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The Tomorrow Book by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Paperbacks
A timely picture book about a young prince who is determined to rule over a country where the future is filled with environmental hope - and practical solutions. Lively, fun and positive, this book serves to give young people information about their world and shows them that a lot of environmental solut ...Show more
The Turtle and the Flood by Jackie French
$22.99 AUD
$24.99 (8% off)
Category: Children's Picture Hardbacks
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
They Came On Viking Ships by Jackie French
$15.95 AUD
$16.99 (6% off)
Category: Younger Fiction | 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
This Is Home: Essential Australian Poems For Children (HB) by Jackie French (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
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
To Love a Sunburnt Country (#4 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Teenage Fiction | Series: The Matilda Saga
In war-torn Malaya, Nancy dreams of Australia - and a young man called Michael. The year is 1942 and the world is at war. Nancy Clancy left school at fourteen to spend a year droving, just like her grandfather Clancy of the Overflow. Now sixteen, Nancys family has sent her to Malaya to bring home her si ...Show more
To Love a Sunburnt Country (#4 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The year is 1942 and the world is at war. Nancy Clancy is 16 and left school to spend a year droving, just like her grandfather Clancy of the Overflow was famed for. Now Nancy's family has sent her to Malaya to bring home her sister-in-law Moira and baby Gavin. Moira is British and married to Nancy's br ...Show more
Tom Appleby, Convict Boy by Jackie French
$14.95 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction | Reading Level: From 10 To 99
Tom Appleby, eight year old chimney sweep is convicted of stealing and sentenced to deportation to Botany Bay. This book tells of a colony that, despite its natural abundance, cannot offer what the colonists want. While the people's health is better than ever, their morale is low as they wait for news f ...Show more
Too Many Pears! by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Paperbacks
Pamela the cow loves pears, and will do just about anything to get them. But will anyone else ever get to eat a pear again? Certainly not until Pamela has had her fill . . . and chooses something else to eat!
Top Koala by Jackie French; Matt Shanks (Illustrator)
$14.99 AUD
$24.99 (40% off)
Category: Children's Picture Hardbacks
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
Vanishing at the Very Small Castle (The Butter O'Bryan Mysteries #2) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction | Series: The\Butter o'Bryan Mysteries Ser.
It's 1932, the height of the Depression, and Butter O'Bryan and his friends have another mystery to solve. The Very Small Castle is home to Butter O'Bryan, his father, three aunts, friends Gil, Olive and Tish, and their dog, Woofer.But now there's also a monster at the castle!When glamorous film actress ...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
When the War is Over by Jackie French
$15.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Paperbacks
From one of Australia's most-loved authors comes a book about homecoming, and the enduring power of love. Now the war is over And they say the world is free, Though somewhere guns are snarling, You've come back to me. War may never truly end, but there can be homecomings. From two of Australia' ...Show more