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Clancy of the Overflow (#9 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Intermediate | Series: The\Matilda Saga Ser.
From Australia's best-loved storyteller comes the final book in the bestselling Matilda Saga This is a love song to our nation, told in a single sweeping storyJed Kelly has finally persuaded her great aunt Nancy to tell the story of her grandparents. The tale that unfolds is one of Australia's greatest ...Show more
Diary of a Rescued Wombat: The by Jackie French, Bruce Whatley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Picture Books
Celebrating the twentieth anniversary, this is the story of Mothball, one of the world's most famous wombats - and where it all began. She is small. She is scared. She is lost.She is a baby wombat who needs a home. She is Mothball, a wombat destined to become famous. This is the (almost) true story of ...Show more
Diary of a Wombat (PB) by Jackie French, Bruce Whatley
$16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Picture Books
A delightful and entertaining peek into the life of one very busy wombat Ages: 3-7 MondayMorning: Slept.Afternoon: Slept.Evening: Ate.Scratched.Night: Ate.A typical day. Don't be fooled. this wombat leads a very busy and demanding life. She wrestles unknown creatures, runs her own digging business, and ...Show more
Dingo: The Dog Who Conquered a Continent (The Animal Stars #6) by Jackie French
$15.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Intermediate | Series: Animal Stars
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 Wombat (PB) by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Picture Books
As the bushfire swallowed up the world they knew, a wombat shared her burrow with other animals.Longlisted in the 2021 Australian Book Industry Awards and a 2021 Children's Book Council Notable Book. As the flames of a bushfire approach, one small wombat shelters with other animals in her burrow. But th ...Show more
Hitler's Daughter by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Intermediate | Series: Matilda
WINNER CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR YOUNGER READERS Did Hitler's daughter, Heidi, really exist? - What if she did? The bombs were falling and the smoke rising from the concentration camps, but all Hitler's daughter knew was the world of lessons with Fraulein Gelber and the hedgehogs she rescued from the co ...Show more
Jackie French's Chook Book by Jackie French
$24.95 AUD
Category: Gardening
Use this book, and you will love chickens too: love to keep them, scratching about in your own backyard; love to eat them, prepared from one of Jackie's many mouth-watering chicken-and-egg recipes. This completely revised edition's sections on poultry keeping and management have been greatly expanded, a ...Show more
Josephine Wants To Dance 10th Anniversary Edition by Jackie French, Bruce Whatley
$16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Picture Books
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of this wonderful story about dreams, believing in yourself ...and a dancing kangaroo. Josephine is a kangaroo - who loves to dance. Her little brother, Joey, tells her that kangaroos don't dance, they hop - but Josephine continues to point her toes and leap through the ...Show more
My Name Is Not Peaseblossom by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Intermediate
A FRESH REINTERPRETATION OF A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM BY THE AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN'S LAUREATE Titania rose to her feet. 'What is going on here, Peaseblossom?' she demanded. I bowed to her. 'I apologise, Your Majesty. But I'd rather be known as Pete.' 'Pete?' She frowned. 'That's no name for a fairy.' 'No ...Show more
Secret Sparrow by Jackie French
$17.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Intermediate
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 Ghost of Howlers Beach (Butter O'Bryan Mysteries #1) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Intermediate | Series: Butter O'Bryan Mysteries
Butter O'Bryan has been told there are ghosts on Howlers Beach, but are there? Howlers Beach, 1932 Butter O'Bryan lives in a Very Small Castle with his father and three aunts - Aunt Elephant, Aunt Cake and Aunt Peculiar. These aren't their real names, of course, just as Butter's father isn't really call ...Show more
The Great Gallipoli Escape by Jackie French
$17.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Intermediate
Renowned for her historical fiction titles, Jackie French now tells the story of the brilliant and famous evacuation of Gallipoli. Sixteen-year-old Nipper and his Gallipoli mates Lanky, Spud, Bluey and Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipped. By November 1915 they know that that there is mor ...Show more