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Julie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Julie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Julie Murphy
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Born
Melbourne, Australia
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Margaret Wild, Melissa Stewart, Claire Saxby
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July 2010
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| A story about a male Australian magpie who defends the eggs in his nest by swooping all human passers by. With an uplifting ending, this story lets children know why magpies swoop. Nonfiction back matter informs about the species. | |
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| When all the kids take to their wheels on Sunday, it's hard to be the novice who's just learning the ropes. Falling at first is to be expected. But what counts is to keep trying, and for the more experienced kids to be encouraging. This is a lovely s ...more | |
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| Rhyming verse describes all kinds of feelings and encourages children to understand that feelings are transient. When it all gets too much, take a deep breath and breath out. Soon a new feeling will come along. Illustrations show feelings as butterfl ...more | |
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| A fun story in rhyme that gives a fresh take on the solar system - from the perspective of a personified Earth. This story follows a lonely Earth and how it eventually finds a friend in the moon. In the process, true facts are covered about the plane ...more | |
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| An uplifting story about making fun and beauty out of what you have. Together. Even if you are apart. | |
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| This poem introduces a variety of the world's natural environments before encouraging young readers to care for them and steadfastly stay on course to protect them. The road is not always easy but, with steady breaths and determination, children can ...more | |
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| A short rhyming poem that introduces children to some sea/seashore creatures as they also learn to count. Gorgeous, vibrant illustrations. | |
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| An entertaining story that shed insight into how a neurodivergent child may think. It makes the process totally understandable, and ends in an uplifting resolution to the problem presented at the start. | |
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| A picture book about living with grief, presented through a calming, beautiful story. Deftly handled, never mentioned outright. Very clever. I suspect children handling grief will understand, and those who aren't will simply enjoy the peaceful story. ...more | |
“A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.”
― Sea Birds
― Sea Birds
“Spiders don't chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey's insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up its tasty lunch!”
― Arachnids
― Arachnids
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“I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.”
― Surrender
― Surrender
“But what she feels is sometimes hard to express...Much of what is best in her is warped on the voyage from within to without.”
― Of a Boy
― Of a Boy
“Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped in what is now called Cooktown for nearly two months while making repairs. Then they sailed south, where Cook claimed the east coast of Australia as British territory.”
― Great Barrier Reef Under Threat
― Great Barrier Reef Under Threat
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