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Pennies for Hitler

Pennies for Hitler
Jackie French

$15.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

It's 1939, and for Georg, son of an English academic living in Germany, life is full of cream cakes and loving parents. It is also a time when his teacher measures the pupils' heads to see which of them have the most 'Aryan' -... Buy or find out more


Christmas Wombat

Christmas Wombat
Jackie French, Bruce Whatley

$25.00 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

It's Christmas! And it's Christmas for Mothball the Wombat, too.She eats, she sleeps, she scratches,but on Christmas Eve ... Created by writer Jackie French and illustrator Bruce Whatley, Christmas Wombat is another irresistible... Buy or find out more



Nanberry: Black Brother White

Nanberry: Black Brother White
Jackie French

$16.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

The year is 1788, and in the newly created colony at Sydney Cove is struggling for survival. Seen through the eyes of the colony's only surgeon and Nanberry, the Aboriginal boy adopted by Surgeon White who finds himself... Buy or find out more


Flood
Jackie French, Bruce Whatley

$16.99 – Paperback / Scholastic Australia

This is a story that shows how strong and devastating flood water can be to homes and livelihoods. It is inspired by the 2011 Queensland floods but it could be about any of the disasters that strike our land, and the events... Buy or find out more



Jackie French's Chook Book

Jackie French's Chook Book
Jackie French

$21.95 – Paperback / Aird Books Pty.Ltd

This fully revised and much-expanded second edition now features a greater focus and much more information on chook management without neglecting the popular recipes. The sections on cooking chickens and eggs have also both been... Buy or find out more


Rocket Your Child into Reading: New Ideas, Great Tips & Fun Games for Reading Success

Rocket Your Child into Reading: New Ideas, Great Tips & Fun Games for Reading Success
Jackie French

$19.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Aims to help parents and teachers identify children's reading difficulties and then suggest ways to deal with them. This book contains practical solutions, showing there are many ways to improve your child's reading and stimulate... Buy or find out more



Baby Wombats Week

Baby Wombats Week
Jackie French, Bruce Whatley

$24.99 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Cuter, stroppier and even more determined than her mother - meet Mothball's baby. Like any growing family, this baby wombat and her mum are finding it hard to fit into their home. When setting out to dig a new, bigger hole with... Buy or find out more


Tom Appleby Convict Boy

Tom Appleby Convict Boy
Jackie French

$14.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

The author weaves Tom's story in with the story of the development of Australia. She tells of a colony that, despite its natural abundance, cannot offer what the colonists want - familiarity. While the people's health is better... Buy or find out more



Night They Stormed Eureka

Night They Stormed Eureka
Jackie French

$15.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

It's 1854, and the Ballarat goldfields are a place of dreams and rebellion as Sam, a homeless teenager, is called back to the past to join the Puddlehams, who run 'the best little cook shop on the diggings'. The Puddlehams dream... Buy or find out more


Pete The Sheep

Pete The Sheep
Jackie French, Bruce Whatley

$14.99 – Board book / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

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... Buy or find out more



Pete the Sheep

Pete the Sheep
Jackie French

$14.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Sean is a shearer and, instead of a sheepdog to help him, he's got a sheep - Pete. After being rejected by the other shearers and their dogs, Sean and Pete have set up a sheep salon in town. Sheep from everywhere arrive to have... Buy or find out more


Diary of a Wombat

Diary of a Wombat
Jackie French

$24.95 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

This wombat leads a very busy and demanding life. She wrestles unknown creatures, runs her own digging business and most difficult of all - trains her humans. Find out how she fits this into her busy schedule around sleeping,... Buy or find out more



Diary of a Wombat

Diary of a Wombat
Jackie French, Bruce Whatley

$14.99 – Board book / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

An all-time favourite now in an edition so durable that even Mothball the wombat would have trouble destroying it! Age 2+. Buy or find out more


Hitlers Daughter

Hitlers Daughter
Jackie French

$15.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Three children in country Australia meet at the bus stop every morning and tell each other stories. This one is about Hitler's Daughter and the life that she leads in Nazi Germany. The story goes back and forth from the historical... Buy or find out more



Daughter of the Regiment

Daughter of the Regiment
Jackie French

$14.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Harry doesn't really want to leave the farm to go to High School. And if he does go, will he want to come back to the farm? And then he finds a hole in time in the corner of the chook shed and discovers another world - his world,... Buy or find out more


Macbeth and Son

Macbeth and Son
Jackie French

$15.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Luke lives in modern-day Australia with his mother and stepfather, Sam. Lulach lives in 9th century Scotland with his mother and stepfather, Macbeth. Luke dreams about Lulach and Macbeth and knows him to be a king who restored... Buy or find out more



Stamp, Stomp, Whomp: And Other Interesting Ways to Get Rid of Pests

Stamp, Stomp, Whomp: And Other Interesting Ways to Get Rid of Pests
Jackie French

$14.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Stamp Stomp Womp is a companion book to How to Guzzle Your Garden. Popular author and Burke's Backyard presenter, Jackie French helps children discover ways of getting rid of garden pests. Children, parents, and teachers will all... Buy or find out more


How the Finnegans Saved the Ship

How the Finnegans Saved the Ship
Jackie French

$14.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Set in 1913, the year after the Titanic sank, this is the story of the voyage to Australia made by the Finnegan children and their mother, who travelled on a boat as far removed from the Titanic as possible, but also managed to... Buy or find out more



A Phaery Named Phredde: And Other Stories to Eat with a Banana

A Phaery Named Phredde: And Other Stories to Eat with a Banana
Jackie French

$12.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Meet Phredde, the coolest phaery in the universe. Phredde is tiny, ferocious and Pru's best friend. And with Pru's brother turning into a werewolf, Pru needs all the magic help she can get! This book is for those aged 7 and... Buy or find out more


Phredde and the Purple Pyramid

Phredde and the Purple Pyramid
Jackie French

$12.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Phredde, Pru and Bruce are back and this time they are in ancient Egypt. It seems Fluffy, Queen of the Nile, has sent a time tunnel to seek out a brave and brilliant girl to save her - this has to be Pru, it can't be Phredde,... Buy or find out more



Phredde and the Zombie Librarian: And Other Stories to Eat with a Blood Plum

Phredde and the Zombie Librarian: And Other Stories to Eat with a Blood Plum
Jackie French

$12.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

There's grey-flesh zombie librarian tending her blood-starved books in the school library...and a 5,000-year-old Egyptian mummy roaming the corridors. Can Phredde and Pru escape? Ages 7+. Buy or find out more


Valley of Gold

Valley of Gold
Jackie French

$14.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

One valley's stories of gold through the ages, from the beginning of the earth four billion years ago, through the valley's creation and the history of its alluring deposits. Buy or find out more



A Rose for the Anzac Boys
Jackie French

$15.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

It is 1915. War is being fought on an horrific scale in the trenches in France, but it might as well be a world away from sixteen-year-old Midge MacPherson, who has been sent to England to learn to be a young lady. Ages 14+. Buy or find out more


Book of Unicorns

Book of Unicorns
Jackie French

$14.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

A collection of fantasy stories from the author of Somewhere Around the Corner . Buy or find out more



Pharaoh

Pharaoh
Jackie French

$15.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Prince Narmer, first in line of succession, meets an oracle who changes his life. Ousted from the line by a disfiguring struggle with a crocodile, Narmer travels, learning much about faraway lands and his place in the world. Most... Buy or find out more


Dancing with Ben Hall

Dancing with Ben Hall
Jackie French

$14.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

A collection of short stories, both historical and contemporary, based on real people and real events. Buy or find out more



Jackie French's Guide to Companion Planting in Australia and New Zealand

Jackie French's Guide to Companion Planting in Australia and New Zealand
Jackie French, Bronwyn Halls

$13.95 – Paperback / Aird Books Pty.Ltd

This book has separate chapters on the myths & reality of companion planting how to develop your own companion planting and on vegetables, fruit and flowers. Buy or find out more


Natural Control of Garden Pests

Natural Control of Garden Pests
Jackie French

$21.95 – Paperback / Aird Books Pty.Ltd

Covers techiques for natural pest control of flower and vegetable gardens, orchards and small farms. Includes sections on companion planting, birds and other pest predators, descriptions of Australia's common pests, and the... Buy or find out more



Jackie French's Top 10 Vegetables

Jackie French's Top 10 Vegetables
Jackie French

$16.95 – Paperback / Aird Books Pty.Ltd

There are few strangers in Jackie French's selection, but her thoughts on growing and preparing these vegetables are both delectable and entertaining. Buy or find out more


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