What is memory? It is a storage place for all the things which form an individual – memory, body and genes.
This informative book about the brain and memory will excite readers as it answers questions that may have been a floating fog in their mind.
Suitable for all ages, it consists of animated illustrations, and entertaining prose in a light-hearted tone.
Where do memories go? In Our Marvelous Memory, we can solve these complex queries surrounding the brain and its functions.
His parents divorced because his dad couldn’t come to terms with his condition.
Connor has Tourette syndrome.
Dad turns up after two years, changed, and hoping to be a part of his son’s life again.
His persistence is scoffed at by Connor.
There is too much anger festering inside him toward his father, as he is unable to forgive his dad for accusing him of being able to control his tics and barks, and won't.
On the first day of school, Connor meets Amanda.
She begins a journey of discovery back through time.
In the company of her dog Tassie, the
weekend becomes a dedication to educating herself enough to complete her
project.
Until she encounters the ghost of the last Thylacine.
Thyla (what Violet names the presence), offers to help Violet obtain the knowledge needed to understand the how and why of extinction. The when, where and who join the group of unknowns.
Through conversations with Thyla, many facts about the extinct Thylacine and other marsupials are revealed and clarified.
We set out on a journey of adventure and discovery
through Australia’s landscapes to test our knowledge.
Every Rock Has a Story - An A to Z of Australian Geology,
goes through the alphabet, answering that question with a plethora of valuable information
encompassed between its stunning covers and end pages.
Beneath each letter has a subject title. A Fact
box at the bottom contains historical and educational information that will amaze.
Cloud Atlas takes this
scientific obsession up a level or atmosphere as it were. Presenting as a
benign coffee table type book, this beautiful collection of clouds speaks to
Nephophiles (lovers of all things cloudy) and curious kids alike.
Addressing the most obvious curiosity first, what
exactly are clouds and how do they form, author and cloud compiler, Sarah
Zambello moves quickly on to the classification of clouds, which it turns out,
is a skyful of intriguing Latin-based nomenclature. But there’s no cause to
feel smothered by all these terms because each is described in simple engaging language
and accompanied by an identifying illustration.
Thank you to ALL who entered. We were moved by your your feel good answers.
Grief, loss, depression, anxiety, uncertainty. Big hard-to-deal-with feels that demand big help.
This Is Not A Sad Book is that help. In short, it’s a lighthouse of hope, explanation and tactics to apply when one finds oneself or someone they know, in a dark, scary, perilous place.
I have loved poetry ever since I was a small person,
and so any chance to check out a new poetry book is always so very welcome. This volume of magical poems is just a beautiful little jewel, and though
clearly published with a view to the education market, would make a truly
delightful gift for any child who revels in verse.
Cookson has gathered together a wonderful selection:
short, not-so-short, humorous, more serious, purely magical or just with a hint
of whimsy, contemporary writers and older ones, including Shakespeare and Lewis
Carroll, but all of them absolutely enchanting and just begging to be read
aloud.
Without a doubt my favourite has to be, Somewhere in the Library by Stewart Henderson
– watch this poet reads his work to great effect here.
Discover
first hand Michelle Obama’s modest childhood growing up in the Robinson family.
Along with her older brother Craig, they lived in an upstairs apartment in her
Great Aunt’s place on the south side of Chicago.
Her
parents taught them to work hard and remember to laugh, how to think for
themselves and be unafraid to use their voice for what they believed in.
In
the early 1980s, Michelle attended Princeton University and slowly adjusted to
life away from home - discovering the fast and exciting pace of New York.
With
Michelle’s aptitude, sitting for law exams become a natural progression of her
academic life. She soon found herself applying for Law Schools with the next
stop being Harvard University. Law was not her passion, but she did what was
expected of her.
The answer to this is complicated but the idea for the book came from a conversation I had with a friend who taught English at tertiary level.
She was bemoaning the fact that most of her students, fresh out of high school, had never heard of Australia’s only Nobel Laureate for Literature and that those few who had heard of him had a cavalier disregard of his work because of their postmodern, postcolonial, feminist criticisms.
