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My First Book about Engineering - An Awesome Introduction to Robotics and Other Fields of Engineering by Patricia J. Wynne; Donald M. Silver
$14.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Dover Children's Science Bks.
For thousands of years, engineers have solved problems by designing and building new things. This informative, fun-to-color book introduces kids ages 8-12 to the many different worlds of engineering. Realistic illustrations and easy-to-understand captions explain how civil engineers build a bridge, how ...Show more
Myths in 30 Seconds: 30 Marvellous and Magical World Myths Retold in Half a Minute by Anita Ganeri
$19.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Children's 30 Second
30 marvellous and magical world myths retold in half a minute. Perfect for enquiring minds just starting out with the history of mythology, this lively look at 30 marvellous myths from around the world is a great introduction to the subject. 30 key stories are retold, each explained in neat 30-second so ...Show more
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot; Rebecca Ashdown (Illustrator)
$12.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Children's Classics Ser.
Eliot's famous collection of nonsense verse about cats-the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats.
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Australian Children's Classics) by Joan Lindsay; Allison Colpoys (Illustrator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
SOON TO BE A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES STARRING NATALIE DORMER (GAME OF THRONES). 'Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock - a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with cicadas shrilling...' St Valentine's Day, in the midst of the hot summer of 1900, a party of sc ...Show more
Pinocchio (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Carlo Collodi
$6.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: From 2 To 12
Carved by Old Gepetto, Pinocchio has an enormous nose which grows even longer whenever he tells a lie. And Pinocchio is such a scamp that he gets into all sorts of mischief. He runs away and joins a circus but eventually the conscience of a talking cricket and Pinocchio's guardian fairy restore him to g ...Show more
Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
'Now then,' thought Abigail, 'something very weird has happened to me. I'm in the last century. I don't know why, and that doesn't matter. I've got to get back.' Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving that it cannot be left in the past. Rediscover the magic of our countr ...Show more
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
Short excerpt: Without doubt she was the worst of the seven probably because she was the cleverest. Her brilliant inventive powers plunged them all into ceaseless scrapes.
Space in 30 Seconds: 30 Super-Stellar Subjects For Cosmic Kids Explained in Half a Minute by Clive Gifford
$19.99 AUD
Category: Space | Series: Children's 30 Second | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 2-3, Age 7-8
Perfect for inquisitive cosmic kids aged 8-12, this succinct, entertaining look at what really happens in space takes a rapid-fire approach, offering 30 key topics, each one explained in neat 30-second sound bites and supported by 3-second flash summaries and cool, cartoon-style artwork. 3-minute active ...Show more
Tales from King Arthur (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by C. Lang
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
In this selection of tales by the master folklorist Andrew Lang, the reader is taken into the romantic world of the gallant Knights of the Round Table and their courageous and chivalrous deeds, fair maidens, castles steeped in history, the quest for the Holy Grail, and the tragic love of King Arthur and ...Show more
Tales from the Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang (Editor)
$6.95 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
To save herself from certain death, the beautiful Scheherazade must beguile a Persian sultan with her enchanting stories. In two of her most well-known tales, Aladdin and Ali Baba's cleverness and quick-thinking save the dayand a great treasure. Andrew Lang’s masterful version of these ancient Middle E ...Show more
Tales of Troy and Greece (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Andrew Lang
$9.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Andrew Lang draws on his classical learning to recount the Homeric legend of the wars between the Greeks and the Trojans. Paris, Helen of Troy, Achilles, Hector, Ulysses, the Amazons and the Wooden Horse all figure in this magical introduction to one of the greatest legends ever told. Also included in t ...Show more
Taronga (Australian Children's Classics) by Victor Kelleher
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
"The great dome of the sky, black, star-sprinkled, arched above him, appearing at that moment so limitless, so vast and free, that the fences and cages of Taronga were dwarfed, reduced to the point where they barely seemed to exist." Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving ...Show more