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A Nation of Swaggies and Diggers by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
A Nation of Swaggies and Diggers: 1880-1920 (Fair Dinkum Histories #5) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
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
A Rose for the Anzac Boys by Jackie French
$15.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Reading Level: 12+
The 'War to end all Wars', as seen through the eyes of three young women. the 'War to end all Wars', as seen through the eyes of three young women It is 1915. War is being fought on a horrific scale in the trenches of France, but it might as well be a world away from sixteen-year-old New Zealander Midge ...Show more
A Waltz for Matilda (#1 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: The Matilda Saga | Reading Level: 11-14
The story behind Banjo Paterson's iconic Australian song.Ages 10-14 'Once a jolly swagman camped by a BillabongUnder the shade of a Coolibah treeAnd he sang as he watched and waited till his Billy boiledYou'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me...'In 1894, twelve-year-old Matilda flees the city slums to fi ...Show more
A Year in the Valley: Seasons of Content by Jackie French
$27.99 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking
An updated version of Jackie French's journal of a year in the life of the Araluen Valley in the beautiful Southern Tablelands of NSW. It's a combination of many stories - foxes in the autumn and the first of the asparagus, dashes to the school bus in the mornings and sleepy lizard nibbling Christmas pu ...Show more
Baby Wombat's Week by Jackie French; Bruce Whatley (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Reading Level: very good
He sleeps. He eats. He gets bored. He creates havoc wherever he goes He's Mothball's baby - and he's even cuter, naughtier and more determined than his mum. Created by writer Jackie French and illustrator Bruce Whatley, the award-winning duo of the international bestseller Diary of a Wombat.
Backyard Self-Sufficiency by Jackie French
$21.95 AUD
Category: Gardening
Outlines the basic areas of self-sufficiency. Growing your own fruit and vegetables, tea, herbs etc.
Birrung the Secret Friend (The Secret History Series, #1) by Jackie French
$12.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Secret Histories
From bestselling and award-winning author Jackie French comes a new series for younger readers called The Secret Histories. This first book in the series tells the story of a young indigenous girl, Birrung, who befriends orphaned Barney and his friend Elsie. Birrung is living with Mr Johnson, chaplain t ...Show more
Booms, Busts and Bushfires (#8 Fair Dinkum Histories) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
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 land - and the way Australia's Indigenous people had been mistreated. Our resources had made us ...Show more
Christmas Wombat by Jackie French, Bruce Whatley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Reading Level: 3-8
"Slept. Scratched. Slept." Indeed, it seems like Christmas will be just another day for the wombat . . . until she smells carrots In this charming picture book, the star of Diary of a Wombat goes head to head with Santa's reindeer in competition for carrots--and wins. Then, as an accidental stowaway on ...Show more
Christmas Wombat by Jackie French; Bruce Whatley
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
"Slept. Scratched. Slept." Indeed, it seems like Christmas will be just another day for the wombat . . . until she smells carrots In this charming picture book, the star of Diary of a Wombat goes head to head with Santa's reindeer in competition for carrots--and wins. Then, as an accidental stowaway on ...Show more
Dance of the Deadly Dinosaurs by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: School for Heroes
Boojum Bark is a werewolf and a student at the School for Heroes. When Boo's mother is kidnapped by the Greedle, Boo needs the help of his friends to find her. But when Boo leads them into the Ghastly Otherwhen - home of the Greedle and his bogey henchmen - to rescue his mum, he gets a shock.