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The Turtle and the Flood by Jackie French
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
A companion title to the best-selling The Fire Wombat, this is the story of Myrtle, a small turtle who, by heading uphill, tells the other animals that a flood is coming. Myrtle the turtle knows everything about the waterhole where she lives in the creek. She can also sense the giant flood that is comi ...Show more
The Wilderness Garden by Jackie French
$24.95 AUD
Category: Gardening
There's no need to water your garden! Or weed, prune, spray or dig it! In her decades of watching the bush and the animals around her, and of experimenting with hundreds of new growing strategies, Jackie has learnt to grow things by letting the plants - and nature - do most of the work for her. And, wit ...Show more
They Came On Viking Ships by Jackie French
$15.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Reading Level: From 10 To 14
This is the story of a Scottish wolfhound called Snarf and his owner, Hekja, whose simple but happy lives change unrecognisably when their village is raided by Vikings. As a puppy, Snarf is fortuitously rescued by a young girl called Hekja when he is badly injured. Both are then captured by raiding Viki ...Show more
Third Witch by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
A searing story of passion, betrayal, battles and love, this is Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' stripped of superstition, and its power and beauty refined into fewer words where good balances the evil and there is a happy ending - for some. Following on from OPHELIA, QUEEN OF DENMARK and I AM JULIET, this is th ...Show more
This Is Home: Essential Australian Poems For Children (HB) by Jackie French (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
In This Is Home, much-loved author Jackie French has gathered a poem for every child and every mood. What do you feel like doing today? Sit beside a bush campfire with Oodgeroo Noonuccal, watch people going by with Henry Lawson, float away with Alison Lester, learn to read with Andy Griffiths or be brav ...Show more
Top Koala by Jackie French; Matt Shanks (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
This Koala just has to be on top!I am top of every tree!Top is always best to be.And this koala is determined to be at the very top of EVERYTHING. From a mast in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race to the Parliament House flagpole in Canberra, this koala travels around Australia and tops it all!The sequel t ...Show more
War for Gentlemen by Jackie French
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Sipping lime juice beside the tennis court one afternoon, Charlie finds himself passionately supporting the Rebel cause and pledging to go to fight and do his bit in this gentleman's war' on the other side of the world. The consequences for Charlie - and his family - are enormous and far-reaching. The r ...Show more
Wombat Goes to School by Jackie French
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
She sleeps. She eats. She scratches - and finds a hole. When Mothball discovers a new hole, it unexpectedly leads her to the local school. The children learn that wombats love carrots and grass, while Mothball learns that lunch boxes contain very few carrots, that sports sheds can be a good place to hav ...Show more
Wombat Goes to School by Jackie French, Bruce Whatley
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
She eats. She sleeps. She scratches. She goes to school... She sleeps. She eats. She scratches - and finds a hole. When Mothball discovers a new hole, it unexpectedly leads her to the local school. the children learn that wombats love carrots and grass, while Mothball learns that lunch boxes contain ver ...Show more
Wombat Wins by Jackie French, Bruce Whatley
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
The school sports day is on and Mothball wombat is competing! She eats. She sleeps. She scratches. But can this wombat win? From the award-winning, bestelling creators of DIARY OF A WOMBAT. This is a book about a wombat ... winning. Yes, Mothball has become an athlete, albeit a little accidentally. In ...Show more
Wombat Wins (HB) by Jackie French
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
From the award-winning, bestselling creators of DIARY OF A WOMBAT. Ages: 3+ Forget Rio and the Olympic Games in 2016; for us it will be about a wombat ...winning. Yes, Mothball has become an athlete, albeit a little accidentally. In her never-ending quest for carrots, Mothball stumbles upon children at ...Show more