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Baby Business (HB) by Jasmine Seymour
$24.99 AUD
Category: picture books | Reading Level: New Illustrator
Baby Business tells the story of the baby smoking ceremony that welcomes baby to country. The smoke is a blessing -- it will protect the baby and remind them that they belong. This beautiful ritual is recounted in a way young children will completely relate to. Jasmine Seymour is a Darug woman and a des ...Show more
Nop (HB) by Caroline Magerl
$26.99 AUD
Category: picture books | Reading Level: Picture Book
A heartwarming picture book from award-winning author-illustrator Caroline Magerl about two unlikely loners who forge a forever friendship. Nop is a scruffy kind of bear. He sits on a dusty armchair in Oddmint's Dumporeum surrounded by the beaders, knitters, patchers and stitchers who are much too busy ...Show more
The Good Son: A Story from the First World War, Told in Miniature (HB) by Pierre-Jacques Ober; Jules Ober (Illustrator); Felicity Coonan (Illustrator)
$34.99 AUD
Category: picture books | Reading Level: Picture Book
A young WWI soldier's unauthorized visit home has dire consequences in a haunting story reimagined in miniature tableaux. About one hundred years ago, the whole world went to war. The war was supposed to last months. It lasted years. It is Christmastime, 1914, and World War I rages. A young French s ...Show more
Cooee Mittigar: A Story on Darug Songlines (Darug & English) by Jasmine Seymour; Leanne Mulgo Watson (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: picture books | Reading Level: New Illustrator
Age range 5 to 12 'Warami mittigar. Hello friend. We welcome you to Darug Country.' Cooee Mittigar, meaning Come Here Friend, is an invitation to yana (walk), on Darug Country. In this stunning picture book, Darug creators Jasmine Seymour and Leanne Mulgo Watson tell a story on Darug Songlines, introdu ...Show more
Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle
$29.99 AUD
Category: picture books | Reading Level: Eve Pownall Award
Luminous images, accompanied by newspaper extracts dating back to the early 1800s and words by Ngiyampaa Elder, Peter Williams, explore the ongoing mystery of yahoo encounters. 'He was surprised to observe a hairy human form, about seven feet in height, walking in the bush.' Queanbeyan Age, 24 August 18 ...Show more
Goodbye House, Hello House by Margaret Wild
$24.99 AUD
Category: picture books | Reading Level: Early Childhood
A joyful story about moving house and embracing change from a much-loved, award-winning team. This is the last time I'll fish in this river. This is the last time I'll run through these trees. This is the last time I'll dream by this fire ... Goodbye, old house. Goodbye. A heartwarming story of letti ...Show more
I NEED a Parrot (PB) by Chris McKimmie
$16.95 AUD
Category: picture books | Reading Level: Picture Book
But what does a parrot need?A book about wanting and needing what a child wants and what a wild bird needs.
Wilam: A Birrarung Story by Aunty Joy Murphy Aunty Joy; Andrew Kelly Andrew; Lisa Kennedy Lisa
$24.99 AUD
Category: picture books | Reading Level: Eve Pownall Award
Wilam: A Birrarung Story is one day on a vital, flourishing river. As ngua rises, Bunjil soars over mountain ash, flying higher and higher as the wind warms. Below, Birrarung begins its long winding path down to palem warreen. Wilam – home. Yarra Riverkeeper Andrew Kelly joins award-winning picture book ...Show more
Louie and Snippy Save the Sea (HB) by Collette Dinnigan
$24.99 AUD
Category: picture books | Reading Level: New Illustrator
Louie and Snippy: Save the Sea is a story of a little boy whose love of the ocean takes him, and the reader, on an incredible underwater journey. Louie and his trusty companion, Snippy the dog, dive into the ocean and are surrounded by brilliant coral reefs. But they soon discover that human rubbish - b ...Show more
Fly by Jess McGeachin; Jess McGeachin (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: picture books | Reading Level: New Illustrator
Lucy had always been good at fixing things, and Dad needed a bit of help. It was just the two of them after all. So when Lucy finds a bird with a broken wing, she's sure she can fix him too. But not everything that's broken can be fixed.
Catch a Falling Star by Meg McKinlay
$17.99 AUD
Category: middle reader | Reading Level: Younger Readers
This coming-of-age story by multiple-award-winner Meg McKinlay is about loss and grief, dealing with change and fighting to hold on to what you can, while letting go of what you can't. It's 1979 and the sky is falling. Skylab, that is. Somewhere high above Frankie Avery, one of the world's first space s ...Show more
My Friend Fred by Frances Watts
$19.99 AUD
Category: picture books | Reading Level: Early Childhood
A delightful picture book about a friendship between an exuberant but loveable dachshund and his more retiring, tidy housemate.