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Fire Wombat (PB) by Jackie French
14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
As the bushfire swallowed up the world they knew, a wombat shared her burrow with other animals.Longlisted in the 2021 Australian Book Industry Awards and a 2021 Children's Book Council Notable Book. As the flames of a bushfire approach, one small wombat shelters with other animals in her burrow. But th ...Show more
Flood by Jackie French
16.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books | Series: Flood
This is a story that shows how strong and devastating flood water can be to homes and livelihoods. It is inspired by the 2011 Queensland floods but it could be about any of the disasters that strike our land, and the events that turn everyday Australians into heroes. Flood depicts water mercilessly ripp ...Show more
Goat Who Sailed the World, The (The Animal Stars #1) by Jackie French
14.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Animal Stars Ser.
Captain Cook's goat had already sailed around the world before it went on its first voyage with Cook, and helped save everyone on board the ship from scurvy. As well as telling the story of this less-than- famous goat, the book looks at the great sea explorations of the eighteenth century, including Coo ...Show more
Gold Rush (Fair Dinkum Histories All the Stinky Bits) by Jackie French
14.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: FAIR DINKUM HISTORIES
Telling BITS of history as they really were! Gold fever hit Australia in the 1850s and it was the start of a wild, crazy hunt that saw people from all over the world come to try their luck. A few people might have dug up a fortune, but what most diggers dug was latrines. It turns out that the Gold Rush ...Show more
Goodbye, Mr Hitler by Jackie French
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Matilda
Third title following on from the award-winning and best-selling HITLER'S DAUGHTER and PENNIES FOR HITLER. Ages: 10 years + This is the story of Johannes, and Frau Timmins, and the strange girl now known as 'Helga'. It is also the story of how they survived the death camps, the vast wilderness faced by ...Show more
Grandma Wombat (PB) by Jackie French, Bruce Whatley
14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
From the award-winning, best-selling creators of DIARY OF A WOMBAT comes another Wombat picture book - this time about more senior members of the species. Ages: 3+ She eats. She sleeps. She scratches. And like all grandmas, she thinks her grandson is the best-behaved baby ever. But this baby wombat has ...Show more
Grim Crims & Convicts (Fair Dinkum Histories #2) by Jackie French
16.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
It was the craziest, wildest and most daring expedition the world had ever seen. Eleven ships with nearly 15,000 people travelled 25,000 kilometers to the other side of the world. But what did they find when they arrived?
Happy Birthday Wombat by Jackie French; Bruce Whatley (Illustrator)
14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
Bestselling Mothball is back - with birthday cake! (Carrot, of course.) She eats, she sleeps, she scratches. But today it's Mothball's birthday and it's time to celebrate! Created by author Jackie French and illustrator Bruce Whatley, Happy Birthday Wombat is a very funny picture book about enjoying a ...Show more
Hitler's Daughter by Jackie French
16.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers | Series: Matilda
WINNER CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR YOUNGER READERS Did Hitler's daughter, Heidi, really exist? - What if she did? The bombs were falling and the smoke rising from the concentration camps, but all Hitler's daughter knew was the world of lessons with Fraulein Gelber and the hedgehogs she rescued from the co ...Show more
Hitler's Daughter: 25th Anniversary Edition by Jackie French
17.98 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
A special anniversary edition of a modern classic. The bombs were falling, the smoke was rising from the concentration camps, but Hitler's daughter knew nothing of this. All she knew was the world of lessons with Fraulein Gelber, the hedgehogs she rescued from the cold and the exciting visits from he ...Show more
Horace the Baker's Horse (HB) by Jackie French
24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
Horace is a very big horse with an even bigger heart. Every day he pulls the baker's cart and helps Old William, Big Bill and Young Billy take bread, buns and other doughy delights to all the people in the town. But when a terrible flu makes everyone sick, who is going to deliver the bread to hungry fam ...Show more
If Blood Should Stain The Wattle by Jackie French
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1972 in Gibber's Creek, and across the nation, the catchcry is, 'It's time'. Time for old folk, time for young folk, time for everyone to welcome a renewed Australia with a new, idealistic Labor Government. It's also time for Jed Kelly to choose between past love, Nicholas, the Labor member for Gibbe ...Show more