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  • Dry to Dry

    Winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards, Eve Pownall Award for Information Books

    Illustrated by Liz Anelli ...
    Series series Nature Storybooks
    This Nature Storybook follow-up to the award-winning Desert Lake is a stunningly illustrated and extraordinary story of the yearly weather cycle and attendant changing wildlife of Kakadu National Park, from the Dry to the Wet to the Dry again.In the tropical wetlands and escarpments of Kakadu National Park, the seasons move from dry to wet to dry again. Those seasons have shaped the astonishing ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Desert Lake

    CBCA Book of the Year Awards, Eve Pownall Award for Information Books, Notable Book

    Illustrated by Liz Anelli ...
    Series series Nature Storybooks
    It's raining up north and soon everything will change for the desert lake. Desert Lake is now in paperback! The dry salt bed of Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre shimmers in the desert heat. But far up north, the rains have come. Water is flooding into empty riverbeds and swirling down towards the lake. Soon everything will change. A wonderful new addition to the acclaimed and award-winning Nature Storybook ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Seed to Sky

    Life in the Daintree

    Illustrated by Liz Anelli ...
    Series Book 56 - Nature Storybooks
    Nature StorybooksEvery wonderful word is true!In the oldest rainforest on Earth, on the oldest continent, a seed falls to the ground.Over hundreds of years, the seed will grow into a sapling reaching for the sunlight, to become a tree towering above the rainforest canopy.Generations of insects, butterflies, bird, lizards, snakes and an abundance of native wildlife will bear witness to the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Sidney of Sydney

    by Sue Whiting ...
    Illustrated by Liz Anelli ...
    Based on a true story, this is a charming and adorable tale of a little penguin lost in a big city. From award-winning author, Sue Whiting.Sydney is a big city with a busy harbour.Sidney is a young penguin … and he’s trouble.Sidney doesn’t mean to be trouble, he’s just curious. And one day that curiosity takes Sidney all over Sydney and on a grand adventure that lands Sidney in … TROUBLE!Based on ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Dad's Camera

    by Ross Watkins ...
    Illustrated by Liz Anelli ...
    A moving portrayal of love and loss captures who — and what — we leave behind once we’re gone.One day Dad comes home with one of those old cameras, the kind that uses film. But he doesn’t take photos of the regular things people photograph. He takes pictures of his keys, his coffee cup, the objects scattered on his desk. He starts doing a lot of things that are hard to understand, like putting ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    Illustrated by Jaelyn Biumaiwai ...
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  • Meanwhile Back on Earth

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    The captivating new companion to international bestsellers Here We Are and What We’ll BuildA father takes his two children on a thrilling out-of-this-world adventure into space and invites them to look back at Earth and the conflicts that have taken place since the beginning of time. This becomes a brief history of the world and a whistle-stop guide to the universe, all rolled into one – and told ... Read more

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  • Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief

    The CBCA Honour Book for 2022

    Award-winning writer Katrina Nannestad transports us to Russia and the Great Patriotic War and into the life of Sasha, a soldier at only six years old ...Wood splinters and Mama screams and the nearest soldier seizes her roughly by the arms. My sister pokes her bruised face out from beneath the table and shouts, 'Run, Sasha! Run!'So I run. I run like a rabbit.It's spring, 1942. The sky is blue, ... Read more

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  • Queenie in Seven Moves

    by Zanni Louise ...
    Amid the uncertainty of not having a permanent home, twelve-year-old Queenie finds unforeseen friendship—and unexpected confidence—in this warm, sensitive story addressing loss and belonging.To Queenie, home is Peachy, the little peach-walled house she’s lived in forever, all art deco and flaky paint. Always a provider of solace. But when she and her mom have to move out, suddenly one temporary ... Read more

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  • The Thing about Oliver

    by Deborah Kelly ...
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  • Yahoo Creek

    An Australian Mystery

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    SHORTLISTED: CBCA 2020 Eva Pownall Award for Information Books'He was surprised to observe a hairy human form, about seven feet in height, walking in the bush.' Queanbeyan Age, 24 August 1886Throughout the first century or so of Australian settlement by Europeans, the pages of colonial newspapers were haunted by reports of a bewildering phenomenon: the mysterious yahoo or hairy man ...But what was ... Read more

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