Review
HIH: The inside story of Australia's biggest corporate collapse by Mark Westfield
by Gideon Haigh •
Handbook Of Australian, New Zealand And Antarctic Birds: Volume 6: Pardalotes To Shrike-Thrushes edited by P.J. Higgins and J.M. Peter
by Peter Menkhorst •
Fact or Fission?: The truth about Australia's nuclear ambitions by Richard Broinowski
by Wayne Reynolds •
The Man From the Sunrise Side by Ambrose Mungala Chalarimeri & The Mish by Robert Lowe
by Bruce Sims •
Walking Naked by Alyssa Brugman & The Barrumbi Kids by Leonie Norrington
by Judith Ridge •
When a children’s picture book first comes into the home, there is no way of telling whether it is going to be ‘the one’ – the one that will be read and reread; that will have pictures drawn about it and songs made up about it; that will be carried around and allowed to spend the night at the end of the bed. There’s no rhyme or reason to it; awards and critical acclaim don’t mean too much. The book is simply chosen, and becomes the centre of the child’s universe for a week, a month – a lifetime.
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