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The Blue Cat by Ursula Dubosarsky
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
A boy stood in the playground under the big fig tree. 'He can't speak English,' the children whispered. Sydney, 1942. The war is coming to Australia - not only with the threat of bombardment, but also the arrival of refugees from Europe. Dreamy Columba's world is growing larger. She is drawn to Ellery, ...Show more
The Carousel by Ursula Dubosarsky
$24.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books
"One winter's day my dad and I, Went down to see the carousel. We stood and watched as round and round, The little horses rose and fell." So begins the magical journey of a small girl and a wooden horse. A journey of music and mirrors, of green hills and sunlit skies, of wishes and freedom. From this mu ...Show more
The Deep End (Puffin Nibbles) by Ursula Dubosarsky
$10.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: Aussie Nibbles
Becky has reached the point in her swimming lessons when she has stopped being a Frog and has moved up to be a Platypus. She has to go into the deep end, and she's not at all sure that she's ready for it. She wishes she could be a Frog for just a little while longer.
The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky
$20.00 AUD
Category: Y.A Fiction
There were only eleven of them, like eleven sisters all the same age in a large family. Because it was such a very small class, they had a very small classroom, which was perched at the very top of the school. Then in the Gardens they meet a poet. What follows is inexplicable, shocking, a scandal. What ...Show more
The Looming Lamplight (The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno & Alberta #2) by Ursula Dubosarsky
$9.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (5 to 8 years) | Series: The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno & Alberta
The second in the series featuring the guinea pig detective and his sleuthing cousin Coco Carlomagno, the well-respected (if somewhat easily startled) Chief of Police, has run into an unusually difficult problem. From his office high in the Obelisco, Buenos Aires' tallest building, he can see a light ...Show more
The Missing Mongoose (The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno & Alberta #3) by Ursula Dubosarsky
$9.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (5 to 8 years) | Series: The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno & Alberta
The third delightfully funny detective story and puzzle book featuring the mystery solving guinea pig duoIt's a national emergency! A rare and extremely valuable mongoose is missing and the legendary Buenos Aires zoo is in chaos. But with rabbits in the Tigers' Taj Mahal and hippos in Panda's Palace, th ...Show more
The Perplexing Pineapple: The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno (and Alberta) Bk 1 by Ursula Dubosarsky
$9.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (5 to 8 years) | Series: The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno & Alberta
Buenos Aires' Chief of Police, Coco Carlomagno, is sure his office high in the Obelisco is haunted. Every day at the same time he sees a floating pineapple and every day he hears a terrible noise. What could it mean? Who could it be? There's only one guinea pig Coco can turn to to help him in his hour o ...Show more
The Red Shoe by Ursula Dubosarsky
$20.00 AUD
Category: Y.A Fiction
The earth smelt strong to Matilda and full of things growing and dying all at the same time. She thought about the grey-green tangled bush at the end of her street, full of cowboys and Red Indians, waiting with their guns and their bows and arrows. She thought about the Japs and the Germans and the shin ...Show more
The Return of the Word Spy by Ursula Dubosarsky
$24.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Word Spy
From the beginning of time, the WORD SPY has been creeping down hallways, hiding in shadows and journeying through different lands to discover everything there is to know about the English language. In her first book, The Word Spy, she shared with us the secrets she'd learnt about English, from the firs ...Show more
The Terrible Plop by Ursula Dubosarsky, Andrew Joyner
$17.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Here is the story of the Terrible PLOP, with a bear and a rabbit, and a hop hop hop. But what is the PLOP? And where does it hide? Open the book and look inside ...
The Word Spy by Ursula Dubosarsky
$18.00 AUD
Category: Information Books | Series: Word Spy
Dear Readers, You may not know me, but I know you ...I am - the WORD SPY. I have been in hiding for many, many years, but the time has now come at last for me to emerge from undercover and share some of the secrets I have learned in my many, many years as - the WORD SPY. Oh - there goes another word. I ...Show more
The Word Spy (HB) by Ursula Dubosarsky
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: Word Spy
Discover the meaning of acronyms, cliches and spoonerisms. Find out the history of the alphabet, punctuation, pen names and plurals. Learn how to trick your friends by speaking in Pig Latin or rhyming slang. This entertaining, quirky and enlightening look at the English language is full of games, puzzle ...Show more