| Author: | Alexx Stuart |
| Category: |
Environment & Sustainability |
Hygge goes healthy! Switch and ditch the nasties to live a healthier, de-stressed life
| Author: | Eric Carle; Friends |
| Category: |
Picture Books |
From Eric Carle, the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, comes a beautiful, bright book all about COLOUR. Everyone has a favourite colour! Some like the bright blue of a balloon. Others prefer the mint green of a delicious scoop of ice cream. Eric Carle? He lo... read more
| Author: | Scott Forbes |
| Category: |
Animals & Natural World |
| Series: | Not for Parents |
| Reading Level: | Children's - Grade 2-3, Age 7-8 |
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*
To be a dinosaur hunter you have to be ready to journey through space and time. This book will guide you to remote corners of the world and show you where and how to find dinosaur... read more
| Author: | Ken McNamara and Peter Murray |
| 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... read more
| Author: | Alex Frith; Nancy Leschnikoff (Illustrator); Adam Larkum (Illustrator) |
| Category: |
Teenagers |
| Series: | What's Happening to Me? Ser. |
| 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 kno... read more
| Author: | Yuval Zommer |
| Category: |
Animals & Natural World |
From moths and beetles to worms and spiders, the world is crawling with fascinating bugs. The Big Book of Bugs is the first fact-filled book for children to explore the vast array of creepy-crawlies that share our Earth. In the first pages, children learn that bugs ... read more
| Author: | Tom Rath; Mary Reckmeyer; Maurie J. Manning (Illustrator) |
| 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 m... read more
| Author: | Alastair Sooke |
| 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 w... read more
| Author: | Rosemary McCarney |
| 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.
| Author: | Anna Walker (Illustrator) |
| Category: |
Picture Books |
| Awards: | Some of Anna Walker's awards: CBCA Awards Early Childhood Notable, 2014: Starting School by Jane Godwin & illustrated by Anna Walker CBCA Awards Early Childhood Shortlist, 2013: Peggy by Anna Walker CBCA Awards Early Childhood Notable, 2013: Peggy by Anna Walker CBCA Awards Early Childhood Notable, 2013: Today We Have No Plans by Jane Godwin & illustrated by Anna Walker Prime Minister's Literary Awards Children's fiction shortlist, 2013: Today We Have No Plans by Jane Godwin and illustrated by Anna Walker Book Industry Award Short listed book of the Year for Younger Children (age range 0-8 years), 2013: Today We Have No Plans by Jane Godwin and illustrated by Anna Walker Australian Society of Authors/Children's Picture Book Illustrators' Initiative, Winner of Established Category, 2013: Anna Walker CBCA Awards Early Childhood Notable, 2011: I Don't Believe in Dragons by Anna Walker CBCA Awards Early Childhood Notable, 2011: All Through the Year by Jane Godwin & illustrated by Anna Walker 58th Book Design Awards of Australia, Best Children's Series Design, 2010: Let's Play House CBCA Awards Early Childhood Notable, 2009: Little Cat and the Big Red Bus by Jane Godwin & illustrated by Anna Walker CBCA Awards Early Childhood Notable, 2009: I Love to Sing by Anna Walker (Scholastic Australia) CBCA Awards Early Childhood Notable, 2009: I Love to Dance by Anna Walker (Scholastic Australia) CBCA Awards Early Childhood Notable, 2009: I Love Holidays by Anna Walker (Scholastic Australia) CBCA Awards Early Childhood Notable, 2009: I Love Birthdays by Anna Walker (Scholastic Australia) 57th Book Design Awards of Australia, Best Children's Series Design, 2009: I Love to Dance |
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 abou... read more
| Author: | Bob Graham |
| Category: |
Picture Books |
Could a broken-down bus really bring a whole city neighborhood together? Could it all start with a small girl named Stella? One morning in front of Stella's house, an abandoned bus appears, looking sad as a whale on a beach. On its front, held up with packing tape, is a h... read more
| Author: | Dorling Kindersley |
| 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 scien... read more
