Ladybirds Do Not Go to Day Care by Ali Rutstein
$23.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Picture Book of the Year | Series: Preschool Problems Ser.
Mum says it's the first day of day care, but Ravi's dressed up as his favourite insect, and he is quite certain that ladybirds do not go to day care. In fact, this ladybird would rather stay home and eat aphids, thank you very much!Can an anxious and unsure Ravi find the bravery he needs to take flight? ...Show more
Hair by Mike Dumbleton; Lucinda Gifford (Illustrator)
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Early Childhood
Hair - a crazy fun look at all types, styles and colour of Hair, Hairstyles that cross generations. Page after page, showing yet another outrageous hairstyle on a character and their appearance with animals.
Grace and Mr Milligan by Caz Goodwin
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Early Childhood
Grace lives next door to old Mr Milligan and his goat Charlie. They are the best of friends. But when Mr Milligan' s beloved goat dies, everything changes. Will Grace be able to help her friend overcome his sadness? Grace and Mr Milligan is a heart-warming story of grief, love and the healing power of f ...Show more
Can You Teach a Fish to Climb a Tree? by Jane Godwin
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Early Childhood
‘Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.’ -- Albert Einstein (or not, as it turns out!) So … can a fish climb a tree? Can a horse drive a car? Can a baby bake a cake? And if they can’t, what wonderful thing ...Show more
Bear and Duck are Friends by Sue deGennaro
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Early Childhood
Bear and Duck are best friends, but they are very different. Duck likes to try new things, and Bear ... well, Bear likes not to. When Duck needs a friend for her dance class, Bear reluctantly agrees. Bear’s big size causes problems at first, but he soon discovers that he might just be a very good dan ...Show more
Anchored by Debra Tidball
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Early Childhood
In this sensitive tale, Tug and Ship are connected by bonds of love despite being oceans apart. In a world where so many parents are separated from their children for periods of time due to work and/or living arrangements, sometimes the sense of attachment can feel a little vulnerable. Anchored is a rea ...Show more
City of Light by Julia Lawrinson
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Picture Book of the Year
Our city is big. Our universe is bigger. An astronaut from the other side of the world will fly over our home, at night. We will see a tiny light and we will know it's him. But will he be able to see us? One girl, one boy? A true story.
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
Uncle Xbox by Jared Thomas
$18.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
Age range 7 to 12 ‘Nooooo,’ I yelled and then Mum ran into the room in panic.‘What is it, what is it?!’ she yelled, shaking me by the shoulder.‘Mum, Marcus took the Xbox,’ I cried.‘Good!’ Mum said, ‘Maybe now you can help out with the chores a bit more.’Dusty spends a lot of time playing games online, a ...Show more
The Power of Being Odd (The Odds, #3) by Matt Stanton
$16.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers | Series: The\Odds Ser.
Two worlds collide in this conclusion to The Odds trilogy Kip, Dad and the Odds are trapped inside Kip's imagination and now they have a choice - to remain safe in the world of her imagination OR to try and escape. While fully exploring the world of her imagination, Kip discovers that her two worlds are ...Show more
The Great Gallipoli Escape by Jackie French
$18.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
Renowned for her historical fiction titles, Jackie French now tells the story of the brilliant and famous evacuation of Gallipoli. Sixteen-year-old Nipper and his Gallipoli mates Lanky, Spud, Bluey and Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipped. By November 1915 they know that that there is mor ...Show more
The Mud Puddlers by Pamela Rushby
$18.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
What lies hidden in the mud? What might happen if you look at it too long? And what will happen if you let it go? Twelve-year-old Nina is not happy. Her scientist parents are spending a year in Antarctica. And Nina's being sent to London to stay with her Aunt Bee, an intertidal archaeologist, who lives ...Show more