Country Town by Isolde Martyn, Robyn Ridgeway
$19.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Age range 9 to 12Happy 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.
Eat My Dust! by Neridah McMullin
$26.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
The amazing true story of Jean Robertson and Kathleen Howell, who helped map Australia. In 1928, girls don't drive cars, let alone race them, until two fearless and intrepid best friends make history, racing across Australia and beating the land speed record ... with Barney the dog in tow!
How We Came to Be: Creatures of Camouflage and Mimicry by Sami Bayly
$19.99 AUD
Category: Education
Discover the secrets behind some of the natural world's most unusual creatures of camouflage and mimicry. Find out about the chameleon who changes colour to communicate with its friends, the burrowing owl who copies the sound of a fiercer animal to protect itself from threats, and the harlequin filefish ...Show more
Songlines: First Knowledges for younger readers by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: First Nations Non-Fiction | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
How do you find your way around, get your food and drink, connect with your friends and family? How do you know the right and safe way to do things, or how to make things? Before the white people came to the continent, all Australian Aboriginal people knew how to do all these things - and much, much mor ...Show more
The Forgotten Song: Saving the Regent Honeyeater by Coral Vass
$24.99 AUD
Category: Education
The song of the regent honeyeater has been heard in the bush for many generations — but could it soon be lost forever? Regent’s father had learnt the song from his father, who learnt it from his father too. But with Regent’s species now facing extinction, there is no one around to teach him. Regent trie ...Show more
This Book Thinks Ya Deadly!: A Celebration of Blak Excellence by Corey Tutt
$34.99 AUD
Category: First Nations Non-Fiction
This Book Thinks Ya Deadly! is an inspirational, illustrated compendium that celebrates the diversity and success of First Nations People. Written by Corey Tutt, author of The First Scientists, this book features the profiles of 80 Blakfellas who are doing deadly things across sport, art, activism and s ...Show more
Universal Guide to the Night Sky by Lisa Harvey-Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Education | Series: Universal Guide Ser.
Wherever you are in this world - whether that be in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere, in the city or a remote region - this book guides you through the remarkable features of planet Earth's starry sky. Receive a personal tour through the wonders of the universe from astrophysicist Lisa Harvey-Smith. ...Show more
Wildlife Compendium of the World: Awe-inspiring Animals from Every Continent by Tania McCartney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Education
From amphibians and reptiles to monotremes and pilosa, discover our world of enchanting fauna in this stunning, illustrated book, Wildlife Compendium of the World by Tania McCartney. Divided by continent, and with a handy map opener, you can explore some of the wildest, weirdest and cutest animals tha ...Show more
Wildlife of Australia's Great Barrier Reef by Myke Mollard
$29.99 AUD
Category: Education
Myke Mollard's signature illustrations and engaging text bring kids up close and personal with hundreds of the creatures found on Australia's Great Barrier Reef: corals, fish including sharks, turtles and other marine reptiles, whales and dolphins, birds, molluscs, crustaceans, even the animals found on ...Show more
Eww Gross: Foul Facts and Putrid Pictures by Dan Marshall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-Fiction
Did you know your kitchen is dirtier than your toilet seat? Or that there is a mound of poo bigger than the Statue of Liberty? And that there is a parasitic fungus that turns ants in zombies? This is a disgustingly wonderful guide to all things yuck, filled to the brim with facts and activities that wil ...Show more
Last Man Out: A personal account of the Gallipoli Evacuation by Louise Park
$24.99 AUD
Category: Education
The evacuation from Gallipoli of Australian and New Zealand troops was a logistically incredible undertaking. The exhausted young men were to slip away by ship in the dead of night. But… Someone needed to remain behind to cover for their fellow soldiers. This was a mission that almost certainly meant de ...Show more
River to Bay: Victoria's Maritime History by Carole Wilkinson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Kulin Nation country is abundant with waterways essential to the way the traditional owners have lived for more than 40,000 years. Those same crucial waterways are where the first ships of European settlers found safe harbour in their trips of exploration. What they found would determine the developmen ...Show more