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Julie’s 2024 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
Goodreads Author
Born
Melbourne, Australia
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Margaret Wild, Melissa Stewart, Claire Saxby
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Member Since
July 2010
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/revel-in-reading
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Odd Bods: The World's Unusual Animals
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I've Got Eyes! : Exceptional Eyes of the Animal World
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I've Got Feet!: Fantastical Feet of the Animal World
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I've Got a Tail!: Terrific Tails of the Animal World
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Ocean Animal Adaptations (A+ Books Amazing Animal Adaptations)
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Whose Home Is This?
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Dog Beach
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Desert Animal Adaptations (A+ Books)
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My Australia
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Cheer Up, Blobfish!
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Julie’s Recent Updates
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Writing Picture Books: A Hands-On Guide from Story Creation to Publication
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| Another visually striking and accessibly informative book for young fact-lovers who want to know more about nature. This one's about insects! ...more | |
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Minimal text accompanies the illustrations that really tell the story. Kids will love seeing what is *really* going on when Sam and Dave (and dog) dig a hole. Happy ending belies what could have been. Fun and funny. |
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| Upgrading this book to five stars on review - it is so well written, with a great underlying theme. A wonderful fantasy book for middle graders up, with magic, wizards and even dragons. | |
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| A wonderful picture book. Sparse, imaginative, supportive, uplifting. Incredible illustrations and short unpunctuated text create a world that feels overwhelming and uncomfortable, as the world can indeed feel at times to a young child. But it ends o ...more | |
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| I have not experienced the loss of a child, but as a children's author I found this book an accessible story that could help lead to conversations between a child who has lost a sibling and a grieving parent or carer. The story normalises the tragic ...more | |
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| A too-cute overview of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet accompanied by photos of IRL guinea pigs in traditional costume. If you love guinea pigs, this is for you! ...more | |
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Cane toad. Brain toad. Riding on a train toad … A cute read featuring phonics and the love-em-or-hate-em amphibian. There's even a reference to politics, which may go over most children's heads but make a parent's eyes twinkle. ...more |
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| At a Sunday yoga session by the creek, Lil the wombat is naturally disappointed that she cannot do all the poses of the other bushland animals. Back in her burrow, she finds her own unique solution to the challenge …and it turns out to be a huge hit ...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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