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The Book of Horses and Unicorns by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 2-3, Age 7-8
From Australia's Children's Laureate comes a delightful collection of stories about horses and unicorns. Take a journey through the ages and around the world - from ancient Greece, to the time of Genghis Khan to Arthurian England and then to outback Australia in the 1950s. Each story weaves the fantasti ...Show more
The Ghost by the Billabong (#5 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Matilda Saga
Hippies wear beads, demonstrators march against the Vietnam War, and the world waits to see the first human steps on the moon's surface. But at Gibbers Creek, Jed Kelly sees ghosts, from the past and future, at the Drinkwater billabong where long ago the swaggie leaped to his defiant death. But is seven ...Show more
The Girl from Snowy River (#2 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Matilda Saga
In the tradition of THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER comes a gripping and courageous sequel to A WALTZ FOR MATILDA Ages:10-14 The year is 1919. Thirty years have passed since the man from Snowy River made his famous ride. But World War I still casts its shadow across a valley in the heart of Australia, particul ...Show more
The Great Gallipoli Escape by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: First Chapter Books
Renowned for her historical fiction titles, Jackie French now tells the story of the brilliant and famous evacuation of Gallipoli. Sixteen-year-old Nipper and his Gallipoli mates Lanky, Spud, Bluey and Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipped. By November 1915 they know that that there is mo ...Show more
The Last Dingo Summer (#8 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: The\Matilda Saga Ser.
'A MUST FOR YOUR SUMMER READING LIST' - Better Reading A body has been found in the burned-out wreckage of the church at Gibber's Creek - with older skeletons lying beneath it. The corpse is identified as that of Ignatius Mervyn, the man who attempted to kill Jed Kelly and her unborn child. Newcomer Fis ...Show more
The Last Dingo Summer (#8 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Matilda Saga
A killer lurks behind the kindness of the Gibber's Creek community. Under the burnt timber of the church, the police have found the body of Merv Ignatious, the man who so viciously attacked Jed Kelly when she was fifteen, and tried to kill her and her unborn child in last year's bushfire. And also in th ...Show more
The Road to Gundagai (#3 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Matilda Saga
The third title in the Matilda saga, which began with A WALTZ FOR MATILDA and followed with THE GIRL FROM SNOWY RIVER A true cross-over, that becomes a terrific holiday read for our literary adult market A page-turning, heart-warming family saga set in the Snowy Mountains during the Depression in the 19 ...Show more
Third Witch by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
A searing story of passion, betrayal, battles and love, this is Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' stripped of superstition, and its power and beauty refined into fewer words where good balances the evil and there is a happy ending - for some. Following on from OPHELIA, QUEEN OF DENMARK and I AM JULIET, this is th ...Show more
This Is Home: Essential Australian Poems For Children (HB) by Jackie French (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Children's Poetry
In This Is Home, much-loved author Jackie French has gathered a poem for every child and every mood. What do you feel like doing today? Sit beside a bush campfire with Oodgeroo Noonuccal, watch people going by with Henry Lawson, float away with Alison Lester, learn to read with Andy Griffiths or be brav ...Show more
To Love a Sunburnt Country (#4 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Matilda Saga
In war-torn Malaya, Nancy dreams of Australia - and a young man called Michael. The year is 1942 and the world is at war. Nancy Clancy left school at fourteen to spend a year droving, just like her grandfather Clancy of the Overflow. Now sixteen, Nancys family has sent her to Malaya to bring home her si ...Show more
Tom Appleby, Convict Boy by Jackie French
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Reading Level: From 10 To 99
Tom Appleby, eight year old chimney sweep is convicted of stealing and sentenced to deportation to Botany Bay. This book tells of a colony that, despite its natural abundance, cannot offer what the colonists want. While the people's health is better than ever, their morale is low as they wait for news f ...Show more
Too Many Pears! by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Pamela the cow loves pears, and will do just about anything to get them. But will anyone else ever get to eat a pear again? Certainly not until Pamela has had her fill . . . and chooses something else to eat!