Award-wining young adult author Ursula Dubosarsky teams up with cult illustrator Tohby Riddle to create this entertaining journey through the English language. Learn more about where the alphabet came from, find out what ATM stands for, make your own palindromes (it's easy!) and impress your pigs by speaking Pig Latin. There are cartoons, riddles and a special code to solve along the way.
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Every Picture Tells A Story
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
Every Picture Tells a Story provides a history of Indigenous and Australian art within a social and historical context. Though it may be directed at children and young scholars, Every Picture Tells a Story is entertainin... Buy or find out more →
Tuart Dwellers
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Bentley
From the break of dawn to nightfall, the tuart is not as it appears. Leaves and bark, trunk and branches - all are places of pretence, traps and trickery. Find out what surprise a "moon crater" might hide and why a bulls... Buy or find out more →
Chicken: The Story Of Chicken In Australia
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Cloverdale
The Story of Chicken is the latest edition to The Workboot Series. The Story of Chicken takes children onto Australian meat chicken farms where they will discover how meat chickens are raised, chicken meat is processed a... Buy or find out more →
The Word Spy
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
Award-wining young adult author Ursula Dubosarsky teams up with cult illustrator Tohby Riddle to create this entertaining journey through the English language. Learn more about where the alphabet came from, find out what... Buy or find out more →
Simpson And His Donkey
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Walker Books
A poignant account of the story of John Simpson Kirkpatrick and how he and his donkey, Duffy, rescued over 300 men during the campaign at Gallipoli. Backed by detailed research, the text includes a brief biography of the... Buy or find out more →
Alive In The Death Zone: Mount Everest Survival
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Random House
CBCA Eve Pownall Book of the Year 2009
Lincoln Hall’s story of climbing the world’s highest mountain, being left for dead near the summit and his subsequent return to life and safety, is an incredible and exciting advent... Buy or find out more →