Summer Reading: Kids
Amelia Dee And The Peacock Lamp
$15.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
Amelia Dee sometimes imagined she was the only person in the whole world who knew the secrets of the Peacock Lamp.' Amelia Dee lives in a house on Marburg Street, with a rare Peacock Lamp outside her bedroom door. Her fa... More »
Araminta Spook: Vampire Brat
$14.95 (Hardcover book / Bloomsbury )
Araminta thinks something horrible might be hiding in the deep, hidden passages of Spook House. She suspects it might be a werewolf. To make matters worse, Uncle Drac's creepy nephew has arrived and is now Wanda's New Be... More »
The Art Book For Children Two
$29.95 (Hardcover book / )
If you love art, don’t always understand it, but hate gallery bores, this is the perfect book. The first volume was such a huge hit that readers wanted a second. So here’s another fascinating walk through contemporary an... More »
Do Not Open: Stuff They Dont Want You To Know
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Dorling Kindersley )
Here’s an author who knows how to get kids to read: use reverse psychology in the title and then make the first test whether they can actually get the book out of its slip case! Inside there’s a multicoloured stash of se... More »
The Dragon Companion
$27.00 (Hardcover book / Black Dog Books )
No more Harry Potter(or Tolkien)? Illustrated in brilliant colour like a medieval illuminated manuscript, here’s everything you’ve ever wanted to know about dragons in ancient myth and more recent fiction – and some that... More »
Elephants: A Book For Children
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson )
Although there’s minimal text here, the subtitle is misleading. The photographs alone will make readers of any age want to protect these wonderful, long-suffering animals. You’ll love learning that just as we are right- ... More »
Girl Stuff: Your Full On Guide To The Teen Years
$39.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )
With over 600 pages and heaps of cartoons, Girl Stuff has everything girls need to know about: friends, body changes, shopping, clothes, make-up, pimples (arrghh), sizes, hair, earning money, guys, embarrassment, what to... More »
The Enemy: A Fable of Peace and Understanding
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Wilkins Farago )
A moving and poetic meditation on the big questions in life in the tradition of The Little Prince, this contemporary picture book speaks to both adults and older children. Set in a war that could be any war, a soldier te... More »
Floods: Family Files And Floods: #1 Bind Up Special
$29.95 (Pack / )
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The Floods 5: Prime Suspect
$14.95 (Paperback book / Random House )
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The Ghost's Child
$24.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
A strange boy suddenly appears in a lonely old woman’s lounge room. As she serves him tea, Hartnett observes that the milk turns the tea ‘a pressed-rose brown’ and immediately we are in a world where language makes exhil... More »
Go Girl! Angels Pack With Charm Bracelet
$39.95 (Pack / Hardie Grant )
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My Favourite Go Girl! Gift Box
$29.95 (Boxed set / Hardie Grant )
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Iggy Peck: Architect
$24.95 (Hardcover book / )
'Young Iggy Peck is an architect and has been since he was two, when he built a great tower – in only an hour – with nothing but diapers and glue.’ This utterly charming picture book is about young Iggy, who builds a mud... More »
Just Shocking
$14.95 (Paperback book / Pan Macmillan )
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Do you wish you could drive around in a monster truck crushing everybody and everything that gets in your way?
Do you love watching videos of people ha... More »
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What Bumosaur Is That?
$14.95 (Paperback book / Pan Macmillan )
? Why was the Tyrannosore-arse Rex so angry?
Where did Bogasauruses live?
How many cheeks did a Tricerabutt have?
Was the Bumheaded idiotasaurus the most stupid bumosaur?
When did the bumosaurs become exstinkt?
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The Key To Rondo
$30.00 (Hardcover book / Omnibus Books )
There are three rules to the old painted, music box: Wind the box three times only. Never shut the box when the music is playing. Never move the box before the music stops. Leo wouldn't dream of breaking these rules, but... More »
Deltora Quest: The Ultimate Collection
$79.99 (Slipcase / Scholastic )
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Little Fur: The Legend Of Little Fur, Book One
$24.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
Little Fur is an elf troll who dwells in a secret wilderness within an ancient human city, where she lives peacefully as a healer of small creatures. One day, danger threatens the wilderness and all who dwell there, and ... More »
A Fox Called Sorrow: The Legend Of Little Fur, Book Two
$24.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
A half-starved fox was limping towards the outskirts of the sprawling grey city over which the storm spread its black and ragged wings. It stopped to sniff at the wind and read the warnings and signals. But its anguish w... More »
A Mystery Of Wolves: The Legend Of Little Fur, Book Three
$24.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
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The Moon Rock
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Simply Read Books )
When Elliot steals his grandfather’s Moon Rock, he finds himself at the centre of a civil war on the Far Side of the Moon – and he’s the only one who can help the Librarian to defeat the marauding Defiers. The illustrati... More »
Nicholas And The Gang
$29.95 (Hardcover book / )
Nicholas and the Gang contains 16 new stories about Nicholas, the French schoolboy, and his friends, many of whom are familiar from the other books in the series: there's Alec, who's always eating; Cuthbert, who's always... More »
Olivia Helps With Christmas
$26.95 (Hardcover book / Atheneum )
With all that snowy white space on the page, everyone’s favourite pig had to do Christmas, and here she is – as helpful as ever – feeding blueberry pie to the baby, lopping the top off the Christmas tree so she has a per... More »
Pippi Longstocking: Illustrated By Lauren Child
$34.95 (Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr )
This children’s classic is presented here in a gorgeous full-colour gift edition illustrated by Lauren Child (of Clarice Bean fame). Pippi Longstocking is nine years old. She has just moved into Villa Villekulla where sh... More »
The Secret Garden
$34.95 (Hardcover book / Walker Books )
The smaller our suburban gardens are in the future, the more attractive this classic tale of the rebirth of an orphaned girl and her secret garden is likely to become. In a new gift edition, the strange ghostliness of In... More »
Shaggy Gully Times
$25.00 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
Who knew that the famous wombat diarist, Josephine the ballet-dancing kangaroo and hairdresser Pete the Sheep all lived in the same country town? Here’s the town’s newspaper, demonstrating that if Australia’s short on wa... More »
One City, Two Brothers
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Barefoot Books )
The love of two brothers is so great that each keeps trying to surprise the other with a gift, only to find that his generosity has already been reciprocated. Just as Daniel Barenboim uses music to bring together the war... More »
Puff The Magic Dragon: Book and CD
$27.00 (Hardcover book / Koala Books )
This beautiful gift package includes gently fey illustrations and a CD so that today’s kids can enjoy their grandparents’ favourite classic song, free of the 1960s speculation that it might all have been about a voyage o... More »
Snakehead: Alex Rider Book Seven
$16.95 (Paperback book / Walker Books )
Undercover in a poisonous world, teen spy Alex Rider is back for his seventh adrenalin-rush adventure!
Alex Rider is on the wrong side of the world -- and the law. Alone in Sydney, he is recruited by the Australian gover... More »
What I Was
$17.95 (Paperback book / Puffin )
The 16-year-old narrator of this dreamy and beguiling novel has been sent to a remote boarding school where they practise ‘torture by nutrition’. On a cross-country run one day he meets a young hermit called Finn. Finn’s... More »
Zac Power: Zac Attack Box Set, The First Missions
$29.95 (Boxed set / Hardie Grant )
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Zac Power: Zac Attack Box Set, The Second Missions
$29.95 (Boxed set / Hardie Grant )
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