Australian Backyard Birds by Myke Mollard
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Eve Pownall Award
Myke Mollards signature illustrations and engaging text, delivered with a cinematic punch, bring kids up close and personal with over 150 of the most beautiful and characterful birds that are commonly seen around our gardens. Readers will understand these creatures better and learn how to help preserve ...Show more
How We Came to Be: Creatures of Camouflage and Mimicry by Sami Bayly
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Eve Pownall Award
Discover the secrets behind some of the natural world's most unusual creatures of camouflage and mimicry. Find out about the chameleon who changes colour to communicate with its friends, the burrowing owl who copies the sound of a fiercer animal to protect itself from threats, and the harlequin filefish ...Show more
Country Town (HB) by Isolde Martyn, Robyn Ridgeway
$30.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Eve Pownall Award
Age range 9 to 12 Happy times, sad times, boom times and gloom times! From the First Peoples camp at the river crossing in the 1820s through to Carols by Candlelight at the showground in today’s world, this is a decade by decade wonderfully illustrated story of a small country community.
Songlines: First Knowledges for younger readers by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Eve Pownall Award | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
How do you find your way around, get your food and drink, connect with your friends and family? How do you know the right and safe way to do things, or how to make things? Before the white people came to the continent, all Australian Aboriginal people knew how to do all these things - and much, much mor ...Show more
Our Country: Where History Happened by Mark Greenwood
$27.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Eve Pownall Award | Series: Our Country Ser.
The second title in the OUR COUNTRY series, celebrating and contextualising the richness of Australia's history, and where it happened. In every corner of Australia, history happened. The pages of this book are a journey through tens of thousands of years. Our history is recorded in ancient rock art, in ...Show more
Eat My Dust! by Neridah McMullin
$27.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Eve Pownall Award
The amazing true story of Jean Robertson and Kathleen Howell, who helped map Australia. In 1928, girls don't drive cars, let alone race them, until two fearless and intrepid best friends make history, racing across Australia and beating the land speed record ... with Barney the dog in tow!
Australian Animals: From Beach to Bush by Brentos
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Eve Pownall Award
A glorious celebration of Australia's native wildlife as you have never seen before, from emerging artist Brentos. Australia is home to many unique animals. Let's see how many we can meet! Find Humpback Whales in coral reefs, seek out Australian Sea Lions in kelp forests, search for Short-Nosed Wombats ...Show more
Country Tells Us When… (Yawuru Edition) by Tsheena Cooper, Mary Dann, Dalisa Pigram-Ross, Sheree Ford
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Eve Pownall Award
Some cultures around the world have four seasons that they look out for on a calendar; Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring. Us Yawuru mob, we don't have four seasons that are told to us by a calendar. We have six seasons and Country tells us when they have arrived by what we feel, see, taste, smell and he ...Show more
River to Bay: Victoria's Maritime History by Carole Wilkinson
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Eve Pownall Award
Kulin Nation country is abundant with waterways essential to the way the traditional owners have lived for more than 40,000 years. Those same crucial waterways are where the first ships of European settlers found safe harbour in their trips of exploration. What they found would determine the developmen ...Show more
Last Man Out: A personal account of the Gallipoli Evacuation by Louise Park
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Eve Pownall Award
The evacuation from Gallipoli of Australian and New Zealand troops was a logistically incredible undertaking. The exhausted young men were to slip away by ship in the dead of night. But… Someone needed to remain behind to cover for their fellow soldiers. This was a mission that almost certainly meant de ...Show more
Caroline by Mark Wilson
$29.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Eve Pownall Award
Age range 8 to 12Caroline is the true story of Caroline Chisholm, All who went before her did their part in helping shape Australia into a confident, progressive and vibrant society. But when Caroline arrived in Australia, she thrived on the challenges facing her to help the many orphans, migrants and d ...Show more
Australia: Country of Colour by Jess Racklyeft
$30.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Eve Pownall Award
With red deserts, green bush, wide blue skies and golden beaches, Australia is a country of extraordinary colour. Come take a closer look at the rainbow of life that lives in Australia, from one of our best-loved picture book creators.