Its been a book, its been an opera, and pretty soon it will be a movie. In the meantime, the original picture book, Where the Wild Things Are, lovingly put together by Maurice Sendak….
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The Children’s Books Council of Australia has announced its prize winning books for 2009 and as usual, the list has some interesting choices
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If you were a child in the 1980s, or indeed if you had a child in the 1980s, you would certainly remember Grug…Meanwhile, at Booktopia, we have another one of those great exclusive deals for you.
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Every now and then I get to fall into a book so completely that I can’t help feel delighted that the gods have somehow conspired to allow me to read and write about books for a living.
From the opening paragraphs of Timothée de Fombelle’s Toby Alone, I was hooked.
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