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Blueback: Australian Children's Classics by Tim Winton
$26.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Bluebackis an achingly beautiful story about family, belonging, and living a life in tune with the environment, from Tim Winton, one of Australia's best-loved authors.'Winton ... convince(s) us of the preciousness of our oceans not through lectures but through his characters' steady wonder.' New York Ti ...Show more
Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles
$14.99 NZD
Category: Books of Buderim | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tired of his life as an emu, Edward decides to try being something else for a change. He tries swimming with the seals, he spends a day lounging with the lions, and even slithers with the snakes. But Edward soon discovers that being an emu may be the best thing after all. Sheena Knowles's upbeat, rhymin ...Show more
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Australian Children's Classics) by Joan Lindsay; Allison Colpoys (Illustrator)
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
SOON TO BE A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES STARRING NATALIE DORMER (GAME OF THRONES). 'Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock - a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with cicadas shrilling...' St Valentine's Day, in the midst of the hot summer of 1900, a party of sc ...Show more
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
Short excerpt: Without doubt she was the worst of the seven probably because she was the cleverest. Her brilliant inventive powers plunged them all into ceaseless scrapes.
The Rainbow Serpent by Dick Roughsey
$14.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
A timeless classic from the Dreamtime. there are innumerable names and stories associated with the Rainbow Serpent, all of which communicate the significance of this being within Aboriginal traditions. Dreamtime stories tell how the Rainbow Serpent came from beneath the ground and created huge ridges, m ...Show more
The Rainbow Serpent 50th Anniversary Edition (HB) by Dick Roughsey
$29.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
Celebrating fifty years - a timeless classic from the Dreamtime. Dreamtime stories tell how the Rainbow Serpent came from beneath the ground and created huge ridges, mountains and gorges as it pushed upward. The name also reflects the snake-like meandering of water across a landscape and the colour spec ...Show more
Waltzing Matilda by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson; Desmond Digby (Illustrator)
$14.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 1-2, Age 6-7
This ballad of the sheep-stealing swagman is known the world over. Here, with 'Banjo' Paterson's original lyrics and Freya Blackwood's stunning ochre-toned paintings, we are treated not just to the swagman's story, but to the story of the shearers' strikes of the time, of the squatter's family, and of t ...Show more
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