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Pete the Sheep (Board) by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
Sean is a shearer, and instead of a sheepdog to help him, he's got a sheep sheep - Pete. After being rejected by the other shearers and their dogs, Sean and Pete set up a sheep salon in town. Sheep from everywhere arrive to have their wool shorn in the latest style and even the shearers' dogs end up arr ...Show more
Pharaoh by Jackie French
$15.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
The people call Prince Narmer the Golden One' - a boy with the brightest future ahead of him. Handsome and talented, he is destined to be King of Thinis, the greatest town in Egypt and, for Narmer, the centre of the world.Then his whole life changes overnight. A devastating accident forces him to give u ...Show more
Queen Victoria's Underpants (H/B) by Jackie French
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Reading Level: 5-9
Meet Lizzy, whose family are in the clothing industry. Very few people probably know that Queen Victoria made the wearing of underpants popular. At the beginning of her reign very few women wore them. But Queen Victoria made tartans, perambulators and chloroform fashionable. By the time she died just ab ...Show more
Refuge by Jackie French
$15.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
Refuge centres around a 14-year-old Afghan boy who spent much of his life in Pakistani refugee camps before making the voyage from Indonesia to Australia. As the boat crashes against the rocks of Christmas Island he loses consciousness and awakes to find himself in the life he has always dreamed of in A ...Show more
Rockin', Rollin', Hair and Hippies 1945-1972: Fair Dinkum Histories Bk07 by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories | Reading Level: 8-11
World War II was over, and it was a good time to be Australian. Rock 'n' roll, television and the Olympics had come Down Under. But underneath it all was the menace of the Cold War, and then came the horrors of Korea and Vietnam. Why couldn't we all just get along? Covers a pivotal time in Australia's h ...Show more
Rotters and Squatters by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
Charts the transition from penal settlement to sustainable 'free' colonies. It begins with the arrival of Governor Brisbane and the implementation of the Bigge Report, and ends in the year before the beginning of the gold rush. Ages 8+.
Secret Sparrow by Jackie French
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
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
Shipwreck, Sailors and 60,000 Years: Pre-1788 (Fair Dinkum Histories #1) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
In 1493 the Pope gave Portugal the half of the world that included eastern Australia. By 1770 the Dutch had claimed the western, northern and southern coastlines of the continent-and Cook claimed the east coast for the British in 1770. But unlike the Europeans who claimed New Holland as their own, many ...Show more
Shipwrecks, Sailors and 60,000 Years by Jackie French
$14.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
Jackie French touches on just about everything human that happened on the Australian continent prior to British settlement. Ages 8+.
Soil Food by Jackie French
$19.95 AUD
Category: Gardening
In this ground-breaking book, popular gardening author Jackie French provides hundreds of suggestions and strategies for maintaining, improving and restoring health to soil.
The Camel Who Crossed Australia (The Animal Stars #3) by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Animal Stars Ser. | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 2-3, Age 7-8
Transported from his beloved Afghan plains and mountains to Australia, Rajah the camel is forced to join the baggage train for famous 19th century explorers Burke and Wills as they embark on an expedition to cross the continent from south to north for the first time.
The Donkey Who Carried the Wounded (The Animal Stars #4) by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: The Animal Stars | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Jack Simpson's training as a stretcher-bearer hasn't prepared him for the horror of the Anzac landing on Gallipoli Peninsula. But when he finds a donkey who has survived being thrown overboard from a ship, the two form a partnership that will become famous. And when the battle is over there is still wor ...Show more