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A Walk in the Dark by Jane Godwin
$17.00 AUD
Category: Upper Primary
A gripping and suspenseful rite-of-passage novel about five teenagers and one night that will change them all, from award-winning author Jane Godwin. 'It's just a walk in the dark. What is there to worry about?' That's what the head teacher, Johan, says. And so the Year Nines from Otway Community School ...Show more
All Through the Year by Jane Godwin
$25.00 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books | Reading Level: 4-8
Open this book and travel your way all through the year and treasure each day. From this beloved/illustrator team comes a timeless account of a year in the lift of an Australian family. Told through the eyes of a child and featuring each month of the year, here is a book to give, to share and to treasur ...Show more
Arno and His Horse by Jane Godwin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books
Arno had a horse, it was brown and it was black. He took it with him everywhere, but did he bring it back? When Arno loses his precious toy horse, all the kids in town help him to look for it. They look everywhere, but will Arno ever see his horse again? A touching story about loss, memory, and the my ...Show more
As Happy as Here by Jane Godwin
$17.00 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction
Three teenage girls from very different backgrounds find themselves sharing a hospital ward. When they witness a crime in the park below their window, they bond over trying to solve the crime and each one undergoes a profound change. A beautiful coming-of-age story about identity, expectation, class, j ...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
Don't Forget by Jane Godwin
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2022 Picture Book of the Year
Don't forget to make your bed, and wear socks that fit your feet... Don't forget to care, to play, To run, to laugh... Sometimes, we need to remember all the things we can do to be part of the world. Small things, like offering a smile. And bigger things, like hoping, dreaming, imagining...
Go Go and the Silver Shoes by Jane Godwin; Anna Walker (Illustrator)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books
When Go Go is allowed to buy the most beautiful shoes ever, she decides she will wear them EVERYWHERE! Even to the creek, where she and her brothers go adventuring. But - Oh no, Go Go! - that's when a terrible thing happens . . .
Go Go and the Silver Shoes (PB) by Jane Godwin
$15.00 AUD
Category: Parenting
Go Go is confident and creative about her clothes, even though most of them are hand-me-downs from her three older brothers. The only new things she ever gets are underwear and shoes. That's why she loves new shoes, especially her latest and most precious silver shoes. But despite her mother's warnings, ...Show more
How Big Is Too Small? by Jane Godwin; Andrew Joyner
$14.99 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 2-3, Age 7-8
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How Big is Too Small? by Jane Godwin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books
My brother was making a game with a ball, Bouncing and throwing up high on a wall, When I asked to join in, he straightened up tall And I knew what he'd say, he said, 'You're too small.' Poor Sam! He always gets left out of his big brother's games. But one day when the big boys leave him out again, Sam ...Show more
Ivanhoe Swift Left Home at Six by Jane Godwin
$25.00 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books | Reading Level: very good
A lyrical exploration of those bittersweet moments when children first begin to explore the world for themselves.
I’ll Always Be Older Than You by Jane Godwin / Sara Acton
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Early Childhood
I’ll teach you to eat bananas And an ice cream in a cone, Its good you’ve got me, I had To learn this one on my own. This is a story of wonderment, a direct address from an older sister to a new sibling in which the narrator marvels at how she will always be older than her baby brother, no matter how ol ...Show more