Lost Thing by Shaun Tan, Shaun Tan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books | Reading Level: Children's - Kindergarten, Age 5-6
The Lost Thing is a humorous story about a boy who discovers a bizarre-looking creature whilst out collecting bottle-tops at the beach. Having guessed that it is lost, he tries to find out who owns it or where it belongs, but the problem is met with indifference by everyone else, who barely notice it's ...Show more
The Rabbits by John Marsden
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books | Series: The Official Pokemon Ear
The Rabbits offers a rich and immensely valuable perspective on the effect of man on his environment. Visually loaded and told with a passion for truth and understanding, The Rabbits aims to promote cultural awareness and a sense of caring for the natural world. A rich and haunting allegory for all age ...Show more
The Viewer (PB) by Gary Crew, illustrated Shaun Tan
$17.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
Young Tristan, a curious boy who rescues all sorts of objects from the rubbish dump, finds an old Viewmaster in its elaborate box, complete with a set of disks. He finds that these represent the ages of humankind, seen as a cyclical structure in which patterns of growth and decay are repeated. Tristan b ...Show more
The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery by Graeme Base
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books | Series: Picture Puffins Ser. | Reading Level: Under 6
When Horace the elephant turns eleven, he celebrates instyle by inviting his exotic friends to a splendid costume party. But a mystery is afoot, for in the midst of the games, music, and revelry, someone has eaten the birthday feast. The rhyming text and lavish, detailed illustrations each provide clues ...Show more
Mulga Bill's Bicycle (PB) by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson (Niland)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
An illustrated version of the popular Australian poet's verse.
One Woolly Wombat 30th Anniversary Edition by Kerry Argent
$17.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
This new edition of one of Australia's favourite Early Childhood counting books presents for a new audience the magic of dancing kangaroos, loalas sipping gumnut tea with lamingtons, goannas creating havoc in the kitchen and kookaburras writing with old-fashioned fountain pens. The special 30th annivers ...Show more
I Saw Nothing: The Extinction of the Thylacine by Gary Crew
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
Rosie never liked Elias Churchill, and she liked him even less when he trapped the last tiger-wolf ever to be seen. Churchill didn t kill the tiger-wolf for its bounty he bundled it into a cage, scratched and bloody, and sent it by train to some unknown place. It was moaning and sad. It liked its freedo ...Show more
The Jewel Fish of Karnak by Graeme Base
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
Far away in Ancient Egypt, Jackal and Ibis are brought before the Cat Pharaoh to be punished for stealing from the town market. In a merciful moment, the Pharaoh decides to give the two friends one last chance: they must journey up the River Nile to the temple of Karnak and bring back something that has ...Show more
A Forest by Marc Martin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
There once was a forest...So begins this timeless and touching story of renewal from one of Australia's most talented new picture-book creators.
A Bus Called Heaven by Bob Graham
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
How did it get there? Everyone wonders - but nobody knows. Then, out from the shadows steps Stella. She climbs onto the bus and, in a moment, sees everything that it could become: 'This bus could be ours', she says. And so, the lonely old bus - with the help of some colourful graffiti - becomes a hub of ...Show more
Queen Victoria's Underpants by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
A very funny story about the most famous underwear in the British Empire.Ages: 4+ Meet Lizzy, whose family are in the clothing industry. Very few people probably know that Queen Victoria made the wearing of underpants popular. At the beginning of her reign very few women wore them. But Queen Victoria ma ...Show more
The Hero of Little Street (HB) by Gregory Rogers
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books | Series: Boy Bear
Escaping from a gang of bullies, a Boy slips into a grand old gallery - the perfect hiding place, full of mystery and treasures. Enchanted by the magic of painting and befriended by a mischievous dog, the Boy ventures into the world of a famous Vermeer painting - and he and his new friend are transporte ...Show more