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A Day to Remember by Jackie French
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Picture Books | Reading Level: very good
"Each year on 25 April, the nation stops to remember. This is the history of that day. This beautiful picture book traces the story of Anzac Day through the last century. From those who first stood in silence at dawn, and wore rosemary or poppies for remembrance, to children of today who wear their gran ...Show more
Dingo: The Dog Who Conquered a Continent (The Animal Stars #6) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Novels | Series: Animal Stars | Reading Level: 9+
Jackie French's critically acclaimed and best-selling ANIMAL STARS series looks at history through the eyes of an animal. Ages: 9-13 All of Australia's dingoes may be descended from one south-east Asian 'rubbish dog' who arrived here over 5,000 years ago. This is a story about the first dingo. It is als ...Show more
Fire by Jackie French
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Picture Books | Series: Fire
One small spark brought fire awake, Winding like a small black snake, Fire flickered, fire crept, Flames snickered, bushfire leapt... Inspired by the bushfires that have affected many Australians, Fire is a moving and sensitive story of a natural disaster as seen through the eyes of a cockatoo. The fire ...Show more
Goat Who Sailed the World, The (The Animal Stars #1) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Novels | 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
Ming and Flo Fight for the Future (#1 The Girls Who Changed the World) (CBCA Notable 2023) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Novels | Series: The\Girls Who Changed the World Ser.
An empowering and exhilarating look at the girls who went before us, and the way they shaped the world. Twelve-year-old Ming Qong is convinced that girls must have changed the world, even if they are rarely mentioned in history books. So when Ming gets the chance to go back in time she imagines herself ...Show more
Ming and Hilde Lead a Revolution (The Girls Who Changed the World, #3) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Novels | Series: The\Girls Who Changed the World Ser.
The third book in the best-selling Jackie French historical series that places girls centre stage. Ming Qong is convinced that girls have changed history throughout the world. She's faced danger and adventure when Herstory sent her to the past to witness girls' bravery in the incredible feats left out ...Show more
Natural Control of Garden Pests by Jackie French
$21.95 AUD
Category: New Gardening
Covers techiques for natural pest control of flower and vegetable gardens, orchards and small farms. Includes sections on companion planting, birds and other pest predators, descriptions of Australia's common pests, and the creation and use of organic pesticides and fungicides.
Plague by Jackie French
$26.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Picture Books
From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire, Cyclone, Drought, Pandemic and Earthquake ... Grass and wheat-lands spread to the horizon, and so did we, with too few ibis to control us. We could rage across the land. We ate the grass, the leaves, the wheat ...
Rain Stones 25th Anniversary Edition (Short Stories) by Jackie French
$17.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Novels
Anniversary edition of the first book Jackie French published with A & R. This is where a truly remarkable career began. 'Rain Stones' and the other stories in this collection reveal that the country is a magical place, that there is an extra dimension to be found by those whose minds and hearts are ...Show more
Secret Sparrow by Jackie French
$17.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Novels
This is the story of women who fought during WW1, but not as nurses or ambulance drivers. In 1917 sixteen-year-old Jean McLain is working as a Post Office assistant in England. But when she wins a national Morse code competition, the British army makes a request Jean cannot refuse – to take a secret pos ...Show more
The Beach They Called Gallipoli (HB) by Jackie French; Bruce Whatley
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Picture Books | Reading Level: 7+
An extraordinary exploration of Gallipoli created by the incredible Jackie French and Bruce Whatley Many books have been written about the battles of Gallipoli; the men who went to war and what they faced, the letters, and the tears of those left behind. But this is a book about Gallipoli, the place, an ...Show more
The Camel Who Crossed Australia (The Animal Stars #3) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Novels | Series: Animal Stars Ser. | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 2-3, Age 7-8
Transported from his beloved Afghan plains and mountains to Australia, Rajah the camel is forced to join the baggage train for famous 19th century explorers Burke and Wills as they embark on an expedition to cross the continent from south to north for the first time.