Jackie French

Hitler's Daughter
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207198014
RRP: $14.95

The bombs were falling and the smoke rising from the concentration camps, but all Hitler's daughter knew was the world of lessons with Fraulein Gelber and the hedgehogs she rescued from the cold. Was it just a story or did Hitler's daughter really exist? And If you were Hitler's daughter, would all the horror that occurred be your fault, too? Do things that happened a long time ago st...

Pennies For Hitler
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732292096
RRP: $15.99

It's 1939, and for Georg, son of an English academic living in Germany, life is full of cream cakes and loving parents. It is also a time when his teacher measures the pupils' heads to see which of them have the most 'Aryan'- shaped heads. But when a university graduation ceremony turns into a pro-Nazi demonstration, Georg is smuggled out of Germany to war-torn London and then acr...

Animal Rescue 03: Tiger Tangle
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781742833835
RRP: $9.99

Glam Rock is a famous pop star who performs with his tame tiger at his side. But Leo can sense something is wrong Glam hasn't been telling the truth about his tiger, and Leo can read her terror and despair . . . she's crying out for help. Can Leo and Mozz rescue a tormented tiger from Glam's huge property, despite guards, fans and TV cameras? Can the tiger ever be free? Find out in th...

Queen Victoria's Underpants
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732288235
RRP: $14.99

Meet Lizzy, whose family are in the clothing industry. Very few people probably know that Queen Victoria made the wearing of underpants popular. At the beginning of her reign very few women wore them. But Queen Victoria made tartans, perambulators and chloroform fashionable. By the time she died just about every woman in Britain wore underpants like hers. Ages: 4+...

A Day to Remember
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780732293604
RRP: $24.99

Anzac Day is the day when we remember and honour Anzac traditions down the ages, from the first faltering march of wounded veterans in 1916 to the ever-increasing numbers of their descendants who march today. Containing reference to the many places the ANZACs have fought, and the various ways in which they keep the peace and support the civilians in war-torn parts of the world today, this is a ...

Animal Rescue 01: Elephant Alert
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741698480
RRP: $5.00

Leo thinks he's an ordinary kid, but he isn't-he can talk to animals and his best friend's a guinea pig! Mozz knows she's anything but ordinary. She's cool and clever, lives in a mansion with her mad scientist grandmother, and she soars through the sky in a rocket-the SkyTiger-saving wild animals around the world! Together, with the SkyTiger ready to take off, Leo and Mozz make...

Animla Rescue 02: Gorilla Grab
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741698497
RRP: $9.99

Mozz and Leo take off in the SkyTiger with a load of vaccine darts to inoculate and protect the gorillas in Africa. But before they can locate all the secluded groups of primates and decide what to do with a seriously sick gorilla, they must deal with ruthless poachers. ...

Christmas Wombat
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780732291716
RRP: $24.99

Christmas comes but once a year, and it's just as well for Santa's reindeer, who have to fight with Mothball for the carrots left out for them by the local children. And when Mothball takes an unexpected sleigh ride, it's not just Santa who faces the prospect of getting stuck in the chimney. Christmas from a wombat's eye view is always going to be interesting - especially when th...

Flood
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781742830728
RRP: $16.99

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Nanberry: Black Brother White
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732290221
RRP: $16.99

It's 1789, and as the new colony in Sydney Cove is established, Surgeon John White defies convention and adopts Nanberry, an Aboriginal boy, to raise as his son. Nanberry is clever and uses his unique gifts as an interpreter to bridge the two worlds he lives in. With his white brother, Andrew, he witnesses the struggles of the colonists to keep their precarious grip on a hostile wilderness. An...

The Tomorrow Book
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732289409
RRP: $14.99

A timely picture book about a young prince who is determined to rule over a country where the future is filled with environmental hope - and practical solutions, such as common usage of solar and wind power. Lively, fun and positive, this book serves to give young people information about their world and shows them that a lot of environmental solutions are simple and relatively easy to put in pl...

Fair Dinkum Histories #8: Booms, Busts and Bushfires
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741697865
RRP: $15.99

Telling it like it really was true-blue Aussie history! Australia had changed before, but slowly. Now everything was fast! Attitudes were evolving, technology was changing every aspect of life, and people were starting to recognise the damage we were doing to our land and the way Australia's Indigenous people had been mistreated. Our resources had made us a rich country, but how long could the...

A Waltz for Matilda
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732290214
RRP: $19.99

In 1894 twelve-year-old Matilda flees the city slums to find her unknown father and his farm. But as drought bites deep her father has turned swaggie, member of the Shearers' Union. He's wanted by the troopers for burning down a shearing shed, and his daughter has to watch as the terrifying events by the billabong unfold. You'll never take me alive, said he. With the enigmatic...

Shaggy Gully Times
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732284114
RRP: $16.99

Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a wombat, a sheep and a dancing kangaroo - And they're on the front page of The Shaggy Gully Times! The small bush town of Shaggy Gully is home to many animals, including local celebrities Mothball, Pete and Josephine. Pete the Sheep runs a successful hairdressing salon and Josephine is a renowned ballerina. Mothball is editor...

Animal Stars 05: The Horse Who Bit a Bushranger
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732289287
RRP: $14.99

A story of survival, second chances ... and a dance with danger. Young Billy Marks is a pickpocket, transported to the penal colony of New South Wales. He and his mate reckon they'll become bushrangers- but that's before Billy's had a chance to see the bush up close. And when he buys the big white brumby stallion, covered with scars but refusing to bend to any man's will, he knows...

Oracle
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732288402
RRP: $16.99

Nikko lives in a small farming village in Greece near the stronghold of Mycenae in 1200 BC. When his sister Thetis is born, Nikko rescues her from the hillside where she has been abandoned, setting off an unforeseen chain of events. Thetis survives the trauma of her birth but is rendered mute until the age of five, when the gift of speech is given to her; but she can only tell the truth, which s...

Fair Dinkum Histories 07: Rockin', Rollin', Hair and Hippies
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741695441
RRP: $16.99

Illustrated by Peter Sheehan. World War II was over, and it was a good time to be Australian. Rock 'n' roll, television and the Olympics had come down under. But underneath it all was the menace of the Cold War, and then came the horrors of Korea and Vietnam. Why couldn't we all just get along? Covers a pivotal time in Australia's history, as ideologies clashed and a new national ...

Queen Victoria's Underpants
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780732288228
RRP: $24.99

Illustrated by Bruce Whatley. Meet Lizzy, whose family are in the clothing industry. Very few people probably know that Queen Victoria made the wearing of underpants popular. At the beginning of her reign very few women wore them. But Queen Victoria made tartans, perambulators and chloroform fashionable. By the time she died just about every woman in Britain wore underpants like hers. Ages: 4+...

Josephine Wants To Dance
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207200809
RRP: $14.99

Illustrated by Bruce Whatley. From the award-winning duo of Diary of a Wombat comes another hilarious tale of a bush animal you'll never forget. Josephine is a kangaroo - who loves to dance. Her little brother, Joey, tells her that kangaroos don't dance, they hop - but Josephine continues to point her toes and leap through the air. When a ballet troupe comes to town and both the lead ba...

Year in the Valley: Seasons of Content
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732290641
RRP: $27.99

Year in the Valley is the lovely, new and updated version of widely acclaimed author Jackie French's journal of a year in the life of the Araluen Valley in the beautiful Southern Highlands of NSW. It's a combination of many stories - foxes in the autumn and the first of the asparagus, dashes to the school bus in the mornings and sleepy lizard nibbling Christmas pudding leftovers on hot ro...

School for Heroes 02: Dance of the Deadly Dinosaurs
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732285425
RRP: $16.99

Boojum Bark is a werewolf and a student at the School for Heroes, where lessons include learning how to wham! Bam! Powie! your enemy into submission. And if that doesn't work, a bit of zombie spaghetti combat might finish the job. When Boo's mother is kidnapped by the Greedle - the most evil bogey in the known universes - Boo needs the help of his friends to find her. Like Boo, his frie...

Tomorrow Book
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780732289393
RRP: $24.99

Illustrated by Sue Degennaro. A timely picture book about a young prince who is determined to rule over a country where the future is filled with environmental hope - and practical solutions, such as common usage of solar and wind power. Lively, fun and positive, this book serves to give young people information about their world and shows them that a lot of environmental solutions are simple an...

Baby Wombat's Week
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780732286941
RRP: $24.99

Illustrated by Bruce Whatley. The star of the international bestseller Diary of a Wombat is back - with a new mouth to feed! Cuter stroppier and even more determined than her mother ... meet Mothball's baby. Like any growing family this baby wombat and her mum are finding it hard to fit into their home. When setting out to dig a new bigger hole with room for them both Shaggy Gully's...

Night They Stormed Eureka
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732285418
RRP: $15.99

It's 1854 and the Ballarat goldfields are a place of dreams and rebellion as Sam a homeless teenager is called back to the past to join the Puddlehams who run 'the best little cook shop on the diggings'. The Puddlehams dream of buying a hotel with velvet seats while others dream of freedom from the British crown away from the rule of wealthy landowners and corrupt officials. On...

School For Heroes 01: Lessons for a Werewolf Warrior
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207200762
RRP: $16.99

Boojum Bark is a werewolf - and a hero. He doesn't really want to be a hero but it's in the family. Now he has to go to Hero School to learn the Right Way to achieve hero status. Werewolves are at the bottom of the pecking order when it comes to heroes - especially when they lift their legs on the doorpost and do outrageous things on stage in the middle of school assembly. But something...

Mates: The Wombat and the Grand Poohjam
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781862918092
RRP: $10.99

Illustrated by Andrew Marlton. The Grand Poohjam of Stink'um knows exactly how to make kids do as they are told-that is, before the Princess of O'Straylia arrives in his court with her pet wombat. He thinks he's going to make mincemeat of the Princess, but he has another think coming! It's going to take more than a bed with silk cushions, a huge marble bath and a big-screen TV to ...

Donkey Who Carried the Wounded
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732288396
RRP: $14.99

Based on the famous story of Simpson and his Donkey - this book examines the remarkable life of the man and the donkey who become a legend at Gallipoli even among the Turkish forces. The donkey named Duffy was found grazing in a gully by Simpson ex-trade union campaigner and a stretcher bearer. But in the hell that was Gallipoli there weren't enough stretchers for all the wounded and Simpso...

Fair Dinkum Histories: Gold Graves and Glory
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741693164
RRP: $15.99

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Fair Dinkum Histories: Grim Crims and Convicts
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781741693140
RRP: $16.99

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Fair Dinkum Histories: Nation of Swaggies and Diggers
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741693171
RRP: $15.99

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Fair Dinkum Histories: Rotters and Squatters
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741693157
RRP: $15.99

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Fair Dinkum Histories: Shipwreck, Sailors and Sixty Thousand
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781741693133
RRP: $15.99

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Wonderfully Wacky Families, 4 books in 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732287467
RRP: $19.99

Illustrated by Stephen Michael King. So you think your family is wacky? Wait till you read these stories... How can Buster solve the disappearance of his werewolf parents when Uncle Wal keeps bugging him to act like a human all the time? What would TJ's friends say if they knew his gran was a gorilla? Is Drackie's Auntie Chook really a vampire chicken? And what will Fuzz do when his Pa m...

Emily and the Big Bad Bunyip
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780732286927
RRP: $14.99

Illustrated by Bruce Whatley. It's Christmas Day in Shaggy Gully. The kangaroos are feeling bouncy, the echidnas are being prickly, the emus are feeling peckish and the possums are just hanging around. Only the Bunyip is gloomy. 'I'm mad and I'm mean! Bunyips don't like Christmas!' Meanwhile, Dawn and her chorus are playing Christmas carols, but somehow Emily Emu can...

The Animal Stars 3: The Camel Who Crossed Australia
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732285432
RRP: $14.99

The story of the famous Burke and Wills expedition ... as it has never been told before The humans called him 'Bell Sing', but to the other camels he is known as 'He Who Spits Further Than the Wind'. Transported from the mountains and deserts of the 'Northwest Frontier' (present day Pakistan and Afghanistan), Bell Sing accompanies explorers Burke and Wills as they try to ...

How High Can A Kangaroo Hop?
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732285449
RRP: $14.99

Why does Australia have animals that are so different from others anywhere else in the world? Why do 'roos and wallabies have such big tummies? Who were the kangaroos with fangs that lived 10 million years ago? What's the best way to become invisible (to kangaroos, at any rate)? Which wallaby is a 'living fossil' the same as the wallabies that grazed 10 million years ago? ...

The Secret World Of Wombats
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207200311
RRP: $14.95

Companion non-fiction title for the bestselling 'Diary Of A Wombat'. A non-fiction book that explores everything you've ever wanted to know about wombats. Jackie French loves wombats. She's been living with and studying them for over 30 years, and they have been featured characters in many of her books. Now her beloved wombats take centre stage, as Jackie reveals everything y...

A Rose For The Anzac Boys
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732285401
RRP: $15.99

The 'War to end all Wars', as seen through the eyes of three young women It is 1915. War is being fought on a horrific scale in the trenches of France, but it might as well be a world away from sixteen year old New Zealander Midge Macpherson, at school in England learning to be a young lady. But the war is coming closer: Midge's brothers are in the army, and her twin, Tim, is listed a...

Fair Dinkum Histories 05: A Nation Of Swaggies And Diggers
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741690767
RRP: $16.99

The Australian colonies had come a long way since they were a dump for grim crims and convicts. Life was comfortable-at 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 a far-off war would create a different kind of digger. What they brought back home would make ...

One Big Wacky Family
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732287450
RRP: $19.99

Meet some very unusual family members. Cecil's Mum wears long black boots and carries a sword; Gunk's dog Spot loves lettuce and seems to be growing awfully big, awfully fast; Horace's Dad has silver wings and a green and orange tail; and Tom's family circle includes a Senior Bogeyman, a Tooth Fairy's assistant and a large and hairy best friend called Mog. Fortunately for Tom...

Shaggy Gully Times: The Funniest Newspaper You'll Ever Read
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780732284107
RRP: $24.99

Illustrations by Bruce Whatley. Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a wombat, a sheep and a dancing kangaroo And they're on the front page of The Shaggy Gully Times! The small bush town of Shaggy Gully is home to many animals, including local celebrities Mothball, Pete and Josephine. Pete the Sheep runs a successful hairdressing salon and Josephine is a renown...

Animal Stars 02: The Dog Who Loved A Queen
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732285081
RRP: $14.99

Book 2 in the Animal Stars series -- where history comes alive through the eyes of special animals. To outsiders, Mary is a queen and a threat, but to her devoted dog Folly, she is his world. To the world outside her luxurious prison, Mary Queen of Scots is either a shameless beauty who killed her husband, or the rightful queen of England and Scotland, tragically held captive by Elizabeth the Fir...

Fair Dinkum Histories 04: Gold, Graves And Glory
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781865049731
RRP: $16.99

For 60,000 years the rest of the world had pretty much left Australia and its Aboriginal nations alone. Then it became a home for Britain's criminals and poor. Now a con man had found gold and suddenly everyone was heading to Australia: adventurers, revolutionaries, camels... Australia would never be the same again. Join the heroes and villains of the past as they hunt for nuggets, struggle a...

Pharaoh
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207200823
RRP: $15.99

A tale of travel and emotional journeys set against the exotic civilisation of Egypt before the time of the Pharaohs. Prince Narmer is fourteen and, as his father's favourite, destined to be King. Despite his father's warnings, Narmer loves to go hunting alone and one day he meets an 'oracle' not far from his home in Thisis. Although he doesn't realise at the time, this is a...

Fair Dinkum Histories 3: Rotters And Squatters
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781865049304
RRP: $14.99

'Rotters And Squatters' charts the transition from penal settlement to sustainable 'free' colonies. It begins with the arrival of Governor Brisbane and the implementation of the Bigge Report, and ends in the year before the beginning of the gold rush. ...

The Animal Stars 1: The Goat Who Sailed The World
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207200779
RRP: $14.99

Captain Cook's goat is the first of many historical animals to bring the past to life. This is the first book in the Animal Stars series. Each book in this series is a factual narrative about a real animal associated with an important person in history. 'The Goat Who Sailed The World' is about Captain Cook's goat - a goat that had already sailed around the world before it went on...

Dark Wind Blowing
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207197963
RRP: $16.95

Mike is just like any other normal kid - he lives with his mum in an ordinary house, in a small town, where nothing unusual ever happens. His next-door neighbour is Lance Loosley, a boy who's known at school as "Loser" because he's so unpopular. Loser tells Mike that "Tenterfield" - the old property nearby, which was recently bought by some foreign investors is being used...

Wacky Families: My Auntie Chook The Vampire Chicken
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207200793
RRP: $11.95

DRACKIE IS THE HAPPIEST VAMPIRE ON THE ISLAND. He has his best friend, Cousin Snot, who has the longest fangs and the blackest hair and fingernails of any kid on Vampire Island. He also has a six-hundred-year-old zombie servant called Plop. And he even has his very own pet vampire toad, Fang, who shares Drackie's chocolate bloodshakes and is allowed to sleep in Drackie's coffin during the ...

Fair Dinkum Histories 2: Shipwreck, Sailors & 60,000 Years
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781865048703
RRP: $14.99

In 1493 the Pope gave Portugal the half of the world that included eastern Australia. By 1770 the Dutch had claimed the western, northern and southern coastlines of the continent - and Cook claimed the east coast for the British in 1770. But unlike the Europeans who claimed New Holland as their own, many nations of Indigenous people had already been living there for tens of thousands of years &#...

Macbeth And Son
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207200342
RRP: $15.95

Luke lives in modern-day Australia with his mother and stepfather, Sam. Luke is burdened by a guilty secret: Sam has helped him to cheat in an entrance exam for a prestigious school. Lulach lives in eleventh-century Scotland with his mother and stepfather, Macbeth, who becomes a great king and restores peace to the land. Luke is studying Shakespeare's play Macbeth at school and dreams about...

Walking The Boundaries
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207200434
RRP: $14.95

What does it mean to own the land? A story of friendship, adventure and the past. Martin lives in the city with his mum. He's come to walk the boundaries of the farm that's been in his family for generations. It sounds easy, especially as he'll own the land when he gets back. Martin's great-grandfather, Ted, doesn't even want him to walk around the farm's fences, just up ...

Too Many Pears
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780864616678
RRP: $13.99

Illustrated by Bruce Whatley Pamela the cow absolutely loves pears fresh pears, pear pie, stewed pears, any pears they are all irresistible to Pamela. Finally it takes a clever little girl to convince Pamela that there is more to life than pears Ages: 2+...

Wacky Families: My Gran The Gorilla
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207200120
RRP: $11.95

We've all got wacky families, it's just that some are wackier than others - find out just how wacky some families can be in the sixth book of this hilarious series. It's great having a gorilla for a gran, but there's just one little problem . . . and HER name is Linda! When TJ's parents attend a banana conference, leaving TJ and Egbert behind in Gobbledegook, Gran is left in ...

Fair Dinkum Histories 01: Grim Crims And Convicts
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781865048710
RRP: $16.99

It was an incredible idea - to found a colony of convicts eight months' sail away from Great Britain. In a land with no cities, no farms, no rich spices. Just slaves in huts. The Dutch, the French and the Portuguese had known about this place for two hundred years - and had turned their noses up at it. The Chinese had known about it for even longer and they weren't interested either. No c...

My Uncle Wal The Werewolf
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207200137
RRP: $11.95

We've all got wacky families, it's just that some are wackier than others - find out how wacky in the fifth book of this hilarious series. Buster's parents have vanished! One day they'd been there at breakfast, chewing their bones. And then, they'd gone out for a walk and never returned. Now, Uncle Wal is in charge of the werewolf pack and Buster is not happy. Since their ...

They Came On Viking Ships
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207200113
RRP: $15.95

This is the story of a Scottish wolfhound called Snarf and his owner, Hekja, whose simple but happy lives change unrecognisably when their village is raided by Vikings. As a puppy, Snarf is fortuitously rescued by a young girl called Hekja when he is badly injured. Both are then captured by raiding Vikings and transported to 'Vinland' with Freydis Ericsdottir, half-sister of Leif Ericson...

Phredde And The Temple Of Gloom
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207200267
RRP: $12.95

Prudence is invited by her father's distant werewolf cousins to their gloomy castle to hunt for some missing 'treasure'. Phredde and Bruce accompany Prudence, who is well aware that if she fails then her father will have to take her place. The zombie librarian also makes a reappearance, as does the castle banshee, and Cousin Flea decides that he wants to be a lighting and sound techn...

War For Gentlemen
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732277765
RRP: $22.95

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Rocket Your Child Into Reading
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207199264
RRP: $19.95

The book every parent and teacher should own. Written in Jackie French's inimitable style, one of the aims of this book is to help parents and teachers identify children's reading difficulties and then suggest ways to deal with them. The book is full of useful and practical solutions, rather than long, dense paragraphs dripping with educational theory and difficult words that are hard to...

To The Moon And Back
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207200090
RRP: $14.95

When man took the first step on the moon it was a bunch of Australian technicians who tracked the spacecraft and sent the first television pictures to the world. No, not at Parkes - the movie 'The Dish' got it wrong. They were from Honeysuckle Creek in the ACT. This is their story, told by Bryan Sullivan, one of the technicians on duty at the time, and his wife, children's author Jacki...

Wacky Families 4: My Uncle Gus The Garden Gnome
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207199585
RRP: $11.95

We've all got wacky families, it's just that some are wackier than others - find out how wacky in the fourth book of this hilarious series. Tom has the happiest family around. Dad is Senior Bogeyman for the entire east coast and Mum is First Assistant Tooth Fairy. Only Uncle Gus feels a professional failure - he's just a garden gnome. But when the Most Powerful Witch in the World pu...

Tom Appleby, Convict Boy
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207199424
RRP: $14.95

A story of transportation and life in a new world. At the tender age of eight, chimney sweep Tom Appleby is convicted of stealing and sentenced to deportation to Botany Bay. As one of the members of the First Fleet, he arrives in a country that seemingly has little to offer - or little that the English are used to, anyway. Luckily, not long after Tom's arrival in the colony, the fair and ki...

Outlands 3: Flesh And Blood
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207198878
RRP: $15.95

Sequel to 'In The Blood' and 'Blood Moon', this is the thrilling finale to the 'Outlands' trilogy. The City has called on Danielle Forest, Virtual Engineer, to find the source of a new influenza epidemic that is infecting the City and threatening the Outlands. The disease partially kills, and those affected become zombies intent on killing all around them. If the epidemic...

A Story To Eat With A Banana: A Phaery Named Phredde
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207200007
RRP: $12.95

Beautiful new editions of popular titles that will entice a whole new generation of readers to the exploits of Phredde and her friends. Meet Phredde, the coolest phaery in the universe. Phredde is tiny, ferocious and Pru's best friend. And with Pru's brother turning into a werewolf, Pru needs all the magic help she can get!...

A Story To Eat With A Blood Plum: Phredde And The Zombie Librarian
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207200021
RRP: $12.95

Beautiful new editions of popular titles that will entice a whole new generation of readers to the exploits of Phredde and her friends. There's a grey-flesh zombie librarian tending her blood-starved books in the school library . . . and a 5,000-year-old Egyptian mummy roaming the corridors. Can Phredde and Pru escape?...

A Story To Eat With A Passionfruit: Phredde And The Purple Pyramid
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207199349
RRP: $12.95

Phredde, Pru and Bruce are back and this time they're in ancient Egypt. Will the pyramids survive? Instead of just roaring like all volcanoes that are school bells do, it erupts and a tunnel opens. Phredde, Pru and Bruce can't help but enter the tunnel, magic at the ready, for a new adventure. It seems Fluffy, Queen of the Nile, has sent this time tunnel to seek out a brave and brillia...

Too Many Pears!
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780864614605
RRP: $24.99

Pamela (the cow) loves pears! Fresh pears, pear pie, stewed pears - greedy Pamela finds this fruit simply irresistible in any form. Finally a clever little girl comes up with a way of controlling the naughty cow's addiction!...

Wacky Families 1: My Mum The Pirate
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207199493
RRP: $11.95

Illustrated by Stephen Michael King. Whoever said having a pirate for a mum was fun? Cecil's mum wears long black boots and an even longer sword, and she makes her enemies walk the plank. Putrid Percival serves sea monster soup for dinner when Cecil would rather eat pizza. And Filthy Frederick stinks - but hey, he's good at maths, and nobody's perfect! Cecil gets seasick and all he...

Daughter Of The Regiment
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207196744
RRP: $14.95

Who is the girl through the hole in the chookhouse? Is it really a hole in time? And how can you help someone who lived more than 150 years ago . . . Harry dreads leaving the farm to go to boarding school next year. Cissie is an orphaned girl living with the soldiers at the garrison 150 years ago. Something more powerful than time has drawn them both together. The Children's Book Council...

Somewhere Around The Corner
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207183591
RRP: $16.95

The demonstration was wild, out of control. Barbara was scared. She saw the policeman running towards her. She needed to escape. She closed her eyes and did precisely that: she walked somewhere around the corner . . . into another demonstration . . . another time. Barbara was lucky - she met Young Jim who took her out of the strange, frightening city to his home. It was 1932, when Australia...

The Soldier On The Hill
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207196379
RRP: $16.95

Joey knows there is a Japanese soldier hiding in the hills. It was a Japanese man, a soldier, who hauled him out of the mine shaft, who lit the fire to bring the searchers, and then disappeared. But nobody believes Joey. After all, it is World War II and children have nightmares . . . Joey knows he will have to find the soldier himself . . . he must find him . . . could he be part of an invasi...

Diary Of A Wombat
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780207199950
RRP: $24.95

Illustrated by Bruce Whatley. A delightful and entertaining peek into the life of one very busy wombat! Monday Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate. Scratched. Night: Ate. A typical day. Don't be fooled. This wombat leads a very busy and demanding life. She wrestles unknown creatures, runs her own digging business, and most difficult of all - trains her humans. She teaches them wh...

Big Burps, Bare Bums And Other Bad-Mannered Blunders
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207198540
RRP: $14.95

365 Tips On How to Behave Nicely. Good manners, terrible manners and all manner of manners. This book covers manners for all situations: kissing; dobbing; introductions; and eating. It also includes very important etiquette procedures for dealing with vampires, aliens, friends, zombies and more. All of this is delivered in a straightforward but hilarious problem and answer format. Problem: My...

Valley Of Gold
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207199882
RRP: $14.95

One valley's stories of gold through the ages, from the beginning of the earth 4 billion years ago, through the valley's creation and the history of its alluring deposits. Interspersed with historical and geological information are stories that bring to life the valley and its occupants. First, around 35,000 BC, we meet Mirrigan, a young Aboriginal man hunting the last of the mainland th...

A Story To Eat With A Dinosaur Apple: Phredde And The Leopard-Skin Lion
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207199561
RRP: $12.95

What do you do when your school librarian starts dressing in leopard-skin and goes off chasing dinosaurs? A school excursion to the Big Koala goes horribly wrong when Phredde, Pru and Bruce - and their vampire teacher Mrs Olsen, and Miss Richards, librarian and martial arts expert - head back into the time of the dinosaurs, not to mention giant marsupial lions, a dinosaur with diarrhoea and an e...

The White Ship
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207197987
RRP: $14.95

In the vein of Jackie French's historical fiction, 'Lady Dance' and 'How The Finnegans Saved The Ship', here is a thought-provoking and controversial story that examines religious persecution and refugees. A timely book that includes teaching notes. 'You only saw the ship at sunset, and then only on the best of days, the sun-drenched days, when light faded into black and l...

Ride The Wild Wind
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207198304
RRP: $14.95

'The Golden Pony' and Other Stories. Five beautiful stories about horses and children . . . and about the jobs horses do for humans. From the pen of one of Australia's most respected and loved children's writers comes a collection of stories about horses and even stories from the horse's mouth! There is a story about the first horse to be tamed thousands of years ago by a yo...

Dancing With Ben Hall And Other Yarns
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207187476
RRP: $14.95

A collection of stories of the bush and stories of the past for young readers. These stories take you travelling down a road filled with tales of adventure, shipwreck and a ghostly encounter; a road filled with the songs of life and landscape. You'll love meeting the colourful characters in these pages; from Ben Hall and his gang to the inventive cunning of Moriarty the wombat . . . and lot...

The Secret Life Of Santa Claus: The Ultimate Christmas Survival Guide
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732271237
RRP: $14.95

It's Christmas! Jackie French reveals the intimate secrets of life at the North Pole! Rudolph wants cosmetic surgery, the North Pole computer system has crashed, Blitzen Blitzen-Dottir is plotting revolution and Santa Claus feels that blizzards just aren't what they used to be. 'The Secret Life Of Santa Claus' is Jackie French's indispensable guide to surviving Christmas - h...

How The Finnegans Saved The Ship
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207197499
RRP: $14.95

Mrs Finnegan and her seven children have to leave Ireland and join Mr Finnegan in Australia. They board a ship which doesn't look as if it can move from the harbour and the Finnegans are nervous . . . it is the year after the Titanic sank, after all. Mrs Finnegan is busy saving the ship from whales and other possible disasters. But as they sail around the tip of Africa, an iceberg looms out...

Stamp, Stomp, Whomp
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207197857
RRP: $14.95

And Other Interesting Ways To Get Rid Of Pests A companion to 'How To Guzzle Your Garden', this book will help children discover ways of killing or getting rid of those pests that want to eat all the plants and not leave any for the gardener, or pests that just eat all the flowers, leaves, and stalks so that the plant dies anyway. Children, parents and teachers will all love this book an...

The Best Of Jackie French
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732265519
RRP: $29.99

A Practical Guide to Everything from Aphids to Zucchini Chocolate Cake Over years of thoughtful and inventive gardening, Jackie French, one of Australia's best-loved gardening personalities, has discovered the secret to combining fun and usefulness in your garden. The leader of the gardening pack, with her depth of botanical knowledge, passion for organics and self-sufficiency, her sense of...

The Book Of Challenges
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207197468
RRP: $13.95

Are you ever BORED?? Best-loved author Jackie French has put together a stack of great things to do in The Book of Challenges. There is something for everyone! Try hang-gliding Publish a book on the internet Care for native Animals Help others Hunt for gold and rare treasures ...

The Book Of Unicorns
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207191152
RRP: $14.95

There are worlds where fields of dry, baked earth are side by side with enchanted gardens, and places where the strangest creatures are the truest friends. These are the places where unicorns heal hearts and minds, and a place where dreams come true. Unicorns can give you the strength to carry on or they can be the weak, strange-looking foal, hand-fed like a poddy lamb, asleep beside Grandma'...

Diary of a Wombat
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780547076690
RRP: $9.95

In his tongue-in-cheek diary, an Australian wombat describes his life of eating, sleeping, digging, and getting to know some of his new human neighbors who he trains to produce treats on demand. An ALA Notable Book for Children. Reprint....

My Dad the Dragon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781598894363
RRP: $7.95

Horace has received an almost impossible homework assignment at King Arthur's School for Trainee Knights--he has to kill a dragon, which is even more difficult because his father is one....

My Dog the Dinosaur
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781598894370
RRP: $7.95

Gunk and his family get an unusual-looking puppy from the animal shelter, but when it grows up to be a dinosaur, no one can believe it....

My Mom the Pirate
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781598894387
RRP: $7.95

When he asks his mother, a privateer for Queen Elizabeth, to go to school she insists it be the best one in the world, only it is over four hundred years in the future....

My Uncle the Werewolf
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781598894394
RRP: $7.95

When his parents disappear, his uncle takes over the werewolf pack and tries to make them act like humans so Buster decides to hire a private detective to help find his parents, and bring back some "normalcy."...

No Such Thing
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781590789117
RRP: $10.95

Even though his mother says there are no monsters, a frightened Howard is convinced that a boy-eating monster is hiding under his bed, while beneath the bed, a boy-fearing Monster fears the monster-eating boy he thinks is above the bed. Reprint. Jr Lib Guild....

Nothing to Fear
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780152575823
RRP: $10.95

When his father moves away to find work and his mother becomes ill, Danny struggles to help his family during the Great Depression...

One Monkey Too Many
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780152047641
RRP: $9.95

Adventurous monkeys have a series of mishaps and escapades involving a bike, a canoe, a restaurant, and a hotel....

The Little Book of Big Questions
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781550376548
RRP: $12.95

Addresses questions kids often wonder about, where there is usually no simple answer, offering different theories and opinions with examples and comparisons....

The Little Book of Big Questions
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781550376555
RRP: $25.95

Addresses questions kids often wonder about, where there is usually no simple answer, offering different theories and opinions with examples and comparisons....

Too Many Pears!
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781595721129
RRP: $8.95

Pamela the cow loves pears so much that no one else ever has a chance to eat any....

A Box Full Of Phaeries, Phreddes And Fruit
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207198496

Illustrated by Mitch Vane, exclusive to this boxed set. This boxed set brings together beautiful new editions of the first three books of the Phredde series: - 'Stories To Eat With A Banana: A Phaery Named Phredde' - 'Stories To Eat With A Watermelon: Phredde And A Frog Named Bruce' - 'Stories To Eat With A Blood Plum: Phredde And The Zombie Librarian' Giving three times ...

A Story To Eat With A Mandarin: Phredde And The Temple Of Gloom
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207197819

Another hilarious adventure about a phaery named Phredde (and a girl called Pru and frog called Bruce). Prudence is invited by her father's distant werewolf cousins to their gloomy castle to hunt for some missing "treasure". Phredde and Bruce accompany Prudence, who is well aware that if she fails then her father will have to take her place. The zombie librarian also makes a reappear...

A Story To Eat With A Watermelon: Phredde And A Frog Named Bruce
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207200014

Beautiful new editions of popular titles that will entice a whole new generation of readers to the exploits of Phredde and her friends. When your teacher's a vampire, your brother's a werewolf, and a frog named Bruce refuses to try to help to save Sleeping Beauty from the Prince, what else can happen?...

A War For Gentlemen
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732277697

The first adult novel from the much-loved star of 'Burke's Backyard', this vibrant novel explores the strange story of how a colonial "gentleman" from New South Wales went to serve in the American Civil War . . . and what happened when he came back. Sipping lime juice beside the tennis court one afternoon, Charlie finds himself passionately supporting the Rebel cause and pledg...

Bears Don't Bounce!: A Flip-The-Flap Book Of Wild Animals
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780864613974

Illustrated by Matt Cosgrove. ...

Beyond The Boundaries
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207187469

Sequel to 'Walking the Boundaries' - a chapter book for older readers. The farm . . . it was now all his, held in trust until he was twenty-one. But it would still be in trust. That's what it meant to own the farm . . . you looked after it, you cherished it. You were the guardian, like all the other guardians, stretching back in time. . . The boundaries were more than lines on a ma...

Bluegum: Mind's Eye
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207187742

A collection of short stories by Jackie French for the older reader. When the bunyip howls once more; when you soar with the eagle; when the potato salad sets you on a journey to the past; then the imagination is set free - the familiar becoming the unfamiliar. Nothing is certain . . . in the mind's eye anything can happen. A Christmas present for the bunyip . . . the gift of seeing the win...

Bluegum: The Secret Beach
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207186493

Emily is drawn to this beach, with its sudden roaring tides and sharp rocky headland. She can escape there and forget that her mother has left her with a father she has never known. It is on the beach that Emily meets Margaret and believes she has found a friend. But who is Margaret? Is she really a mermaid, or simply a madwoman to be ignored as the locals say? What does Margaret's story ...

Cafe On Callisto
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780864613325

An hilarious adventure in the hugely popular Callisto series....

Captain Purrfect
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780864614247

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Earthly Delights
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732270032

A zany collection of over 20 brews to tempt your lover on Valentine's Day including: seriously sexy massage oil, cocolate peppermint truffles, passionfruit cordial, and herbal viagra massage oil. This books includes a classic blend of recipes, fun and folklore....

How Aliens From Alpha Centauri Invaded
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207196812

Do you like to fly to the moons of Saturn or visit talking wombats? Do you like to daydream? Do you eat chocolate? Have you ever wondered how your favourite authors create the fantastic worlds their characters inhabit? And have you ever wanted to write yourself? Jackie French, one of Australia's most popular and renowned children's authors, helps you to unleash the full power of your creat...

How To Guzzle Your Garden
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207197932

There are lots of things you can plant and be guzzling a few months later, from watermelons and cumquats to flowers and weeds. You don't even need a garden to be able to grow things. You can grow plants to eat anywhere - in a bucket, in your joggers, in an old computer . . . or at school. This book will show you how to plant things you never thought of in places you never dreamt of. But be...

Josephine Wants To Dance
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780207200755

Illustrations by Bruce Whatley. From the award-winning duo of 'Diary of a Wombat' comes another hilarious tale of a bush animal you'll never forget. Josephine is a kangaroo - who loves to dance. Her little brother, Joey, tells her that kangaroos don't dance, they hop - but Josephine continues to point her toes and leap through the air. When a ballet troupe comes to town and both...

Lady Dance
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207197475

A chapter book for older readers. It was the end of the world, the end of all the child had ever known. Then Lady Dance came singing through the village, and everything was changed. Lady Dance leads her followers from the plague-stricken villages into a world of joy and music. When Lady Dance sang even death was pushed away. The boundaries of the child's world were pushed far beyond the v...

Lime Tadpoles: Burt And The Band
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780864612786

A Lime Tadpole beginner chapter book for the most tentative of earliest independent readers. Illustrated by Beth Norling It's the Heritage Week parade tomorrow. All the kids in the band are excited, but at the last rehearsal, Sam Snarkle broke the big drum. What can they do? A hilarious story with lots of funny sound effects and stunning illustrations....

Missing You, Love Sara
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207197062

There are hundreds and thousands of Missing Persons ... whether they have changed identity to remain hidden from those who love them, whether they have been abducted or some other reason is not always known. Missing You, Love Sara is a story of such a person and the effect on those left behind. Their search for Sara and their search for reasons and meaning to her disappearance. ...

Orange Tadpoles: There's A Wallaby At Bottom Of My Garden
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780864611116

An Orange Tadpole with longer chapters to suit the more advanced beginner reader, illustrated by Bettina Guthridge Another story from the bottom of Jackie French's garden, this time featuring a very special wallaby. The story is complemented by interesting facts about wallabies. ...

Orange Tadpoles: There's An Echidna At Bottom Of My Garden
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780864611123

An Orange Tadpole with longer chapters to suit the more advanced beginner reader, illustrated by David Stanley A true story about an echidna that lived at the bottom of Jackie French's garden in the bush. The story is complemented by interesting facts about echidnas....

Outlands 1: In The Blood
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207197796

The body was lying by my gate, half curled around the post as though for comfort. I tried to feel a pulse. The blood smeared on my fingers. "He sucked at my neck," she whispered. "He said he'd drain me dry." Exiled from the City, virtual engineer, Danielle Forest, hunts a killer in a world of scattered utopias and genetically engineered human-animal crosses. Danielle need...

Outlands 2: Blood Moon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207197512

Sequel to 'In The Blood'. Are the werewolves the killers? Or are humans more vicious than wolves? 'It was a night for hunting. The moon was full. The world was bright with shadows and the leaves gleamed silver around the one who waited in the night.' In this thrilling sequel to 'In The Blood', Danielle Forester faces a pack of genetically engineered werewolves, a trio ...

Pete The Sheep
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007228089

Illustrated by Bruce Whatley. The award-winning team behind Diary of a Wombat have joined forces again to create another highly amusing picture book. Sean is a shearer and instead of a sheepdog to help him, he's got a sheep sheep Pete. After being rejected by the other shearers and their dogs, Sean and Pete set up a sheep salon in town. Sheep from everywhere arrive to have their wool shor...

Pete The Sheep
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780207199660

Illustrated by Bruce Whatley The award-winning team behind 'Diary Of A Wombat' have joined forces again to create another highly amusing picture book. Sean is a shearer and instead of a sheepdog to help him, he's got a sheep sheep - Pete. After being rejected by the other shearers and their dogs, Sean and Pete set up a sheep salon in town. Sheep from everywhere arrive to have their w...

Phaery Named Phredde 7: Phredde And The Vampire Footy Team
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207200106

The seventh hilarious Phaery Named Phredde adventure. Continuing the tradition of the Phredde series, 'Phredde and the Vampire Footy Team' is another crazy and fun title about our popular feral fairy and her friends. It's a new school term and Phredde and her friends in the school footy team are determined to beat the West Wallabies, who are a footy team of vampires. This isn't ...

Phredde And The Ghostly Underpants
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207200328

The eighth hilarious and gripping title in the series of adventures about a Phaery Named Phredde. Someone has left Pru a mansion of her very own! Good, right? But why is Mr Nahsti the solicitor so keen for her to sell it? What are the strange yellow puddles that appear all over the house? And why do Phredde and Bruce keep sneaking off to Phaeryland without her? And most importantly, who keeps st...

Phredde And The Leopard Skin Librarian
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207200274

What do you do when your school librarian starts dressing in leopard-skin and goes off chasing dinosaurs? A school excursion to the Big Koala goes horribly wrong when Phredde, Pru and Bruce - and their vampire teacher Mrs Olsen, and Miss Richards, librarian and martial arts expert - head back into the time of the dinosaurs, not to mention giant marsupial lions, a dinosaur with diarrhoea and an ex...

Plants That Never Say Die
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780850917185

'Plans That Never Say Die' has hundreds of suggestions for plants which can be neglected without dire consequences! The key to having a successful garden is choosing plants to suit the growing conditions. This book takes a comprehensive look at every awkward situation you may encounter: problem soils; sea air; heat and drought; cold and frost; pollution; harsh winds. ...

Rainstones
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207171246

A collection of stories for young readers. The country Helen loves has been dry for nearly half her life. Can her entreaties to Mr Sarancen persuade him to invoke the power of the rain stones as his Aboriginal ancestors did to bring water to this parched land? 'Rain Stones' and the other stories in this collection reveal that the country is a magical place, that there is an extra dime...

Red Tadpoles: Charlie's Gold
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780864612281

A Red Tadpole story for the confident, early independent reader illustrated by Nina Rycroft Emily, the youngest of three sisters, starts hearing voices. The voice is of her ancestor, Charlie (Charlotte) who leads her to a cache of gold hidden in a cave. An exciting historical story combining modern rural problems with those of the past. ...

Red Tadpoles: The Black House
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780864615077

Barney's family moves to a new house in the country. It's a strange house, but the setting is nice and the people in town are friendly. But the house has a secret: there are shudders in the night, slime on the walls and Barney has very strange dreams. The caretaker, Mr Owens, is worried about something too. What could it be?...

Seasons Of Content
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207196454

A Year in the Southern Highlands 'Seasons of Content' tells of a year in the life of the Araluen Valley, an extraordinary part of Australia in the NSW Southern Highlands. It is a story brought vividly to life by Jackie French, whose remarkable words allow us to almost smell and taste Nature in the Valley - the foxes of autumn, the first of the asparagus, the budding and fruiting of peach...

Space Pirates On Callisto
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780864614209

Another hilarious adventure in the hugely popular Callisto series....

Stories To Eat With A Banana
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207196836

Meet Phredde, the phaery of grunge. She's tiny, ferocious and Pru's best friend. When Phredde's around odd things can happen, but what with Pru's brother turning into a werewolf, and the teacher growing fangs, Pru needs all the help she can get . . . Magic, fantasy, real life. Pru's beginning to wonder if theres' really a difference. This is a collection of stories to ...

Stories To Eat With A Blood Plum
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207197710

A lighthearted (but scary) bundle of stories about Prudence and her best friend, the Phaery Ethereal - Phredde for short. Phredde, Prue and families have had lots of adventures in 'Stories To Eat With A Banana' and 'Stories To Eat With A Watermelon'. There's a grey fleshed zombie librarian tending her blood starved books in the school library. There's a 5000 year old ...

Stories To Eat With A Watermelon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207197383

A collection of wacky stories forolder readers. When your teacher's a vampire, your brother's a werewolf, and your best friend's a fairy - sorry, phaery - what else can happen? Well, girl-eating rose bushes for a start. And a frog named Bruce who refused to help when you try to save Sleeping Beauty from the Prince. And a dose of the flu that gives all of the world's computers m...

Summerland
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207190100

A chapter book for older readers Iddy cannot remember her name, or where she comes from, or anything about her people. But she finds understanding and friends in the peace and calm of Summerland. Her friends are reassuring - Iddy will remember when she is ready. In the Summerland the dragons eat mosquitoes and unicorns prune the apple trees . . . so many strange things to see and imagine, and ...

Tajore Arkle
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207197208

The sky is red, and the only green is in the poisonous Rift that circles Tajore Arkle. But Anya remembers a time that is different, colours that are different. Anya's memories lead her to the Mountain, home of the Pastseers, to a friendship with Ib, who remembers too, and a journey across the White Sea desert to find the secrets of the Rift....

The Fascinating History Of Your Lunch
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207197505

OK, hold everything! Put that sandwich down where you found it! The history of the world is in your lunch box (well, the interesting bits of history anyway). Who ate what and what sort of life did they lead? Most importantly, what did they eat for lunch? Fried giant spiders? Guinea pigs? Snails? Fish and chips? Boiled galah with damper? Cheese and salad sandwiches? How did the world get...

The Little Book Of Big Questions
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781864487718

When did the Universe begin? What happens when you die? Is time travel possible? Do aliens exist? Why isn't life fair? What killed the dinosaurs? What is a person? Jackie French has been puzzling over the big questions all her life. In this book she's put down her answers so far. What do you think? And what does Terry Denton make of it all? Jackie French and Terry Denton take a funny...

Vampire Slugs On Callisto
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780864614667

Another hilarious adventure in the hugely popular Callisto series. They're big and fanged and slimy. They're the Vampire Slugs of Callisto and they suck . . . well, just about everything . . . apple trees, Sam's homework and, even worse, Dad's pineapple pizza! Someone has to do something about them!...

Wacky Families 2: My Dog The Dinosaur
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207199417

Who said dogs were man's best friend? This is the story of Gunk and his dog - oops, sorry, Gunk and his dinosaur - and Pete, the girl next door. Spot has a long neck, a flat tail and eats lettuce. In fact Spot is the dumbest looking dog Gunk has ever seen. Spot is scared of cats too and Fliss's motorbike. But then Spot starts to grow . . . Will Spot ever learn to bark? Can Gunk teach Sp...

Wacky Families 3: My Dad The Dragon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207199509

Some kids think their dads are wacky - find out how wacky one dad can be in the third book of this highly amusing series. "Now for your homework!" announced Sir Sneazle, smiling nastily at the class. Sir Sneazle's teeth were sharp and yellow, and he showed too many of them when he smiled. And what homework! To rescue a damsel, write a 100-page essay - without blots - on Ye Historie...

Wacky Families 8: My Pa The Polar Bear
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207200786

Fuzz and his family live at the zoo. Fuzz's Dad is a blood-thirsty tiger, his Mum a mud-cake-making rhinoceros, his sister a tap-dancing giraffe, his brothers a pair of somersaulting monkeys, and Fuzz makes great pocketmoney pretending to be a polar bear. At the end of each day Fuzz's family take off their costumes. Well, most of the time, anyway. Fuzz's Pa loves being a polar bear ...

Walking The Boundaries
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207177965

Illustrated by Bronwyn Bancroft. He could sell the farm and be rich! All Martin has to do is walk the boundaries and the farm will be his. It seems like a huge joke when his great-grandfather tells him that he doesn't even have to walk all the way around the fences. It is a bright sunny day when Martin sets out but suddenly he finds himself being swept away in a flash flood! Meg rescues h...

Yates Guide To Herbs
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207185151

Herbs have many uses - culinary, medicinal and decorative. In this guide, Jackie French provides inspiration and good, sound information about herbs, how to grow them and how to use them. She illustrates how to create your own lush herb garden which will not only beautify your home but will add a new dimension to your appreciation of herbs. Each herb is listed alphabetically with notes on its o...

Yates Mini Guide: Handy Hints For The Home Garden
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732270179

When is the best time to water your garden? How do you propagate the perfect plant from a cutting? How can you ensure your bulbs will flower next year? This book gives the kind of advice that can turn an average garden into a thriving garden. Much of the information here is based on commonsense tips that have been proved to work and have been handed from gardener to gardener. How to you dete...

Yates Mini Guide: Herbs For The Home Garden
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732270186

Herbs have many uses - culinary, medicinal and decorative. In this book, Jackie French provides inspiration and good, sound information about herbs, how to grow them and how to use them. She illustrates how to create your own lush herb garden, which will not only beautify your home but will add a new dimension to your appreciation of herbs. 'The Herbal Alphabet' details each herb, with ...

Yellow Tadpole: Felix Smith Has Every Right To Be A Crocodile
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780864611567

A Yellow Tadpole for the emergent reader, with a simple story, brief chapters and supportive illustrations by David Stanley An innovative mix of text and illustration tells the story of how a little boy exercises his imagination by pretending to be all sorts of amazing things. ...

Young Bluegum: A Wombat Named Bosco
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207190094

A chapter book for young readers, illustrated by Bettina Guthridge Darren saw it first, then Pete and by the afternoon everyone could see it, too. Everyone except Mr Hanley. At first, Pete thought the large furry brown animal was a big dog. But when he looked closely, it looked more like a giant wombat. And it was! A wombat named Bosco. Bosco isn't like other wombats; he knows how to ac...

Young Bluegum: The Warrior
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207190889

The Story of a Wombat, illustrated by Bettina Guthridge, for young readers. At first his whole world had been the pouch; the sweet scent of his mother, her warmth, and the steady thud of her pulse. Now, he wants to find another world. The warrior is ready to explore. But finding a world, his world, away from the safety of the creek flat and his mother's hole, is hard and dangerous. And fo...