Book of Curious Birds by Jennifer Cossins
$27.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2022 Eve Pownall Award
Birds can be curious creatures. From their strange or unusual appearance to their unique behaviour, they really are one of the most fascinating species in the animal kingdom. Explore the unique traits of curious birds from the Blue-footed booby to the Greater prairie chicken in this beautifully illustra ...Show more
No Way! by Dan Marshall
$30.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2022 Eve Pownall Award
Get ready to go on a wonderful journey of discovery that will make you say No Way! Learn all about space, humans, earth, science, animals and maths, with the help of your trusty robot sidekick KLAUS. Did you know - Uranus is leaking gas into space? The average yawn goes for six seconds? The fact that th ...Show more
The Amazing Meals of Martha Maloney by Dan Wild, Margaret Wild
$25.99 AUD
Category: CBCA 2022 Eve Pownall Award
A tasty treat of a book where a precocious and imaginative child dines with important historical figures. On a school trip to the Museum of Famous People, Martha Maloney wanders off and enjoys the culinary delights of important figures through time, much to the dismay of her teacher. Readers can experie ...Show more
Still Alive - Notes from Australia's Immigration Detention System (graphic) by Safdar Ahmed (Illustrator)
$30.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2022 Eve Pownall Award
WINNER of 2022 Eve Pownall AwardA graphic novel detailing author Safdar Ahmed's experiences visiting the Villawood Detention Centre in Sydney. Safdar tells the stories of the people seeking asylum in Australia that he meets in Villawood.
Heroes, Rebels and Innovators: Inspiring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from history (HB) (CBCA Winner 2022) by Karen Wyld
$27.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2022 Eve Pownall Award
Powerful and inspiring: here are seven stirring stories about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who helped shape Australia. Each colourful spread in this illustrated book tells the story of incredible Indigenous Australians - such as Patyegarang, the young Darug woman who taught a First Fleet ...Show more
One Potoroo: A Story of Survival by Penny Jaye
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2022 Eve Pownall Award
A conservation tale of the Gilbert's Potoroo - Australia's rarest mammal. When a fire destroys Potoroo's home, he becomes one of the last surviving Gilbert's Potoroos at Two Peoples Bay in Western Australia. Frightened, hurt and alone, Potoroo needs a new home - somewhere safe from predators and with ...Show more
Kunyi by Kunyi June Anne McInerney
$28.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2022 Eve Pownall Award
Age range 9+These are my stories from a dry remote place, where growing up was very different for what children know today.Kunyi June Anne McInerney was just four years old when she and three of her siblings were taken from their family to the Oodnadatta Children’s Home in South Australia in the 1960s.T ...Show more
Walking in Gagudju Country: Exploring the Monsoon Forest by Diane Lucas, Ben Tyler
$30.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2022 Eve Pownall Award
Walk with us through one of the Top End's magnificent monsoon forests, in Kakadu National Park, learning about the plants, animals and Kundjeyhmi culture along the way. When we go walking, we never know how long we will be, what we will hear and what we will see.We pack our bags with food and water, a ...Show more
Rachel's War: The Story of an Australian WWI Nurse by Mark Wilson
$27.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2022 Eve Pownall Award
Growing up on a farm in country Victoria, all Rachel wants is to help people. When war comes, she travels to distant Europe and the Middle East, working tirelessly to care for wounded and sick soldiers from the battlefields of Gallipoli and the Western Front. Inspired by the life of Rachel Pratt, a Worl ...Show more
Iceberg by Claire Saxby
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2022 Eve Pownall Award | Reading Level: very good
WINNER of 2022 CBCA Picture Book of the YearAn iceberg is born into spring and travels through the seasons before dying in a new spring. A stunning, lyrical story for our times, from renowned picture book creators Claire Saxby and Jess Racklyeft. In the final freeze of an Antarctic winter, green tails w ...Show more