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The Secret of the Black Bushranger (Secret History #3) by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | Series: The\Secret History Ser.
The third in a series that explores our secret history By the 1790s orphaned Barney Bean finally has his own farm in the early NSW colony. All his dreams are coming true But now we are to learn of Barney's biggest secret yet: how he helped Australia's first bushranger escape. Was Black Caesar a wronge ...Show more
The Shaggy Gully Times by Jackie French
$25.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Publisher's description: Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a wombat, a sheep and a dancing kangaroo - And they're on the front page of The Shaggy Gully Times! The small bush town of Shaggy Gully is home to many animals, including local celebrities Mothball, Pete and Josephine. P ...Show more
The Shaggy Gully Times: The Funniest Newspaper You'll Ever Read by Jackie French
$17.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: 5-8
Welcome, readers, to The Shaggy Gully Times, the punniest newspaper you'll ever read! Ages 4+ Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a wombat, a sheep and a dancing kangaroo - And they're on the front page of the Shaggy Gully times! the small bush town of Shaggy Gully is home to many ...Show more
The Tomorrow Book by Jackie French
$25.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: 4-8
A timely picture book about a young prince who is determined to rule over a country where the future is filled with environmental hope - and practical solutions, such as common usage of solar and wind power. Lively, fun and positive, this book serves to give young people information about their world a ...Show more
The Turtle and the Flood by Jackie French
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
A companion title to the best-selling The Fire Wombat, this is the story of Myrtle, a small turtle who, by heading uphill, tells the other animals that a flood is coming. Myrtle the turtle knows everything about the waterhole where she lives in the creek. She can also sense the giant flood that is comi ...Show more
This Is Home: Essential Australian Poems For Children (HB) by Jackie French (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-fiction
In This Is Home, much-loved author Jackie French has gathered a poem for every child and every mood. What do you feel like doing today? Sit beside a bush campfire with Oodgeroo Noonuccal, watch people going by with Henry Lawson, float away with Alison Lester, learn to read with Andy Griffiths or be brav ...Show more
To Love a Sunburnt Country (#4 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | Series: The Matilda Saga
In war-torn Malaya, Nancy dreams of Australia - and a young man called Michael. The year is 1942 and the world is at war. Nancy Clancy left school at fourteen to spend a year droving, just like her grandfather Clancy of the Overflow. Now sixteen, Nancys family has sent her to Malaya to bring home her si ...Show more
To the Moon and Back by Jackie French; Bryan Sullivan
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
'... FASCINATING INSIGHTS INTO THE PART THAT THE AUSTRALIANS PLAYED IN GETTING THE ASTRONAUTS TO THE MOON AND BACK.'-- Bestselling author, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki Who were the Honeysuckle Creek mob? And how did they assist the first moon landing? When man took the first step on the moon it was a bunch of A ...Show more
Tom Appleby, Convict Boy by Jackie French
$14.95 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | Reading Level: From 10 To 99
Tom Appleby, eight year old chimney sweep is convicted of stealing and sentenced to deportation to Botany Bay. This book tells of a colony that, despite its natural abundance, cannot offer what the colonists want. While the people's health is better than ever, their morale is low as they wait for news f ...Show more
Too Many Pears! by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Pamela the cow loves pears, and will do just about anything to get them. But will anyone else ever get to eat a pear again? Certainly not until Pamela has had her fill . . . and chooses something else to eat!
Tornado (HB) - Natural Disasters by Jackie French
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire, Cyclone, Drought, Pandemic, Earthquake and Plague. I was born of twisting air, touching ground and spinning there. Do not laugh, just feed me thunder, I will soar and roar and plunder ...
Valley of Gold: One Valley's Stories of Gold Through the Ages by Jackie French
$14.95 AUD
Category: Chapter Books
One valley's stories of gold through the ages Interspersed with historical and geological information are stories that bring to life the valley and its occupants. First, around 35,000 BC, we meet Mirrigan, a young Aboriginal man hunting the last of the mainland thylacine to present its skin to his femal ...Show more