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Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: Two of the Greatest Stories Ever Told by Gillian Cross
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Gillian Cross's brilliant retellings and Neil Packer's clever illustrations bring to life Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, two of the greatest stories ever told. When first published Walker’s versions of the Iliad and the Odyssey attracted attention both for the quality of the writing and for their amazingly ...Show more
Revenge of the Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross
$14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
Hunky Parker is the new craze. His drooling, dribbling pig face is everywhere: on T-shirts and badges, and there are even horrible pig-trotter trainers and pig-swill yogurts in the shops. But it's when the Hunky TV shows air nationally that the trouble really begins. Suddenly, people are going crazy for ...Show more
The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross
$13.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Puffin Books | Reading Level: From 2 to 12
Something is horribly wrong at Dinah's new school - the children are strangely neat and well behaved. Why is this and why does Dinah find herself conforming? What is the secret of the Headmaster's control? Dinah is determined to unravel the mystery of the sinister Headmaster.
The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross
$14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
When Dinah is fostered by the Hunters she thinks her biggest problem will be fitting in with her foster-brothers, Lloyd and Harvey. However, once she starts at her new school it's clear that there's more to worry about. All the children, apart from a handful including Lloyd and Harvey, are too well-beha ...Show more
The Demon Headmaster Takes Over by Gillian Cross
$14.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
Dinah and her brothers have moved house as their dad's got a new job at the Biogenetic Research Centre. It sounds great, but all three realize something very weird's going on. People in the village talk like robots when the centre is mentioned. There's a mysterious buzzing sound near the centre, and a c ...Show more
The Demon Headmaster and the Prime Minister's Brain by Gillian Cross
$14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
Things at school have been looking up for Dinah, Harvey and Lloyd since their defeat of the villainous Demon Headmaster. The pupils are acting normally, and their new headmaster seems perfectly ordinary. Then the arrival of a new computer game, Octopus Dare, with its competition to find the Junior Compu ...Show more
The Iliad by Gillian Cross
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Gillian Cross's brilliant retelling and Neil Packer's glorious illustrations bring to life Homer's Iliad, one of the greatest stories ever told. The team behind The Odyssey (2012) now tell the story of the Trojan War. Cross's vivid adaptation begins with a beauty contest: the prize, a golden apple. In ...Show more
The Iliad / The Odyssey (Boxed HB Set) by Gillian Cross
$59.99 AUD
Category: Boxed Sets
This handsome boxed set of Homer's epics -- powerfully retold by Gillian Cross and strikingly illustrated by Neil Packer -- belongs on every reader's bookshelf. Epic and thrilling, Homer's two age-old classics have been revisited countless times. Gillian Cross and Neil Packer's exquisite versions of ...Show more
The Iliad (HB) by Homer; Gillian Cross
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Neil Packer's glorious illustrations and Gillian Cross's brilliant retelling bring to life Homer's Iliad, the greatest war story ever told. The team that produced the Odyssey in 2012 now tell the story of the ten year war that preceded Odysseus's long journey home to Ithaca. This faithful retelling begi ...Show more
The Odyssey by Gillian Cross
$24.99 AUD
Category: Mythology
This is the paperback of Walker's magnificent edition of Homer's epic story. It is illustrated with lavish full colour pictures and exquisite black and white silhouettes. Homer's great story is retold with simplicity and style by award-winning children's writer Gillian Cross, and vividly brought to lif ...Show more