Book Review: What Dog Knows
January 8, 2024
Part fiction, part non-fiction, part quiz, all fun!
Rebecca has a particular interest in books for children that encourage their imagination and inspire further reading. Books with subtle humour, excellent language, and without cynicism are a favourite. She specialises in fiction and delights in beautiful, well-written books.
Part fiction, part non-fiction, part quiz, all fun!
Great world-building and expansive characters that are interwoven with history.
Fen and Ray set out on a journey that will test their will and determination.
This is a dazzling, killer read of comic brilliance, and a perfect antidote to the disconcerting times we currently find ourselves in.
A beautiful tale of five puppets, their thoughts, conversations and adventures.
When people keep disappearing from her village, Dance Violet teams up with a ragtag group of children to discover where they’ve gone.
When Simon is spider-napped, it’s a race against time to try and save him, and maybe find out a bit more about who Corpse really is.
K2, Izzabird, Theo and Mabel, with Puck the flying robot, are still on the adventure from Which Way to Anywhere.
Undercover boy-detective Jason Mason is on the case when a Moa turns up in his local park!
The final exciting instalment in the Miss Penny Dreadful series.
Montgomery BonBon must solve not one, but TWO murders!
Adventure, mystery, magic and a journey like no other.
Ratatoskas, Centaurs, Griffins, Dragons and Sphinx. We call them “mythical creatures” but in the Archipelago, they are real.
A thoroughly entertaining, fast-paced story of one girl’s rise from obscurity to leader and Queen of Galla.
Imagine your name is Twelve. You have given up your family, your home, and your name to become one of the elite Hunters.
Liska lives in Arborven, an ancient forest city. She is a shapeshifter, born to protect the tree that gives everyone their special powers.
Faelan is vegetarian, plays the harp and is friends with a skunk! The rest of the pack thinks he’s weird and would rather eat the skunk.
Corpse is a ghost (sort of) living in the roof of a ramshackle hut above the evil three witches who have bewitched the town of Elston-Fright.
This is an old folktale made new. It has the usual dark elements of a good fairytale, with Klassen’s wry wit and sense of impending doom.
This story is even more exciting than the first, with twists and backflips and a new threat from outside the school.
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