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Fair Dinkum Histories #1: Shipwreck, Sailors & 60,000 Years by Jackie French; Peter Sheehan (Illustrator)
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
The Indigenous people of Australia have lived here for tens of thousands of years. They survived the ice age and ancient global warming. They saw oceans sink and oceans rise. They watched the mega-beasts disappear and dingoes arrive. Theirs is the oldest civilization in the world. Then along came the Du ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories 6 - Weevils W by FRENCH Jackie
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | 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
Fire Wombat (HB) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
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 & YA
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
Goat Who Sailed the World, The (The Animal Stars #1) by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | 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, Graves and Glory by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
For 60,000 years the world had pretty much left Australia and its Aboriginal nations alone. Then it became a home for Britain's criminals. Now a con man had found gold, and suddenly everyone was heading to Australia; adventurers, revolutionaries, and camels! Join the heroes and villains of the past as t ...Show more
Gold, Graves and Glory: 1850-1880 (Fair Dinkum Histories #4) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Magazines | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
For 60,000 years the rest of the world had pretty much left Australia and its Aboriginal nations alone. Then it became a home for Britain's criminals and poor. Now a con man had found gold and suddenly everyone was heading to Australia: adventurers, revolutionaries, camels . . . Australia would never be ...Show more
Grandma Wombat by Jackie French
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
From the award-winning, best-selling creators of DIARY OF A WOMBAT comes another Wombat picture book - this time about more senior members of the species. Ages: 3+ She eats. She sleeps. She scratches. And like all grandmas, she thinks her grandson is the best-behaved baby ever. But this baby wombat h ...Show more
Grandma Wombat (PB) by Jackie French, Bruce Whatley
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
From the award-winning, best-selling creators of DIARY OF A WOMBAT comes another Wombat picture book - this time about more senior members of the species. Ages: 3+ She eats. She sleeps. She scratches. And like all grandmas, she thinks her grandson is the best-behaved baby ever. But this baby wombat has ...Show more
Grim Crims and Convicts by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
It was an incredible idea, to found a colony of convicts, eight months' sail away from Great Britain. It was a land with no cities, no farms, no rich spices. It was just slaves in huts. No country had ever though to send a colony so far away. This book covers the Australian history, warts and all. It is ...Show more
Happy Birthday Wombat by Jackie French; Bruce Whatley (Illustrator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
Bestselling Mothball is back - with birthday cake! (Carrot, of course.) She eats, she sleeps, she scratches. But today it's Mothball's birthday and it's time to celebrate! Created by author Jackie French and illustrator Bruce Whatley, Happy Birthday Wombat is a very funny picture book about enjoying a ...Show more
Happy Birthday Wombat (HB) by Jackie French; Bruce Whatley (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Reading Level: 7 Kids Picture Books
BESTSELLING MOTHBALL IS BACK - WITH BIRTHDAY CAKE! (CARROT, OF COURSE.) She eats, she sleeps, she scratches. But today it's Mothball's birthday and it's time to celebrate! Created by author Jackie French and illustrator Bruce Whatley, Happy Birthday Wombat is a very funny picture book about enjoying a ...Show more