Banjo & Ruby Red by Libby Gleeson and Freya Blackwood Banjo & Ruby Red is a quintessentially Australian book with universal sensibilities.  Featuring Banjo the chook dog, whose job it is to herd and gather the chooks into the shed, and Ruby Red, a chook aside from the rest of the flock, who refuses to be bossed around.  Ruby Red is frustrating to Banjo, until one day he finds her injured, and carries her tenderly to his little dog house, to rest and recuperate.  After her recovery, it is Banjo’s roost that the red chook rules. Full of fun and lots of noise of the barking and squawking variety, this book is lots of fun for reading aloud and interaction, and its message that…