This post contains affiliate links. All instances in which were given a review copy have been noted. Oh, books – thank you for being one thing that didn’t let us down in 2020! My girls and I spent so many…

Own Voices Books: Can You See Me? by Libby Scott and Rebecca Westcott
This post contains affiliate links. To celebrate Book Week in Australia, I am sharing a week’s worth of posts about #OwnVoices books, which is a concept coined in 2015 by Corrine Duyvis “to recommend kidlit about diverse characters written by authors…

Own Voices Books: Finding Our Heart by Thomas Mayor and Blak Douglas
This post contains affiliate links. To celebrate Book Week in Australia, I am sharing a week’s worth of posts about #OwnVoices books, which is a concept coined in 2015 by Corrine Duyvis “to recommend kidlit about diverse characters written by authors…

Own Voices Books: The Little Refugee by Anh Do & Suzanne Do, Illustrated by Bruce Whatley
This post contains affiliate links. To celebrate Book Week in Australia, I am sharing a week’s worth of posts about #OwnVoices books, which is a concept coined in 2015 by Corrine Duyvis “to recommend kidlit about diverse characters written by…

Own Voices Books: Wide Big World by Maxine Beneba Clarke and Isobel Knowles
This post contains affiliate links. This week, for Book Week, I am featuring posts on a few #OwnVoices books that we love. For more about Own Voices books and why I think they are important, see the intro to yesterday’s…

Own Voices Books: El Deafo by Cece Bell
This post contains affiliate links. It is, at long last (2 months later than usual), CBCA Book Week again in Australia. I’m happy for any reason to celebrate books, and typically over here on the blog, I have asked fellow…

RIBBIT RABBIT ROBOT Book Week Costumes by Victoria Mackinlay
Here are three quick and easy Book Week Costume ideas for Ribbit Rabbit Robot.

Picture Book Gifts for Australian Father’s Day
Australian Father’s Day falls in September. A picture book is the perfect gift.

Book Review: Slow Down by Rachel Williams and Freya Hartas
Slow Down, a picture book by by Rachel Williams, illustrated by Freya Hartas, celebrates the beauty of stopping to take notice.

Stay-at-Home Arts Activities & Classes for Kids by Australian Artists
*This article may contain affiliate links. As we continue to stay at home during the Covid-19 crisis, most of us with children are, to some extent, turning to the arts to keep busy and happy. At the same time, the…