Presented in immense detail, the contents will delight and fascinate both children and older people.
Stunning front, end papers depict the sizes of the flying machines, featured together with their length and wingspan, beginning from the largest to the smallest.
Unable to even write their name, they were made fun of, called awful things, and bullied at school.
This is not a pessimistic story.
It is a story filled with messages of strength, perseverance, courage, self-confidence, kindness, and hope.
Anthony unashamedly shares his initial fears and struggles, and how, when a child, people made him feel insignificant.
That’s right, time slip. In the same
vein as their popular co-authored middle grade fiction, Elsewhere Girls,
Gale and Weetman take readers on a heady journey into Victoria’s High Country where
they oscillate between 2024 and 1878 and two renegade girls, Ruby and Kate.
Ruby is headstrong and wilful, the daughter of a single mother living in the 21st Century with a dislike for conformity and school work. She has an addiction for petty crime; stealing chocolate bars from the local IGA rates as high entertainment amongst her and her possy of like-minded friends.
It trails through 400 facts of which many are linked in subject but can be read at random.
This book is for children and adults, as it has unbelievable,
amazing, incredible, frequently funny facts about our world, the people and
places in it.
For fans of trivia and short informative bits and
pieces, these books should have a place on your bookshelf to be dipped into
whenever you choose, simply for pleasure.
Interesting and rare subjects pop up.
Thank you to ALL who entered. Your answers filled our Christmas cups with cheer and incredible warmth. Merry Christmas!
The fluffle of bunnies who play together as a footy team are dispirited, because all their adversaries are bigger, faster and stronger than they are.
So, wily old Crow suggests a solution – he will go and find some other creatures to boost their side, and help the bunny team to play even better.
When Grace Cahill, grandmother and guardian of Amy
and Dan dies, the shocking news that she has changed her Will at the last
moment, becomes a magnet that draws together the countless branches of a
lineage that boasts many famous and powerful people, including Benjamin
Franklin.
A seismic shift occurs in the sibling’s lives. They no longer have a home or protector, but are now at the mercy of greedy, privileged relatives that will stop at nothing to get their hands on more money.
Paul Kelly is one of Australia's best known musical storytellers, and one of his recent creations shares the story of Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja.
The song has been transformed into a picture book called Khawaja, with words by Paul Kelly and illustrations by Avinash Weerasekera.
Khawaja tells the story of how cricket was Usman's favourite game as a boy, and how he watched and played it, dreaming of a future playing for his country.
Title: If You Could See The Sun
Author: Ann Liang
Publisher: Ink Yard, $19.99
Publication Date: 3 November 2022
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781335915849
For ages: 12+
Type: Young Adult
Cathy ran
barefoot every day across the great ancient land, as her people had done for
sixty thousand years before.
As Cathy runs, she feels the heartbeat of the land through the very fibres of her being.
So when this heartbeat stops and she asks the land what is wrong, young Cathy listens carefully and understands that she has a job to do.
She must gather seeds from grasses and plants, and spread those seeds across the land.
Jørn Utzon is a child who sees the world through a very specific lens. Obsessed with building, creating and thinking outside the box, this is the story of how he harnesses both his own ideas and resilience in ways that don’t always make sense to others.
