Light is shed on the lives of the people living on Ruby Road; lives well-lived with love and kindness shared, entwined with one another, regardless of their differences.
Mum Betty has not been herself since the birth of baby Maria.
Gran arranges for her to spend some time in the country to recuperate from what she tells everybody, is a bout of influenza.
Twelve-year-old Patsy is sent for her summer holidays to Ruby Road where Uncle Alex and Aunt Mary own a Milk Bar.
She hopes to keep busy to prevent becoming bored, while filling her sketchbook which is her constant companion, with whatever she sees.
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The Prime Council takes over the Radiant Palace. New laws suppressing the citizens are enforced till they are unable to survive. The burrows become their home.
Poverty prevails.
Warnings are not circulated before the cyclone hits. The burrows flood. All those caught within, drown, including eight-year-old Cori’s parents.
Life is preparing Cori for a great adventure when she discovers information about the artificers that created OceanForged Armour.
My parents’ consistent efforts of reading to me led to a pastime of reading on my own. The return on their investment was never having to hear 'I’m bored' from their oldest child, whose nose was always in a book.
Dad and I
find an injured koala on our property …
Dad says
keeping koalas safe will be a big job.
I need a
plan and help from some friends …’
There is so
much to digest and reflect upon in this book – for everyone, not just picture
book aged readers.
Orin is courageous and modest. With his friends Beatrix and Pascal, he goes in search of a missing villager. They are well equipped for any attack by the goblins who have recently overrun the village, due to their their mentor Bruno, who has been training them for the Village Guard.
But life has other plans for them all.
When Orin and friends lead an attack on the fiends sent to destroy Draeland, a power is released in Orin.
For it is
this father’s undying love that has borne magic, mystery and wonder in
abundance with the birth of picture book, Tiny Dancer.
‘Tiny Dancer
is about making each moment count and living life to the full.’
A tortoise may live for over one hundred years. An olive tree, up to five thousand. But a mayfly lives for just one day.
Luna is a wonderful, relatable character.
She is smart, loves books, writing and the diary she is encouraged to keep, helps to centre her when her mind is whirring.
It has been five weeks since Luna’s last entry. So much has happened during that time.
Luna and her Mum have become dog walkers.
Their persistence and lots of advertising found them customers.
Like many of Gleitzman’s tales, Childish is a collision of inane and razor-sharp intellect, resulting in an invitation to think deeper and go further.
Arkie and Dot are phenomenal kid heroes. Arkie is from the bush. Dot is city minded and part of her family’s dumpling dynasty located within the city burbs.
With
things going sour in the bush, Arkie is jettisoned to live with Nan in the city
until his parents can sell the family farm and join him.
Armed
with typical Aussie bush stoicism, Arkie’s straightforward integrity matches
Dot’s can-do, uncompromising disposition and grit beautifully. This is a merry
match despite its infancy and one that is a delight to follow as the friends try
their best shake local council and the utility companies into action.
The narrator is an unnamed young girl who loves where she lives.
All the neighbours are her friends, and she plays a meaningful part in each of their surrounding lives, and they in hers.
But their neighbourhood’s almost perfect life, is being shattered by a monster.