Category: Children's Reference
All aboard Guinness World Records 2021 for a life-changing journey of discovery! This year, we're devoting a chapter to the history of exploration, starting with the story of the very first circumnavigation, along with our "History of Adventure" timeline, featuring a host of remarkable achievements. The ...Show more
Category: Children's Reference
From the otherworldly landscapes of the Atacama Desert to the thundering Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, journey to jaw-dropping habitats around the world and learn about the people and creatures that have adapted to living in such extreme environments. With mind-blowing facts to be amazed by, incredible ph ...Show more
Category: Children's Reference
This enchantingly illustrated natural history of fairies, compiled in the 1920s by the botanist Professor Elsie Arbour for her niece, is now unveiled for readers of today. Featuring a gold foil-embossed cloth cover, a ribbon marker, and sprayed gold edges, this gorgeous volume is filled with colorful s ...Show more
Category: Children's Reference
A stirring story of the goldfields and the Eureka Rebellion, by award-winning author/illustrator Mark Wilson Molly and her father have emigrated to Australia to try their luck as gold prospectors in Ballarat, Victoria. Life on the diggings is hard and Molly misses her mother, who died before th ...Show more
Category: Children's Reference
There's a Zoo in your Poo!It needs a ZookeeperAnd that Keeper is YOU!Did you know that trillions of tiny bugs live in and on all of us? And there's a Zoo of bugs in our poo. But which are the good bugs and which are the bad? What should we eat to keep our good bugs happy and our body strong?Get to the g ...Show more
Category: Children's Reference
Spend a day with Australia's most vibrant and unique feathered friends. Full of splashing shorebirds, clattering cockatoos, parading penguins and greedy galahs, Busy Beaks is the perfect introduction to birds of all shapes and sizes.
Category: Children's Reference
A highly readable introduction to the causes of extinction, the different types of extinction, and how relevant it is to the world today More than 999 of every 1,000 species that have ever lived on the planet have become extinct. As part of evolution, extinction of the old allows emergence of the new. I ...Show more
Category: Children's Reference | Series: The Questioneers
Iggy Peck is totally blown away when Ada Twist's Aunt Bernice inherits an old house. Everyone says the house is haunted, and it seems that a number of priceless antiques which were supposed to help Aunt Bernice pay for the house's upkeep have gone mi
Category: Children's Reference
With a contemporary design, fun information and engaging images, the books in the A-Z series are the perfect first guides to popular non-fiction topics.
Category: Children's Reference
Difference is everywhere, just look and see. This whole-wide-big-world is wondrous-unique. A beautiful children's picture book about diversity and our wonderful world from award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke and illustrator Isobel Knowles.
Category: Children's Reference
Think you can't do anything about the world's problems? Have HOPE! Having hope means that we can make a change. And the kids of Australia have heaps of HOPE! Open your eyes, take a look around and Help Our Planet Every day. From the city to the country to the coast, we all live in different ways but we ...Show more
Category: Children's Reference | Series: Horrible Science Ser.
Horrible Science: Slimy Timeline Sticker Book is bursting with mind-blowing facts about science through the ages. Including a frightful fold-out timeline which stretches for over three metres, readers will travel all the way through time from the beastly Big Bang to the deadly digital age. With over 200 ...Show more
