Australia's Wild Weird Wonderful Weather by Stephanie Owen Reeder; Tania Mccartney (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-Fiction
Age range 5+Did you know that, in 2009, a massive dust storm in Australia blew red dust and sand all the way to New Zealand, where it turned the glaciers pink? That, in 1899, Cyclone Mahina plucked dolphins out of the ocean in Far North Queensland and deposited them on cliff tops? That it snowed at Ulur ...Show more
Azaria: A True History by Maree Coote
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-Fiction
What happens when the truth gets lost? Where wild animals and people meet, tragedy can strike, But when a tiny baby is stolen by a dingo, people simply cannot accept such a thing. Prejudice and gossip grip the nation, and the tragedy transforms into a fight for the truth. How did it all go so wrong? Thi ...Show more
Dry to Dry: The Seasons of Kakadu (Nature Storybooks) by Pamela Freeman
$26.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Nature Storybooks
This Nature Storybook follow-up to the award-winning Desert Lake is a stunningly illustrated and extraordinary story of the yearly weather cycle and attendant changing wildlife of Kakadu National Park, from the Dry to the Wet to the Dry again. In the tropical wetlands and escarpments of Kakadu National ...Show more
Hold On!: Saving the Spotted Handfish by Gina M Newton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-Fiction
Age range 6 to 9 Have you ever seen a fish that could do a handstand?This is the story of a quirky and primitive little fish that is famous for two things: walking on its 'hands' (pectoral fins), and being the first marine fish anywhere in the word to be listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species ...Show more
Kookaburra by Claire Saxby
$26.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Nature Storybooks
DOWNLOAD CLASSROOM IDEAS An exciting new addition to the narrative nonfiction series Nature Storybooks, about kookaburras. In the crinkled shadows night-dwellers yawn, day-creatures stretch and Kookaburra laughs. Kook-kook-kook. Kak-kak-kak. The team behind Dingo is back again with a new addition to th ...Show more
Little Lon by Andrew Kelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Little Lon scrapes back the layers of history to show how people lived and worked in a post settlement Australian city. Behind the grand buildings of the big streets was Little Lon. A working-class district of little houses and narrow lanes, bursting with life and the stories of the people who lived the ...Show more
Matthew Flinders by Carole Wilkinson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-Fiction
Matthew Flinders was a country boy who wanted to be a sailor. He lived at a time when ocean voyages took months, sometimes years. His life at sea was full of adventure and danger. He was the first to sail all the way around Australia.He drew the first complete map of the continent. Sailing was a dangero ...Show more
Saltie Mumma by Sandra Kendell
$25.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Age range 5 to 9 Way up north in the Territory, scary creatures swim in the rivers and the sea. BIG enough, FIERCE enough to even eat me. Saltie Mumma is lurking, watchful, hungry, and cranky, but why is she so busy and what is she protecting?
Shirley Purdie: My Story, Ngaginybe Jarragbe by Shirley Purdie
$24.99 AUD
Category: PIC Indigenous Australia | Series: Kimberly Art Centre Ser.
Age range 0 to 9 I am Shirley Purdie This is my story Ngayin-ga Birrmarriyan-nga Berrembi jarragbe ngaginybe. My mother shows me how to get bushtucker and she shows me how to paint. Now I'm a famous artist. My paintings are all over the world hanging in important places. Happy times. Told in English a ...Show more
Strangers on Country by David Hartley, Kirsty Murray
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-Fiction
Age range 8+ Giom, Anco and Duramboi are the names of just three young shipwreck survivors and convict escapees who were given refuge by Indigenous communities during the nineteenth century. No one knows exactly how many received sustenance from the local people, but there are some documented accounts ...Show more
The Daddy Animal Book (Board) by Jennifer Cossins
$9.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Did you know that a daddy gorilla is called a silverback and a baby gorilla is called an infant? Or that a daddy turkey is called a gobbler and a baby turkey is called a poult? THE DADDY ANIMAL BOOK is an adorable and informative picture book about baby animals and their dads that is perfect for Father' ...Show more
The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Dangerous Animals by Sami Bayly
$32.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-Fiction | Series: The\Illustrated Encyclopaedia Ser.
Dangerous animals get a bad rap, but this beautifully illustrated encyclopaedia helps us appreciate the incredible features of some of our more hair-raising animal species. With more than sixty of the most deadly and dangerous animals from across the world to explore, every page of this beautifully illu ...Show more