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Amazing Grace: An Adventure at Sea by Stephanie Owen Reeder
$29.95 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books
This is an exciting tale of the courage of 16-year-old Grace Bussell, an ordinary teenage girl who is thrust into an extraordinary situation when a steamship runs aground near her home on the south-west coast of Australia in 1876. Using eyewitness accounts and other historical documents of the time, the ...Show more
Australia's Wild Weird Wonderful Weather by Stephanie Owen Reeder; Tania Mccartney (Illustrator)
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Eve Pownall Award
Age range 5+Did you know that, in 2009, a massive dust storm in Australia blew red dust and sand all the way to New Zealand, where it turned the glaciers pink? That, in 1899, Cyclone Mahina plucked dolphins out of the ocean in Far North Queensland and deposited them on cliff tops? That it snowed at Ulur ...Show more
Dance Like a Pirate by Stephanie Owen Reeder
$17.99 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books
Its time to get active! Who wants to dance like a pirate, tiptoe like a fairy, run like a span style"line-height: 1.45em;"firefighter or pose like a superhero?
Feeling Fine! by Stephanie Owen Reeder
$12.95 AUD
Category: Social Justice
When young children feel an emotion, it is written all over their faces and reflected in their body languagethe set of their eyebrows, the shape of their eyes and mouth, the way they hold their body and what they do with their hands. Feeling Fine! is an entertaining board book about emotions.
I've Got a Feeling! by Stephanie Owen Reeder
$17.95 AUD
Category: Social Justice
This is an entertaining and interactive lift-the-flap book about emotions. Engaging verses, colourful illustrations and pertinent questions encourage children to think about how they feel. Activities at the back of the book explore emotions through art and imaginative play.
Lennie the Legend (#3 Heritage Heroes)) by Stephanie Owen Reeder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books
This is the inspiring true story of nine-year-old Lennie Gwyther who, at the height of the Great Depression in 1932, rode his pony from his home town of Leongatha in rural Victoria to Sydney to witness the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Lennie's 1,000-kilometre solo journey captured the imaginati ...Show more
Lost!: A True Tale from the Bush by Stephanie Owen Reeder
$29.95 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction
Tales of children lost in the bush have frightened and fascinated Australians since colonial times. In August 1864, three children - Isaac, 9, Jane, 7, and Frank, 3 - survived nine long days and eight cold winter nights in the desolate scrub of the Wimmera region of west Victoria. The children walked fo ...Show more
Marvellous Miss May by Stephanie Owen Reeder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Education | Series: Heritage Heroes Ser.
In 1901, aged just seven, tiny contortionist May Zinga was given away to Wirth Brothers Circus by her desperate mother. Imagine Miss May's horror when the first thing the Wirths did was cut off all her hair. Poor May had lost both her family and her crowning glory! But this feisty, talented and determin ...Show more
Swifty by Stephanie Owen Reeder
$25.00 AUD
Category: Aboriginal/First Nations
Age range 6 to 9A captivating story of the remarkable, but critically endangered, swift parrot — one of the fastest parrots in the world!Swifty grows from a hatchling to a fledgling in the blue-gum forests of Tasmania. She is then ready to make a challenging migration, following the blossom trail across ...Show more
Will the Wonderkid (#5 Heritage Heroes) by Stephanie Owen Reeder
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Eve Pownall Award
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