Halloween  is a festival of the dead but a possum watches from a garden as plastic props become pollution and lead to the death of real animals in a rhyming illustrated book by Maree Coote’s ‘Possum Tragic: a tale of pumpkins and plastic’.

 David Greagg takes us on a romp through the practices, language and mores of 15th Century England in his novel, 'Harry the Fifth'. There are anachronisms suggesting how little we have changed and anthropomorphic points of view which also add a touch of variety and spice.