Announcement: New Team Member: Meet Sue Warren!

It's always a little exciting sharing good news, especially when there might have seemed little to crow and coo about this year. 

So it's with all the joy and jubilation of a sky-full of New Year fireworks that we welcome a new reviewer into our esteemed KBR ranks. 

Please welcome Sue Warren! Teacher-librarian, creative genius, kids book devotee, blogger and all-round zanster (All right, we made up that word but think it sums up Sue pretty well). 

You can sum up more for yourself from her 12 Curly Questions below. Enjoy! Look out for Sue's reviews in the new year.

Interviews: A Very KBR Christmas 2018!

It's time to pour some rum-flavoured fun onto your fruit mince pies and settle back for a good read - because you love stories, right?

As always, our intrepid team of reviewers has tried to leave no page unturned in order bring you the best of another bountiful year of bedazzling children's stories.

Many have made our hearts soar and our emotions bloom, just like a great Christmas tale. So spend a moment or two with us as the KBR team share their fondest festive recollections and recommendations.

KBR Recommends: Fabulous Non Fiction Finds of 2017

Millennium readers are blessed with a fountain of choices from which to source new knowledge. Before you launch into 2018 with them, explore these 2017 releases. They contain a universe of facts, figures and fun in artful, creative, expressive and colourful ways guaranteed to give any app a run for its money and children plenty of reasons to learn through good old-fashioned page turning.

Create Your Own Christmas by Isabel Thomas and Katie Abey, Bloomsbury, $14.99, 9781408882207 ages 5 - 8

The Awesome Book of Animals – The World’s Most Awesome Facts in Pictures by Adam Frost, Bloomsbury, $11.99, 9781408885130 ages 6 - 10

FACTS! One for Every Day of the Year by Tracey Turner and Fatti Burke, Bloomsbury, $22.99  9781408884621 ages 7 - 12

Illumanatomy by Carnovsky and Kate Davies, Quarto Group UK, $35, 9781786030504 ages 8 - 12 (Read our review later this month)

 

Highest Mountain, Deepest Ocean – A Pictorial Compendium of Natural Wonders by Kate Baker and Page Tsou, $33, 9781783704842 ages 9 - 12

 

Australian Animal Atlas by Leonard Cronin and Marion Westmascott, Allen & Uwin, $29.99, 9781760294144 ages 6 - 12

Optical Illusions by Gianni A Sarcone and Marie-Jo Waeber, Quarto Group UK, $26.46, 9781784938475 ages 6 - 12

Elle Awesome Presents How to Feel Awesome Everyday Illustrated by Astrid Hicks, Penguin Random House, $19.99 9780143786085 ages 7 - 14

It's OK to Feel the Way You Do by Josh Langley, Big Sky Publishing, $14.99 9781925520965 ages 4 - 8 (Read our review, here)

Rock Pool Secrets by Narelle Oliver, Walker Books Australia, $24.99, 9781922179357  ages 4 - 8 (Read our review, here)