Julie Murphy
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Melbourne, Australia
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Margaret Wild, Melissa Stewart, Claire Saxby
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July 2010
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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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2012
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Desert Animal Adaptations (A+ Books)
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2011
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My Australia
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Whose Baby Is This?
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2012
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Tiny Possum and the Migrating Moths
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Julie’s Recent Updates
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What a gorgeous book! Celebrating worldwide birthday practices, but with animal illustrations, this is a wonderful, creative venture with something to please every child. The text is sparse, joyful and rhyming, and the illustrations are clever (with ...more | |
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An excellent book on a number of levels. Interesting, fun story, a green theme, humor, great characters... I thoroughly enjoyed this windy book. Reread today and this book is still a big winner. So funny! |
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In gentle rhyming verse, two children travel through the ocean layers; down, down to the murky depths, before hitching a ride on a whale back to the surface, ending on the beach. Gorgeous illustrations of lots of different sea animals by patients at ...more | |
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A wonderful story, dark and mysterious like the ocean. This edition has similarly dark and mysterious illustrations by Elise Hurst. This story folds worlds and time upon itself while grounding itself in a young boy's perceptions (as his older self lo ...more | |
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A stunningly beautiful book, with illustrations incorporating paints hand-made from sands and seawater sourced from around Australia. A variety of sealife found around Australia is covered, with short, lyrical descriptions of what they are doing whil ...more | |
Julie wants to read 60 books in the 2024 Reading Challenge
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A great read aloud storytime book for the youngest children. Bright colours and simple rhyming phrases will entertain little ones. It's not nonfiction - rather, it's a simple story venturing into Seussian whimsy and imagination. Essentially, a fish g ...more | |
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With a title like this, you just know how it's going to end...but the journey there is loads of fun. Lots of rhyme, repetition and a few unusual words thrown in for interest. Lynley Dodd does it again! And those illustrations - little Schnitzel is su ...more | |
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With the rhythm, rhyme and repetition we expect from the Hairy Maclary series, this one is lighter on story but still fun and cute. I love the other characters making appearances in the background. | |
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A beautiful, heartwarming story about a girl and a strange smiling dog, and so much more. Ultimately I think it's about life, and how it has joy and sadness; sometimes even at the same time. No one writes like Kate DiCamillo, and the way her characte ...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
“Coraline sighed. 'You really don't understand do you?' she said. 'I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted, just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“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
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