The Quite Nice Wolf doesn’t fit in with the local wolf pack. He commences training to become a proper wolf – one that’s BIG and BAD. Can he help the wolf pack with their master plan? For ages 3 – 6 years. Review by Amy Wakley-Ahearn I don’t know about you, but my kids have […]
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Review: Eve of Eridu, by Alanah Andrews
Emotions are dangerous; restraint of feeling is necessary for a peaceful society. ~ Book of Eridu Nuclear fallout and and biological warfare have driven the few remaining people underground to try to keep the human race alive in a new society they call Eridu. Several generations later, Eve is entering her final cycle before the […]
Men at Work: why dads are missing out on time with their kids (and how to change it)
For decades women have fought to gain the autonomy and satisfaction that comes with being in the paid workforce. We’ve been knocking on the doors of businesses, demanding to be let in. We’ve successfully campaigned for affordable, quality childcare, smashed glass ceilings and gained seats at the management table. The problem is, the traffic between […]
Review: The Shining Wall, by Melissa Ferguson
LeaderCorp didn’t care about people. Everything was a transaction to them. If the cost exceeded their benefit, there was no point. The Shining Wall, by Melissa Ferguson, imagines a future dystopia that mashes together all the worst possible scenarios from a deeply humanised perspective – climate change, human destruction (increased radiation levels are mentioned), exploitation […]
Getting kids off screens and into books
by Gemma Brown We all know there are many kids having more screen time than they should, and at the same time children and teens are spending less time reading. In fact, in a recent report (Scholastic Kids and Family Reading), 75 percent of parents with kids aged 6-17 wish their child would do more […]
Review: Watershed, by Jane Abbott
The brutality of climate change has destroyed civilisation as we know it in Watershed‘s dystopian future. The seas have risen and the last time it rained on land was decades ago. Catastrophic weather patterns have rendered all forms of advanced technology useless. For a long time, anarchy reigned. In the Citadel, the Tower has built […]
