit in my classroom too 😁

Poo! What? Where? Is written by and illustrated by Thank you to for our review copy.

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Evie loves celebrations of every kind and this time around, it’s up to her to judge the Celebration Festival! How will ever pick a winner when she enjoys them all so much? She’ll have to take a careful look at each one before deciding 😁

Each double page spread of this book features a calendar month and showcases the festivals or celebrations that occur in each one. The featured celebrations range more well known ones like St Patrick’s Day and Earth Day in March to quirky ones like Spaghetti Day in January. It’s wonderful seeing a wide range of different cultures featured in this book.

A useful resource for the classroom to support discussions and units about multiculturalism and celebrations ✨

Celebration Festival is written by and illustrated by Thank you to for our review copy.

Amp up the cuteness factor with a copy of We’re Going on a Teddy Hunt! We’re teaming up with to give away a copy of this adorable book to one lucky winner.

Join the bunnies of Hoppity Hill as they go in search of their teddies in the lead up to bedtime. This interactive book engages readers as they lift flaps on different pages to help with the hunt. A book that your little readers will surely enjoy at bedtime.

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Your Next Read is a new, junior fiction series that’s relatable, accessible and great for building confidence for independent reading. On the cover of each book, readers are able to decide if the book fits their interests by looking at the little silver circles that summarise the book’s themes. Simply brilliant!

The Missing Pencil Case and Will Fin Win are two of the four titles in the first batch of releases in the Silver Series (ages 5-8).

📚 The Missing Pencil Case is written by and illustrated by .draws In this story, the protagonist, Lea raises money for for charity and keeps it all in her pencil case. However, disaster strikes when the pencil case goes missing! Lea goes on a search with help from her friends and family who also support her by sharing their own, similar experiences. Themes: Mystery, Family, Humour

📚 Will Fin Win? is written by and illustrated by Tom Jellett
Fin is great at doing many things but what is really wants is to win a medal, just like his sister. So, he decides to train really hard for the long distance race that would take place on the school sports day. However, things don’t go as planned due to a puppy getting in Fin’s way. He’s disappointed but finds an unexpected silver lining :)
Themes: Animals, Sport, Friends

This series makes the teacher in me so excited and happy. I highly recommend it for your emergent readers.

Thank you to .and.creative for our review copies.

We’re on a roll with junior fiction recs! Today’s book is a funny one and has elements of both chapter books and graphic novels. Emergent readers will enjoy this one!

Spud and Snowball cats who spend their days lying on the couch and watching TV. Tired of eating the same Kitty-Bix each day, they decide to order themselves some Fancy Fish after seeing an ad on TV.

The parcel they receive isn’t what they expect! They end up getting fanciest fish ever, named Sir Mimsy Woffle-Poffle-Foffington, a famous and important opera singer. Spud and Snowball are relegated to being Sir Mimsy’s butlers and quickly tire of their roles. Will they come up with a plan to get out of their sticky situation? Hijinks definitely ensue as they give it their best shot!

Spud and Snowball and the Fancy Fish is written and illustrated by Judith Rossell. Thank you to for our review copy.