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Fair Dinkum Histories #5: A Nation of Swaggies and Diggers by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction
The Australian colonies had come a long way since they were a dump for grim crims and convicts. Life was comfortableat least for some. But soon drought would send swaggies waltzing their matildas along the roads, and bad times would make politicians dream of uniting the country into one nation. And then ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories 6 - Weevils W by FRENCH Jackie
$15.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
1920-1945, an iconic period in Australian history: Qantas founded, the Sydney Harbour Bridge built, Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup and dies in the US, Don Bradman wows the world at the wicket and becomes the main target in the Bodyline series. The Depression hits. Australia enters WW II. Aborigines lob ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #6: Weevils, War and Wallabies by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
1920-1945, an iconic period in Australian history: QANTAS founded, the Sydney Harbour Bridge built, Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup and dies in the US, Don Bradman wows the world at the wicket and becomes the main target in the Bodyline series. The Depression hits. Australia enters WW II. Aborigines lob ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #8: Booms, Busts & Bushfires by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
Australia had changed before, but slowly. Now everything was fast! Attitudes were evolving, technology was changing every aspect of life, and people were starting to recognise the damage we were doing to our landand the way Australia's Indigenous people had been mistreated. Our resources had made us a r ...Show more
Fire by Jackie French; Bruce Whatley (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
$29.00 (13% off)
Category: Children's Hardback
One small spark brought fire awake, Winding like a small black snake, Fire flickered, fire crept, Flames snickered, bushfire leapt... Inspired by the bushfires that have affected many Australians, Fire is a moving and sensitive story of a natural disaster as seen through the eyes of a cockatoo. The fire ...Show more
Fire by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books | Series: Fire
One small spark brought fire awake, Winding like a small black snake, Fire flickered, fire crept, Flames snickered, bushfire leapt... Inspired by the bushfires that have affected many Australians, Fire is a moving and sensitive story of a natural disaster as seen through the eyes of a cockatoo. The fire ...Show more
Fire Wombat (HB) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's Hardback
As the bushfire swallowed up the world they knew, a wombat shared her burrow with other animals. As the flames of the bushfire approach, one small wombat is bravely followed by other animals to the safety of her underground burrow. From best-selling author and Australian Children's Laureate, Jackie Fre ...Show more
Fire Wombat (PB) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's 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
Flood by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books | Series: Flood
This is a story that shows how strong and devastating flood water can be to homes and livelihoods. It is inspired by the 2011 Queensland floods but it could be about any of the disasters that strike our land, and the events that turn everyday Australians into heroes. Flood depicts water mercilessly ripp ...Show more
Goat Who Sailed the World, The (The Animal Stars #1) by Jackie French
$12.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Animal Stars Ser.
Captain Cook's goat had already sailed around the world before it went on its first voyage with Cook, and helped save everyone on board the ship from scurvy. As well as telling the story of this less-than- famous goat, the book looks at the great sea explorations of the eighteenth century, including Coo ...Show more
Gold Rush (Fair Dinkum Histories All the Stinky Bits) by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: FAIR DINKUM HISTORIES
Telling BITS of history as they really were! Gold fever hit Australia in the 1850s and it was the start of a wild, crazy hunt that saw people from all over the world come to try their luck. A few people might have dug up a fortune, but what most diggers dug was latrines. It turns out that the Gold Rush ...Show more
Good Dog, Hank! by Jackie French
$24.99 AUD
$29.99 (16% off)
Category: Children's Hardback
This is the story of a dog called Hank, who obeys all the rules ...by interpreting them - in his own way ...This is the story of a dog called Hank, who obeys all the rules ...by interpreting them in his own way. A very funny and affectionately warm picture book about a dog who is convinced he is doing t ...Show more