Books

Age range 6+Stephanie Owen Reeder's Heritage Heroes series celebrates stories of incredible survival, persistence and resilience by young people. This book binds together the five original, beloved stories with two brand new ones:Brave Bee and the...

Age range 3 to 6Christmas is coming and Ayla wants a snowman just like in her book, but there is no snow to be found in her drought-stricken town, not even a drop of rain. Only bales of hay.Ayla's Christmas Wish is inspired by the small, south-west...

**Shortlisted, 2024 Queensland Literary Awards, The Courier-MailPeople'sChoiceQueenslandBook of the YearAward**William T. Cooper is considered a master painter of birds. He painted them for many books, mainly bird monographs. He also created...

From sea-stained dispatches to data sent back from deep space, Southern Signals is the story of Australia's use of communications to bridge vast distances through war and peace, exploration and growth.Communications have been vital at every stage of...

Sport is a story telling machine. When we watch a game, race or competition, there are all the makings of a great tale. There are heroes and villains. There are challenges to overcome. There is a sense of jeopardy and risk. There is triumph and failure,...

Age range 4 to 6Come and meet the Phonobet, old Alpha Betty's twin,The set of all the sounds you use when waggling your chin.Phonobet is a modern-day, Australian answer to Dr Seuss's ABC. This very clever rhyming text takes an onomatopoeic romp through...

Age range 4+Captain Thunderbolt was known as the 'gentleman bushranger'. He didn't like violence, was always polite, and even paid back most of the money he stole. In Captain Thunderbolt's Recital, author Jane Jolly retells the true tale of one of the...

Age range 5+*WINNER ABIA Small Publisher Children's Book of the Year**WINNER MAPDA Children's Book Design Award**SHORTLISTED CBCA Eve Pownall Award for Information Books**NOTABLE BOOK CBCA Picture Book**NOTABLE BOOK CBCA Younger...

In Bold Types, Patricia Clarke recounts the chequered journey of women journalists in the fight for gender equality from 1860 to the end of World War II. These were independent, adventurous women who ventured far and wide in search of news, relevance and...

Alec Bolton and His Brindabella Press is an account of a passion: that of a publisher and the books he made for himself and his friends, keeping alive craft traditions that were threatened by unrelenting change.'Printing is like religion', Alec Bolton...

William T. Cooper was one of the world's most esteemed bird painters. In his paintings, birds nibble at plump red berries, they rest on twisted vines and branches covered with lichen, and they clutch forest fruits and leaves in their claws. These...

Winner of the 2019 CBCAEve Pownall Award for Information BooksAge range 7+There was a hum of excitement. Flags flickered in the breeze as Maggie's heart danced with delight. 'This is a very special day!' her mother said.Maggie...

*Honour Book for the CBCA Book of the Year 2021: Eve Pownall Award for information books*Age range 8+Giom, Anco and Duramboi are the names of just three young shipwreck survivors and convict escapees who were given refuge by Indigenous communities during...

Written by former Deputy Prime Minister, The Honourable Tim Fischer, Steam Australia paints a fascinating picture of Australian steam transportation over ten vital decades of transformation; from two world wars, to changes in leadership and even a visit...

The Sophia's Question: Teacher Resource Book is designed to help the teacher develop an inquiring classroom community, in which students use questioning, justification, conceptual exploration and reasoning to explore issues and ideas together. To assist...

In this revised and expanded edition of Janet Reakes's bestselling guide, comprehensive listings of convicts sent over on the First, Second and Third Fleets make the task that much easier of establishing convict ancestry. In this useful book, the author...

How many of us have found ourselves hampered in our work and at home because we can't take a balanced view. If this is you then you're probably a lop-sided left or right brain person. This imbalance shows in other ways too: some of us...

Follow along as One Little Dung Beetle counts all kinds of fascinating creepies and crawlies. How many can you see?

The evacuation from Gallipoli of Australian and New Zealand troops was a logistically incredible undertaking. The exhausted young men were to slip away by ship in the dead of night. But… Someone needed to remain behind to cover for their fellow...

The students of Mount Mayhem Primary are on their school trip to Canberra. Their teacher, Ms Sparks says they will visit places of National Significance and learn about Australian History and Government. Who knew Canberra could be so interesting!

Fire trucks, police cars and ambulances too!Here come the vehicles to rescue you!A delightful picture book about the people who keep us safe and the vehicles getting them where they need to be.

The Earth’s climate is changing. It’s getting hotter. In Australia over the past 50 years, maximum temperatures have been creeping higher. There have been record droughts, floods and bushfires. Why is this happening and what can we do to stop it getting...

Matthew Flinders was a country boy who wanted to be a sailor. He lived at a time when ocean voyages took months, sometimes years. His life at sea was full of adventure and danger. He was the first to sail all the way around Australia. He drew the first...

Little Lon scrapes back the layers of history to show how people lived and worked in a post settlement Australian city. Behind the grand buildings of the big streets was Little Lon. A working-class district of little houses and narrow lanes, bursting...

Australia is a big place. It covers 7.7 million square kilometres. You would think it would be easy to find, but it stayed hidden from everyone but its First People for a very long time. Australia’s coastline was discovered piece by piece. Mapping the...

Collaborating with artist Anna Pignataro, we have created a calendar for 2025 called Champignons, introducing a gorgeous mushroom illustration each month.

A Parisian dream... We have created this beautiful Calendar called A Secret World in collaboration with Elise Hurst.

Age range 5 to 9Claire's family has moved from Australia to Vietnam and the little girl finds herself lost in the busy, bustling streets of Hanoi, until she finds the red bridge and a new friend to show her the way.Kylie Dunstan's stunning collage...

Age range 5+ Annoying, bored, creative and daring, AlphaKid is every kid-at their best (kind, loving), worst (impatient, unreasonable) and in between (smelly, odd). Packed with heart and humour, kids of all ages will smirk and titter at this A...

Age range 6 to 9 There are as many mistruths as there are truths about James Co ok and his famous first Voyage of discovery, including his secret orders to find the mythical 'Great Southern Continent'.This book shows a new side to this voyage...