Category: Picture Books
After stuffing themselves with treats in the pantry, six furry trespassers search for a place to sleep off their excesses. Can they avoid discovery and keep the gang together? Six Sleepy Mice is a fast-paced, fun rhyming tale of adventure and comradery, best read aloud.
Category: Picture Books
It's Festival time in Armidale, and everyone's getting floats and costumes ready for the big street parade. For the new family in town, it's even more exciting: for this is their first time to join in the colour and magic and fun!
Category: Picture Books
Grandma Poss is up to some of her old bush magic in this delightful cookbook for children and adults. With her band of enthusiastic helpers she makes all of the much-loved Australian delicacies: lamingtons, pavlova, pumpkin scones and Anzac biscuits plus many more. Julie Vivass illustrations sparkle wit ...Show more
Category: Picture Books
A simple, universal story of a day in the life of Little Bird as she sings the world alive, flies with Cloud, travels with Wind, nestles with Moon and dreams of flying among the stars. Sally’s beautiful words and Johnny’s sensitive artwork combine to make this a beautiful, distinctive public ...Show more
Category: Primary School Fiction
Have you ever wished you could fly? Well a boy called Icarus and his father built themselves wings out of feathers and wax. Up they flew into the huge blue sky. But it wasn't as easy as it looked! Here are eleven easy-to-read, exciting and funny plays for children by multi award-winning author Ursula Du ...Show more
Category: Picture Books
Lying in his bed one night, Liam woke up and saw a bright light. It shone through the window and Liam could see, that his room was lit up as bright as could be. Join Liam as he investigates the mysterious bright light, and his imagination lead him on an amazing adventure!
Category: Picture Books
The dry salt bed of Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre shimmers in the desert heat. But far up north, the rains have come. Water is flooding into empty riverbeds and swirling down towards the lake. Soon everything will change.A wonderful new addition to the acclaimed and award-winning Nature Storybook series, which ...Show more
Category: Picture Books
A heart-warming look at the busy days of working mothers and their preschool-aged children. It's early morning and everyone is arriving at the noisy childcare centre. Mum is going to work. "Bye, Mum." What do mums do at work? Are the children as busy as their mums?
Category: Picture Books
Sebastian is a pink fuzzy baby wombat. He doesn't have a mother to look after him, and so he lives in a woolly hat and is looked after by a human family. When he's big he might not need his hat any more, but for now it keeps him safe and warm.
Category: Picture Books
Lost in her ever-changing forms, `Water' questions who she is after an encounter with a creature in an underground cave. Water seeks all parts of her cycle for answers, which makes her feel overwhelmed and confused. However, an `old tree' helps her to understand her place in the world and her many inter ...Show more
Category: Primary School Fiction
The Australian colonies had come a long way since they were a dump for grim crims and convicts. Life was comfortableat least for some. But soon drought would send swaggies waltzing their matildas along the roads, and bad times would make politicians dream of uniting the country into one nation. And then ...Show more
Category: Picture Books
gatha's cousin Marie Antoinette has come to stay. She can speak two languages, has lovely manners and wears a stylish blue beret. Agatha thinks Marie Antoinette is perfect. So why does Agatha have a stormy feeling in her tummy? This is a story about overcoming jealousy and gaining empathy (because nobod ...Show more
