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We booked two hours. We stayed four, and left because we decided to rather than because he was finished. Imaginationation at Chadstone — the price, the grippy socks, the separate entrance, and why I got to sit down.
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He tried to play with something that turned out to be a bin. Children's Play: Ragnar Kjartansson at NGV International with a four-year-old — what's actually in the room, and who it seems to be for.
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It was basically empty when we got there, which I thought was lucky. Little Builders at The District Docklands — a plain, solid indoor sandpit, and one piece of booking advice that runs against the grain.
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The ball pit is deeper than it looks. Bubble Planet in Brunswick with a four-year-old — which rooms are fun, what it costs, and a bit of honesty about the wear and tear.
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We went to ACMI because the NGV had been a fizzer and we still had an afternoon to fill. The Story of the Moving Image exhibition with a four-year-old — what works and why you might still need your wallet even though the exhibition itself is free.
Jedediah Berry has a new book out and, when I looked, it wasn't in any of the libraries in Tasmania. Nor my local bookstore. None of his work is actually, which feels like a real loss, especially since The Manual of Detection is the kind of book that
Looking forward to Marisha Pessl's Darkly very much. Impossible doors, unstable reality, a school that might not be what it seems - it's this same strange territory I keep trying to write about. While we wait (or later when we want more) here's an in-
On shapes in darkness and the stories we tell about them Some books know exactly when to turn out the lights. I gave Circle to a friend's three-year-old daughter recently. She's not usually one for sitting through stories, her parents say, but this one