The Lucky Shack by Apsara Baldovino
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Picture Book of the Year
A timeless message of hope - of love lost and found again - this story is a stunning debut that will warm your heart. I am a lucky shack. I spend my days watching boats bob gently under puffy clouds, on a sparkling sea.Surrounded by natural beauty, a seaside shack is lovingly cared for by a fisherman, u ...Show more
One Little Duck: Shortlisted for the 2024 CBCA Awards by Katrina Germein
$26.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Early Childhood
The classic 'Five Little Ducks' meets We're Going on a Bear Hunt and I Went Walking in an irresistibly fresh, cute and clever picture book that pre-schoolers will love. One little duck went out one day, over the hills and far away. Mother Duck said ... 'Moo Moo Moo Moo,' and Cow said, 'Wait! Now I'm com ...Show more
Timeless by Kelly Canby
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Picture Book of the Year
This vibrant new picture book by award-winning author and illustrator Kelly Canby is all about time - making it, losing it and subverting the whole darn concept.;Emit (whose parents turned back time to name him) is surrounded by busyness. Dad is too busy to read stories, Mum is too busy to play games an ...Show more
Sunshine on Vinegar Street by Karen Comer
$18.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
A sweet and emotional novel about friendship, family and accepting change from a fresh new voice. Freya's world is turned upside down when she and her mum move to inner-city Melbourne... Stuck in a new apartment on the eleventh floor and Freya is afraid of lifts. Stuck in a new basketball team where not ...Show more
Mizuto and the Wind by Kaye Baillie
$30.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Picture Book of the Year
Age range 5 to 10Mizuto is a young boy living an ordinary life in Japan until one day, something extraordinary happens.Following a deadly tsunami, Mizuto’s father is missing.Could a mysterious telephone connected only to the wind help him find his father?Based on real events, Mizuto and the Wind is a st ...Show more
Gurril: Storm Bird by Trevor Fourmile
$28.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Early Childhood
Age range 4+Based on a traditional story from the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji First Nations people of Cairns, it has been told by many generations.Gurril could not understand why everyone was afraid of a snake, even if it was Gudju-gudju, the rainbow serpent! But he was soon to discover just how powerful Gud ...Show more
The World's Most Ridiculous Animals by Philip Bunting
$29.99 AUD
Category: CBCA 2023 Eve Pownall Award | Series: The\World's Most Ser.
The World’s Most Ridiculous* Animals (*or are they?) The next hilarious, playfully irreverent title in The World's Most... series, written and illustrated by Philip Bunting. The World’s Most Ridiculous Animals is all about absurd-looking animals with incredible (if somewhat seemingly over-the-top) f ...Show more
The Voyage of Whale and Calf by Vanessa Pirotta
$24.99 AUD
Category: CBCA 2023 Eve Pownall Award
Age range 6 to 9Calf is a newborn humpback whale, venturing into an exciting marine world while being nurtured and cared for by his mother. Join them as they travel along the east coast of Australia, meeting marine creatures. See the challenges Calf and Whale face as they head down into the icy waters o ...Show more
Where do babies come from? by Heath McKenzie
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2023 Eve Pownall Award
Do babies come from an egg, like a chicken? Or do they come from a pouch, like a kangaroo? What about from a seed? Like a plant? Heath McKenzie brings laughter and fun to the science of human biology. Taking as a launching point one of the trickiest questions of them all, Heath's illustrations and humou ...Show more
Opal and Dart by Vianne Brain
$30.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2023 Eve Pownall Award
This is a story about Opal and Dart, a pair of swallows that migrate in spring from Queensland to Tasmania.They return to the nest where Dart was hatched, to raise a family of their own.Arriving safely, they have problems with new neighbours that have settled in the garden since Dart left last autumn. ...Show more
A Shorebird Flying Adventure by Jackie Kerin, Milly Formby
$24.99 AUD
Category: CBCA 2023 Eve Pownall Award
Age range 6 to 9Join Milly on her microlight adventure and discover how amazing and awesome migratory shorebirds are!In A Shorebird Flying Adventure you’ll take a trip to the Arctic tundra and back. On the way you’ll meet the birds who travel phenomenal distances every year and explore their precious we ...Show more
Votes for Women!: The story of Nellie, Rose and Mary by Mark Wilson
$26.99 AUD
Category: CBCA 2023 Eve Pownall Award
From award-winning author and illustrator Mark Wilson, a stirring story of the women who first won the right to vote in Australia - inspired by real people and historical eventsIn 1890, Rose Birks and her stepdaughter, Nellie, two strong-willed and determined women, began writing letters and attending m ...Show more