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The Big Book of Bugs by Yuval Zommer; Barbara Taylor
$29.99 AUD
Category: Animals & Natural World | Series: The Big Book
In the first pages, children learn that bugs live nearly everywhere on the planet and gain tips on how to become a young bug spotter. As the book continues, the scenic compositions on each page are dedicated to key groups of bugs, including beetles, moths, butterflies, bees, snails, crickets, grasshoppe ...Show more
The Science Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Encycopaedias, Science, Maths & reference materials | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
All the big ideas in science, simply explained Part of the popular Big Ideas series, The Science Book explores the history of science, how scientists have sought to explain our incredible universe and how amazing scientific discoveries have been made. Discover how Galileo worked out his scientific theor ...Show more
How to Make the World Add Up by Tim Harford
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Maths
'If you aren't in love with stats before reading this book, you will be by the time you're done. Powerful, persuasive, and in these truth-defying times, indispensable'Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women'Fabulously readable, lucid, witty and authoritative . . . Every politician and journalis ...Show more
Pop Art: A Colourful History by Alastair Sooke
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art reference
Pop Art is the most important 20th-century art movement. A shift from the archetype to the stereotype, from the exalted to the everyday, it brought Modernism to the masses, making art sexy and fun with Coke cans and comics. Today, in our age of selfies and social networking, we are still living in a wor ...Show more
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love ...Show more
What's Happening to Me? For Boys (Usborne) by Alex Frith
$16.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers | Series: What's Happening to Me? | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 3-4, Age 8-9
A sensitive, detailed and informative guide to male puberty, invaluable for young boys and parents alike, tackling key subjects from physical changes to emotional ones. Bright, stylish original colour illustrations and diagrams reveal everything young boys need to know about the changes they experience ...Show more
Every Day is Malala Day by Rosemary McCarney
$12.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: 7+
This is a letter, illustrated with beautiful photographs, to the girl who stood up to the Taliban and continues to inspire people all around the world.
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die - A Life-Changing List by James Mustich
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literature
"The ultimate literary bucket list." --THE WASHINGTON POST Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that's as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the 1,000-plus titles it recommends. Covering fiction, ...Show more
Prehistoric Mammals by Ken McNamara and Peter Murray
$18.95 AUD
Category: Animals & Natural World
In 1909 a rich accumulation of many thousands of bones was excavated from Mammoth Cave in Australias south-west. Many of the bones far exceeded in size any modern-day native mammal, evidence that in prehistoric times giant mammals had roamed the Australian bush. They included a marsupial the size of a b ...Show more
Australia's Most Extreme by Kathy Riley
$14.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
The biggest, fastest, toughest and smartest creatures! What animal runs so fast it goes blind? Which creature had a tongue that weighs as much as an elephant? What insects carries a bomb in its rear end? The creatures in this book are the superheroes of Australia's animal world, beating all the records ...Show more
How Full Is Your Bucket? For Kids by Tom Rath; Mary Reckmeyer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children
An illustrated adaptation of the long-running bestseller How Full Is Your Bucket? (more than 400,000 copies sold) for kids -- told through the story of a boy who learns a valuable "bucket filling" metaphor and watches it come to life as the day unfolds. Every moment matters. Each of us has an invisibl ...Show more
Mr Huff by Anna Walker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Bill is having a bad day.Mr Huff is following him around and making everything seem difficult. Bill tries to get rid of him, but Mr Huff just gets bigger and bigger!Then they both stop, and a surprising thing happens ...Gentle and poignant, affirming and wise, Mr Huff is a story about the clouds and the ...Show more