When You're A Boy by Blake Nuto
24.99 AUD
Category: Social Issues
A powerful and moving exploration of what it means to be a boy from an exciting new author-illustrator talent. When you're a boy you are told how to be like the white-roaring oceans. But I've learned the fierceness of flowers the glory of colour and the beauty of dreaming. Wander through forests, cross ...Show more
Huda Was Here by H. Hayek
15.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
Huda hatches a bold plan to help her dad get a job - which lands her and her brother in all kinds of trouble. A delightful and hilarious story from a CBCA award-winning author, about a lion-hearted girl who just wants the best for her family. Huda yawns loudly and stretches out her arms. Almost like she ...Show more
Gymnastica Fantastica! by Briony Stewart
24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Quick! Come and see! Something fabulous, it's . . . me! Gymnastica Fantastica! is a joyful and exuberant picture book about a child discovering and attempting new physical skills and putting on wonderfully imperfect shows for whoever will watch them. Join Gymnastica, a small person with big energy, as t ...Show more
The Quiet and the Loud by Helena Fox
19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
A powerful, lyrical novel about friendship, family, forgiveness, trauma, love and our hopeless, hopeful world from the award-winning author of How It Feels to Float. George's life is loud. On the water, though, with everything hushed above and below, George is steady, silent. Then her estranged dad says ...Show more
Our Country: Where History Happened by Mark Greenwood
26.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Our Country Ser.
The second title in the OUR COUNTRY series, celebrating and contextualising the richness of Australia's history, and where it happened. In every corner of Australia, history happened. The pages of this book are a journey through tens of thousands of years. Our history is recorded in ancient rock art, in ...Show more
Hope Is The Thing by Johanna Bell, Erica Wagner
24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
A highly original, beautiful and deeply meaningful picture book that sees the marvellous and inspiring world of birds through the eyes of a child and celebrates birds' adaptability and ingenuity. Hope is a kookaburra singing the sun Hope is the emu learning to run ... Let your imagination soar in this ...Show more
Phonobet (HB) by Kathy Weeden, Kim Drane
24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Age range 4 to 6 Come and meet the Phonobet, old Alpha Betty’s twin,The set of all the sounds you use when waggling your chin.Phonobet is a modern-day, Australian answer to Dr Seuss’s ABC. This very clever rhyming text takes an onomatopoeic romp through the 44 phonemes of Australian (and British) Englis ...Show more
Paper-flower Girl by Margrete Lamond
26.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books
The Paper-flower Girl creates elaborate flowers out of paper, but she has few customers. When the Giant from the Hill brings her to work for him, they soon discover they want very different things. Before long, the Paper-flower Girl is forced to create things she no longer recognises as flowers. When th ...Show more
Grace and Mr Milligan by Caz Goodwin
15.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Grace lives next door to old Mr Milligan and his goat Charlie. They are the best of friends. But when Mr Milligan' s beloved goat dies, everything changes. Will Grace be able to help her friend overcome his sadness? Grace and Mr Milligan is a heart-warming story of grief, love and the healing power of f ...Show more
Country Town (HB) by Isolde Martyn, Robyn Ridgeway
29.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Age range 9 to 12 Happy times, sad times, boom times and gloom times! From the First Peoples camp at the river crossing in the 1820s through to Carols by Candlelight at the showground in today’s world, this is a decade by decade wonderfully illustrated story of a small country community.
Being Jimmy Baxter by Fiona Lloyd
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
A gently funny yet powerful coming-of-age middle grade novel about surviving the odds, unlikely friendships and the magical music of Elvis.It's not eggsactly easy being Jimmy Baxter 'cause- The real Jimmy's hiding inside Ned Kelly's giving him the evil eye Mum's stopped going to work and stays in bed Th ...Show more
A Hunger of Thorns by Lili Wilkinson
24.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: A Hunger of Thorns
Be swept up in this brilliant witchy tale about forbidden magic and missing girls who don't need handsome princes to rescue them. Perfect for fans of the Serpent; Dove series. Maude is the daughter of witches. She spent her childhood running wild with her best friend, Odette, weaving stories of girls wh ...Show more