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Queen Victoria's Christmas by Jackie French
$15.00 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books
From the creators of the delightful QUEEN VICTORIA'S UNDERPANTS comes the story of the first 'traditional' Christmas, complete with a Christmas tree and presents for the family, as seen from the point of view of Queen Victoria's dogs. Something strange is happening at the palace and the dogs can't work ...Show more
Queen Victoria's Underpants by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books
A very funny story about the most famous underwear in the British Empire.Ages: 4+ Meet Lizzy, whose family are in the clothing industry. Very few people probably know that Queen Victoria made the wearing of underpants popular. At the beginning of her reign very few women wore them. But Queen Victoria ma ...Show more
Queen Victoria's Underpants (H/B) by Jackie French
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books | Reading Level: 5-9
Meet Lizzy, whose family are in the clothing industry. Very few people probably know that Queen Victoria made the wearing of underpants popular. At the beginning of her reign very few women wore them. But Queen Victoria made tartans, perambulators and chloroform fashionable. By the time she died just ab ...Show more
Rocket Your Child into Reading by Jackie French
$19.95 AUD
Category: Parenting
Written in Jackie French's inimitable style, one of the aims of this book is to help parents and teachers identify children's reading difficulties and then suggest ways to deal with them.The book is full of useful and practical solutions, rather than long, dense paragraphs dripping with educational theo ...Show more
The Beach They Called Gallipoli (HB) by Jackie French; Bruce Whatley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Education | Reading Level: 7+
An extraordinary exploration of Gallipoli created by the incredible Jackie French and Bruce Whatley Many books have been written about the battles of Gallipoli; the men who went to war and what they faced, the letters, and the tears of those left behind. But this is a book about Gallipoli, the place, an ...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 Hairy Nosed Wombats Find a New Home by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books | Series: WILRO
THE HAIRY-NOSED WOMBATS FIND A NEW HOME is a charmingly humorous picture book for young children about the endangered hairy nosed wombat and the search for a new home for them. Ages: 4-8 Once upon a time, deep underground, there was a colony of wonderfully whiskery wombats who all had hairy noses. They ...Show more
The Secret World of Wombats by Jackie French; Bruce Whatley (Illustrator)
$14.95 AUD
Category: Education
Companion non-fiction title for the bestselling Diary of a Wombat. A non-fiction book that explores everything you've ever wanted to know about wombats. Jackie French loves wombats. She's been living with and studying them for over 30 years, and they have been featured characters in many of her books. N ...Show more
The Shaggy Gully Times by Jackie French
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books
Publisher's description: Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a wombat, a sheep and a dancing kangaroo - And they're on the front page of The Shaggy Gully Times! The small bush town of Shaggy Gully is home to many animals, including local celebrities Mothball, Pete and Josephine. P ...Show more
The Shaggy Gully Times: The Funniest Newspaper You'll Ever Read by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books | Reading Level: 5-8
Welcome, readers, to The Shaggy Gully Times, the punniest newspaper you'll ever read! Ages 4+ Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a wombat, a sheep and a dancing kangaroo - And they're on the front page of the Shaggy Gully times! the small bush town of Shaggy Gully is home to many ...Show more
The Tomorrow Book by Jackie French
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books | Reading Level: 4-8
A timely picture book about a young prince who is determined to rule over a country where the future is filled with environmental hope - and practical solutions, such as common usage of solar and wind power. Lively, fun and positive, this book serves to give young people information about their world a ...Show more
The Turtle and the Flood by Jackie French
$25.00 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books
A companion title to the best-selling The Fire Wombat, this is the story of Myrtle, a small turtle who, by heading uphill, tells the other animals that a flood is coming. Myrtle the turtle knows everything about the waterhole where she lives in the creek. She can also sense the giant flood that is comi ...Show more