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My Dead Bunny Teaching Notes

My Dead Bunny, Sigi Cohen (author), James Foley (illus.), Walker Books, 2015. WHO: Sigi Cohen, originally from South Africa, now living in Perth, has a compulsion for matching words that rhyme. He is a lawyer by day, children’s writer by night. My Dead Bunny is his first book, shortlisted in the 2016 Children’s Book Council … [Read more…]

Small and Big

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With large, clear font, this gentle story tells of two friends that are like polar opposites; a self-assured boy called Big and his little, timid lizard-like pet, Small. Their perspectives on the world differ greatly. Big bellows in the city streets, admiring the huge buildings and long streets. Small curiously observes autumn leaves and trickles … [Read more…]