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  • The Golden Day

    When their teacher goes missing during an outing, eleven girls grapple with the aftermath in this haunting, exquisitely told psychological mystery.The Vietnam War rages overseas, but back at home, in a year that begins with the hanging of one man and ends with the drowning of another, eleven schoolgirls embrace their own chilling history when their teacher abruptly goes missing on a field trip. ... Read more

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  • A Concise Compendium of Wonder

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    A radical collection of reimagined fairytales from three incredible Australian authors, for readers of all ages.In the middle of a great famine, two siblings are cast out into a forest that holds both danger and beauty. Perpetual winter descends upon a giant’s garden after rowdy children are shut out by a massive wall. In the year 3099, humans find themselves stranded on the Moon and turn to their ... Read more

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  • The Blue Cat

    Ursula Dubosarsky is the Australian Children's Laureate for 2020 - 2021A 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, the little boy from far ... Read more

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  • The Word Snoop

    A Wild and Witty Tour of the English Language!

    Illustrated by Tohby Riddle ...
    Meet the Word Snoop. She?s dashing and daring and witty as can be?and no one knows more about the evolution of the English language than she does. Luckily, she?s spilling her secrets in this gem of a book. From the first alphabet in 4000 BC, to anagrams, palindromes, and modern-day text messages, readers will learn all about the fascinating twists and turns our fair language has taken to become ... Read more

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  • Brindabella

    Ursula Dubosarsky is the Australian Children's Laureate for 2020 - 2021SHORT-LISTED: CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers, 2019This is a story about a boy called Pender and a kangaroo called Brindabella, about how they became friends, and all the things that happened to them because of it.Pender and his father live in an old house made of honey-coloured stone in the bush by the river, with only ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Game of the Goose

    In her hand was a hinged wooden box with a black clasp. On the lid was a painting of a white bird with a long neck, its wings stretched out in flight. Fred rubbed it with her fingers, wiping away the dust. 'The Game of the Goose,' she read slowly.'Open it,' said Rowley . . . Fred, Rowley and Rabbit hardly knew each other before the game. But the game changed everything. It took each of them on an ... Read more

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  • Mary and Marcus: The Crazy Dance and Other Stories

    Illustrated by Andrew Joyner ...
    Hook them on reading for life, with the fully illustrated adventures of Mary and Marcus.Contains five hilarious and silly stories, perfect for emerging readers!Mary is the happiest panda in the world.She loves to sing and dance and play the ukulele.But sometimes things get out of hand!Lucky she has her best friend, Marcus the snake, to help her out.From Australian Children's Laureate Ursula ... Read more

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  • Hercules Quick's Big Bag of Tricks

    A hilarious and charming story about a boy and his amphibious friend who do a series of odd jobs for their eccentric neighbours, from an Australian Children's Laureate and the bestselling creators of The Terrible Plop.Ursula Dubosarsky was the Australian Children's Laureate 2020-2021Hercules Quick wants to be a magnificent magician. He just needs a special box of magic tricks. But the box is ... Read more

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  • The Red Shoe

    Ursula Dubosarsky is the Australian Children's Laureate for 2020 - 2021The 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 shining sword and chocolate ... Read more

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  • The Becky Collection

    Illustrated by Mitch Vane ...
    Join Becky as she builds a cubby, performs magic tricks, gives her toys a bath, makes fairy bread and puts on a puppet show. She might be hard to keep up with but she's so much fun!From the combined talents of Ursula Dubosarsky and Mitch Vane comes this funny and delightful collection of Aussie Nibbles, featuring a much-loved character from the series. ... Read more

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  • The Red Shoe

    Funny, tough-minded and tender, this is the story of Matilda and her two sisters growing up in Sydney, Australia, in the early 1950s. Their father is mentally unstable and largely absent, their mother is possibly in the thrall of his brother, and a headline-making Russian spy defection is taking place next door. Punctuated by the headlines of the times, The Red Shoe depicts how the large events of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Too Many Elephants in this House

    Illustrated by Andrew Joyner ...
    In Eric's house there were too many elephants - in the living room, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, even in his bedroom!The elephants take up a lot of space, but Eric loves every one of them. So when his mum says they have to go, Eric comes up with a clever solution to a very BIG problem . . .From the creators of The Terrible Plop comes this delightfully energetic story, full of fun and ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD