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Davina Bell
A beautiful tale celebrating the invisible, protective, omnipresent love love between parents and children.
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Davina Bell, Hilary Jean Tapper (illus.)
A warm and whimsical guide to negotiating life's little and big moments,
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Davina Bell & Hilary Jean Tapper
A warm and whimsical guide to negotiating life’s little moments and big emotions with empathy, kindness and words from the heart.
Davina Bell, Allison Colpoys
From this award-winning creative duo comes a stunning celebration of the joy and comfort that love can bring - wherever we roam in the big, wild world.
Jane Godwin, Davina Bell
This delightful story from a winning teamperfectly celebrates the joy and chaos of a baby-filled day!
A breathtakingly original novel about love and destruction, from an award-winning Australian children’s author.
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From the creators of All the Ways To Be Smart comes a message of hope: hard days come and go, but love is with us always.
A tender, funny, and exquisitely illustrated picture book celebrating all the unique and wonderful qualities that make children who they are. With heartwarming rhyming text all about knowing what makes…
Davina Bell, Jenny Lovlie
When Frankie McGee insists on borrowing yet another book about tractors, his mum crumbles. She begs him to read a book about something else - cars, planes, cranes, trains -…
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Lemonade Jones likes to ask lots of questions and does not like rules - warm, funny stories for the beginning reader about a girl who likes to ask ‘why?
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From the team behind the best-selling All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors comes a cheeky story about discovering the joys of dance.
Davina Bell, Allison Colpoys (illus.)
From the award-winning creators of The Underwater Fancy-dress Parade and Under the Love Umbrella comes this joyful ode to all the unique and wonderful qualities that make children who they…
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When lifelong friends Lola, Belle, Maisie and Sophia reunite at their beloved Corner Park Clubhouse for the winter school holidays, Lola has a great idea: they’ll enter the local drama…
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Follow Alice on her adventure in the second of four stories about a gifted girl in a time of war.
It’s 1918 … and Alice has never felt lonelier. Her…
The war is over, summer has arrived and Alice is filled with hope that life with her family will finally return to normal. However, as peace is negotiated overseas, nothing…
Alice’s mother is sick, and everyone fears that she might have the dreaded Spanish Influenza. Alice begins to dance again to distract herself but soon becomes frustrated at how difficult…
With irresistible rhyming text by award-winning author Davina Bell and unforgettable illustrations by Jenny Lovlie, this new abridged board book edition of the beloved All of the Factors of Why…
Davina Bell, and Karen Blair
There are a lot of rules that don’t interest Lemonade Jones. No running in the classroom, not even in an emergency. Dangerous animals should be in cages. No biting. (Not…
The day before the Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade, Alfie got that feeling … Sometimes it’s hard to be brave. Sometimes you get that feeling. Alfie isn’t sure he can go to…
Lemonade Jones likes questions and does NOT like rules. Three funny stories suitable for newly independent readers who loved the Billie B Brown series.
An A-to-Z celebration of the chaos and tenderness of the toddler years - that bittersweet window of domestic life when each day is a magical bunfight that you wouldn't trade…
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The Corner Park Clubhouse.
For Belle, it’s an empire. For Lola, it’s a canvas. For Maisie, it’s a refuge. For Sophia, it is home.
Sophia and her lifelong best friends…
It’s 1918, and it feels to Alice as if the war has been dragging on forever. It’s four years since Alice’s father went away to be a doctor for the…
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There are a lot of rules…
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The follow-up to bestseller All the Ways to be Smart by Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys. An uplifting and healing book that every family needs in an era of overwhelming…
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Davina Bell,Allison Colpoys
There is a lot to learn about being a ballerina. It is hard work and can seem silly at times. But when you walk out on the stage, it’s like…
A multiple award winner in Australia, this picture book portrays social anxiety compassionately, as both positive and negative, as it celebrates introversion in a story about a quiet boy with…
Celebrates the myriad ways for kids to be smart–being empathic, artistic, athletic, and inquisitive.
Frankie McGee’s mother takes him to the public library, where she tries to persuade him to choose a book about cars, heliciptors, or anything else while he insists on yet…
Jane Godwin,Davina Bell
Illustrations and easy-to-read text celebrate a baby’s first birthday and all of the different babies who attend the party, whether friendly, sleepy, or wriggly. Full color.
Here is a message of hope: hard days come and go, but love is with us always. A healing and uplifting tribute to learning and growing - to making mistakes…
It’s a busy day at Hattie’s house. There’s a lot to do before Dad’s birthday party. Hattie is being very helpful, until it’s time for her afternoon nap. Hattie’s not…
