July 2008 Kids' Books
The Dog on the Tuckerbox
$24.99 (Hardcover book / Black Dog Books )
The Dog on the Tuckerbox is the story of Lady and her master Bill.
It is the story of Australia’s pioneers; the bullockies who worked the rough tracks, and of one dog’s unwavering loyalty to her master. From the award-wi... More »
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Puffin )
Pssst . . . want to know a secret?
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang isn't any ordinary car.
It can swim. And fly. It can even think for itself!
Chitty's owners, the Pott family, love adventures. But they've never come acros... More »
The Big Fat Cow That Goes Kapow
$15.00 (Paperback book / Pan Macmillan )
Oh no – watch out!
Don't look now!
Inside this book is an EXPLODING cow!
FIVE...
FOUR...
THREE...
TWO...
ONE...
KAPOW!
More rhyming mayhem and comic madness from the bestselling duo of the inspired JUST! series. Andy G... More »
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Black Jack Anderson
$19.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Anderson and his men came in under the stern of HMS Shannon, jammed her rudder and scrambled up her ropes.
But the captain had been looking out for them. He had orders to capture Anderson if he came within range, and to ... More »
Lucy The Good
$14.95 (Paperback book / Random House )
Lucy van Loon knows she's a good girl. So why is she always sitting on the Time Out chair? After all, she had a very good reason for tipping Jacinta's unicorn pencils all over the floor. And she only had a shriek because... More »
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You
$19.95 (Paperback book / Scribe Publications )
It’s time for eighteen-year-old James Sveck to begin his freshman year at Brown. Instead, he’s surfing the real-estate listings, searching for a sanctuary—a nice farmhouse in Kansas, perhaps. Although James lives in twen... More »
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The Rules Of Cool: Mac Slater: Coolhunter
$16.95 (Paperback book / Random House )
Imagine a WebTV show coming to your school and asking you to be a Coolhunter! Imagine being sent to far-flung corners of the globe, hunting cool. Imagine going from zero to hero in a split-second and finding that all the... More »
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The Case Of The Diamond Shadow
$14.95 (Paperback book / Abc Books )
When Daisy Miller accepts an exciting new job in London with the mysterious Mrs Peabody, her old friend George Dale is more than a little jealous. But all is not quite as it seems and Daisy soon realises that there's mor... More »
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The Pencil
$27.95 (Hardcover book / Walker Books )
Once there was a pencil, a lonely little pencil, and nothing else. Then one day that little pencil made a move, shivered slightly, quivered somewhat ... and began to draw. The pencil draws an entire world, and then a pai... More »
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How High Can A Kangaroo Jump
$14.99 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
Why does Australia have animals that are so different from
others anywhere else in the world?
Why do roos and wallabies have such big tummies? Who were the
kangaroos with fangs that lived 10 million years ago? What’s the... More »
Hatshepsut: The Lost Pharaoh of Egypt
$15.00 (Paperback book / Black Dog Books )
Hatshepsut was just a girl – but when it came to the job of Pharaoh, she was the best man for the job.
The Pharaohs who followed her tried to erase her name from history. But the mystery of the spoilt princess who beca... More »
The China Book: A People A Place A Culture
$17.00 (Paperback book / Black Dog Books )
Did you know that Chinese people have a holiday especially for ghosts? Or that Taoists believe that ordinary people are capable of becoming superheroes? A visually stunning adventure through this fascinating ancient cult... More »
Through Time: Beijing
$30.00 (Hardcover book / Kingfisher )
Through Time: Beijing traces the rise and fall of great dynasties and the everyday lives of the citizens who prospered or suffered under their rule. Beginning in prehistoric times, an agricultural community slowly evolve... More »
Little Beauty
$27.95 (Hardcover book / Walker Books )
A gorilla is taught a skill: sign language. One day he signs that he is sad and needs a friend. His keepers bring him a tiny cat called Beauty and the two of them become inseparable. But when the gorilla gets angry and c... More »
The Savage
$24.95 (Hardcover book / Walker Books )
Imagine you wrote a story and that story came true. This is exactly what happens to Blue Baker when he writes about a savage living alone in the woods near his home. After his dad's death, Blue finds comfort in dreaming ... More »
The Blue Stone
$28.99 (Hardcover book / Little Brown )
A large, beautiful blue stone is discovered in a forest. It is cut in half, and one half stays in the forest while the other starts on a long and mystical journey through many places, many owners, and many transformation... More »
The Truth About Forever
$17.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
On the outside, Macy queen is cool and calm. On the inside, she's breaking.
Silently struggling with her dad's death, and spending the summer apart from her oh-so-perfect boyfriend, Macy is smiling her way through - she'... More »