Review: Frank and Bert

16th Mar 2022 ragamuffinbooks1 Comment

Frank and Bert is a gorgeous and playful book about friendship, hide and seek and playing fair.

Review: Piano Fingers

16th Mar 20223rd May 2022 ragamuffinbooksLeave a comment

Piano Fingers is a melodic book by brilliant author/illustrator extraordinaire Caroline Magerl. It’s a story about two sisters and creating music.

Review: Tractor

2nd Mar 20222nd Mar 2022 ragamuffinbooksLeave a comment

How much do you know about tractoring? Do you have a little one obsessed with everything farming? Then this is the book for them! Sally Sutton is a master of informative easy to read books and her latest book Tractor is no exception.

This book is all about farming and every page takes us through different things a tractor can do.

Review: Zoo School

24th Feb 202224th Feb 2022 ragamuffinbooksLeave a comment

We all know that going to school can feel like entering a jungle, and sometimes it feels like it could be full of wild animals. Well, imagine if you went to school and it WAS full of wild animals! This is exactly what happens in Heath McKenzie’s book Zoo School.

Review: How to Make A Bird

19th Feb 202219th Feb 2022 ragamuffinbooksLeave a comment

How to Make a Bird is an award-winning book that is genuinely stunning, poetic and everything beautiful. Mostly, it is a story for creators.

Review: Trick Number Two

18th Nov 202118th Nov 2021 ragamuffinbooksLeave a comment

Trick Number Two is a new book from popular creators Nick Bland and Stephen Michael King (their second team up I believe! The first being The Magnificent Tree), and is a magical story about about three little (adorable) wizards who just want to learn magic, but will have to learn some patience first.

Review: Happy Hoppy Home

11th Nov 202111th Nov 2021 ragamuffinbooksLeave a comment

Happy Hoppy Home is an adorable story about a family of rabbits who go on a journey to find the right place to live, and who discover what home means along the way.

Papa Hare and his four children all live together in a cramped little burrow. There is no room for the bunny children (Dot, Pip and Pap, and Baby Cottontail) to play and dance and rest. So Papa Hare comes up with a brilliant plan – they will move to a bigger burrow! They dig up and down and sideways, but they can’t find anything that is big enough for them. Until finally, they find somewhere that seems just perfect, but does it really suit them?

Happy Hoppy Home is a gorgeous humbling book about home and family. It is easy to read and the illustrations are so sweet, I particularly like the different characters and how every page feels like you’re peeking into a burrow itself. The bunny illustrations are adorable and have so much character. A straightforward story, that is told with enough charm to be very enjoyable, and features an important lesson that all kids and adults need to remember – home is wherever your family are.

To grab a copy of this burrowy book, click here!

Title: Happy Hoppy Home

Author/Illustrator: Tull Suwannakit

Publisher: Scholastic

Published: 2021

Ages: 3+

Review: Fearless With Dad

1st Nov 20211st Nov 2021 ragamuffinbooksLeave a comment

Fearless with Dad is a story that features all the things we get up to with our dads!

Review: My First Book of Aussie Animals

21st Oct 202121st Oct 2021 ragamuffinbooksLeave a comment

My First Book of Aussie Animals is a beautifully designed lift-the-flap board book that features a search for a range of Australian animals.

Picture Book Review: Winner Winner Bin Chicken Dinner

8th Oct 20218th Oct 2021 ragamuffinbooksLeave a comment

Everyone is familiar with the dreaded bin chicken. They do have quite the reputation these days, the poor ibis. This sequel to the popular “Bin Chicken” book by the same authors, gives us some more insight into the ibis’ life and this poor ibis is not let off the hook looking for a meal.

In a dirty old town, on a busy old street, struts a fine-feathered bird with leathery feet.

This book is a fun easy to read story about an ibis looking for some dinner. The poor ibis tries all kinds of places from French restaurants to fish and chips. The rhyming is perfect and great to read out loud, making it fun for all ages. I felt a little bad for the bin chicken whose relentless attempts to secure some food continue to get muddled. But the end is sweet and funny.

Winner Winner, Bin Chicken Dinner is a clever and enjoyable book that features themes of friendship and how we treat others. The illustrations are fantastic in great colours and my favourite are the ones of the seagulls acting tough and flexing their muscles.