Our Island by Alison Lester, Elizabeth Honey
$17.00 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
Our island lies beneath a big blue sky, surrounded by the turquoise sea. Turtles glide through the clear salt water, and dugongs graze on banks of seagrass. In this lyrical celebration of place, the children of Mornington Island explore their home in words and pictures. This is a collaboration with much ...Show more
A Soldier, A Dog and A Boy by Libby Hathorn, Phil Lesnie
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
A moving story, told completely in dialogue, about a young Australian soldier in the battle of the Somme. Walking through the fields away from the front, he finds what he thinks is a stray dog, and decides to adopt it as a mascot for his company. Then he meets Jacques, the homeless orphan boy who owns t ...Show more
The Beach They Called Gallipoli by Jackie French
$15.00 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
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
Seagull by Danny Snell
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
Seagull loves to fly. It makes her heart sing. But when she gets caught in a tangle of fishing line on the beach, Seagull can only watch as other birds fly effortlessly above. What can she do?
Joey Counts to Ten by Sally Morgan
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
Watch, look, listen and count! This tale's bright, colorful illustrations will enchant children as they find and learn Australian animals, and follow the mood of the weather as the story leads Joey from dawn to starlit night. More than just a counting book, this picture book can be used to discuss such ...Show more
Why I Love Australia: Little Hare Books by Bronwyn Bancroft
$15.00 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
In this magnificent celebration of country, Bronwyn Bancroft uses both images and words to explore the beauty of the Australian continent and to express the depth of her feelings about it. It is a unique showcase of reverence for landscape--from the coast and the outback to the cities and plains, and fr ...Show more
A House of Her Own by Jenny Hughes; Jonathan Bentley (Illustrator)
$18.00 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
Audrey is bigger than she was yesterday. Now she needs a bigger house. So she tells her dad to build her one. At the top of a tree. It is an ideal house. It has a bathtub for snorkeling, a place to drink tea, and somewhere to hide the dirty cups. The house is perfect in every way. Excep ...Show more
Banjo and Ruby Red by Libby Gleeson
$18.00 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books | Series: Little Hare Classics Ser.
A funny and touching story of antagonism and love, now in a board book Banjo is a hardworking farm dog and Ruby Red is a haughty chicken, and they never see eye to eye. But when Ruby Red falls ill, the tables seem about to turn. Stunning illustrations perfectly capture the endearing personalities of bo ...Show more
The Big Fish (HB) by Pamela Allen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
Once upon a timea little old man, a little old woman,a small boy and a small girlwent to spend the day by the river. The little old man wanted to catch a big fishand soon there was a tug-tug-tug on his line . . . Find out what happens next? From much-loved picture-book creator comes another delightfu ...Show more
William Bligh: A Stormy Story of Tempestuous Times (HB) by Michael Sedunary
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
Age range 9 to 12 William Bligh: a stormy story of tempestuous times unpeels the layers of some of the most incredible circumstances in Australia's colonial history. Some people may have heard of the famous mutiny on the bounty; others may have heard of the rum rebellion coup; but the details in and aro ...Show more
D'harawal Climate and Natural Resources by Frances Bodkin
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
Knowledge is the Prime Resource! The pursuit of knowledge is perhaps life's greatest challenge. Traditionally Aboriginal peoples cared for the land, living as one with it. This custodial relationship, expressed through cultural practices, sustained the natural environment and secured the viability of re ...Show more
What's in My Lunchbox (PB) by Peter Carnavas
$15.00 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
Today in my lunchbox I happened to find... What could be inside the lunchbox? An apple? A bear? A dinosaur?