Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician by Lesa Cline-Ransome; Raúl Colón (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
From award-winning author Lesa Cline-Ransome and acclaimed illustrator Ra l Col n comes the sensitive, informative, and inspiring picture book biography of the remarkable mathematician Katherine Johnson, one of the NASA "human computers" whose work was critical to the first US space launch. Before John ...Show more
Bird Count by Susan Edwards Richmond
$18.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
The National Audubon Society's annual Christmas Bird Count stars in this charming picture book, just right for young community scientists, bird watchers, and nature aficionados. A young girl and her mother participate as community scientists in the Christmas Bird Count. The girl is excited when Big Al, ...Show more
Pigeon Math by Asia Citro; Richard Watson (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
2020 Mathical Award WinnerTelling a story about pigeons should be simple. But what's a narrator to do when the number of feathered friends is constantly changing? Can our intrepid storyteller use math facts to keep up with the unstable quantities. . . or is this pigeon-centric tale doomed?
Uma Wimple Charts Her House by Ben Gibson
$37.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Hip, funny, unique--and a perfect curriculum tie-in--here's a picture book with mega kid-appeal about the challenges a student faces when she is given an assignment to make a chart of her own home Uma's been making charts since she was a little kid. But when her teacher gives the class Uma's dream ...Show more
Sheep Won't Sleep by Judy Cox
$18.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Counting sheep is supposed to help you sleep--but a room full of yaks, alpacas, and llamas would keep anyone awake in this counting book with a comical twist.Winner of the Mathical Book Prize!A glass of warm milk, reading, working on her knitting--nothing can help Clarissa get to sleep. When even counti ...Show more
Wolfie: An Unlikely Hero by Deborah Abela
$15.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Dear Readers,Fairytales are nonsense. They?re full of wolves pestering pigs and picking on sweet little girls in red hoods. But I would never do those things. I knit! I bake blueberry pie!You know what I really want to do? I Want to rescue a princess!And if I can?t? I quit!Yours sincerely,WolfieWolfie m ...Show more
Flotsam by David Wiesner
$17.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam - anything floating that has been washed ashore. Bottles, lost toys, small objects of every description are among his usual finds. But there's no way he could have prepared for one particular discovery: a barnacle-enc ...Show more
The Tree and the River by Aaron Becker
$25.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
A spectacular time-lapse portrait of humankind – and our impact on the natural world – from a Caldecott Honor-winning master of the wordless form. For his latest feat of visual storytelling, the acclaimed creator of the Journey trilogy invents, in staggering detail, a familiar world layered with imagi ...Show more
Run Pups Run by Kerri Day
$28.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
When a family heads to the beach with their dogs an adventurous summer day unfolds. A lost kite, riding the waves, sandcastles, ice-cream, hiding from their parents and a thunderstorm! A rollicking, rhyming adventure story to read aloud and share with the whole family. Run Pups Run celebrates the simple ...Show more
Ruby's Repair Cafe by Michelle Worthington
$27.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Age range 3 to 6. Ruby loves to fix things, rather than throwing them away. When a shiny new department store opens next door to Ruby’s Repair Cafe, everyone in town soon forgets about fixing things. But will Ruby be able to save her family business from big business before the rubbish takes over the to ...Show more
Anchored by Debra Tidball
$25.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
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
Ten Pound Pom (PB) by Carole Wilkinson; Liz Anelli (Illustrator)
$17.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
An important slice of Australia's immigration story, detailing the 1960s push for British migrants.I don't want to go to Australia. I have just started grammar school. My best friend Sally goes there too. But it looks like there could be another war and Dad has convinced Mum to go. Because we're migrant ...Show more