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Dingo: The Dog Who Conquered a Continent (The Animal Stars #6) by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (5 to 8 years) | Series: Animal Stars
Jackie French's critically acclaimed and best-selling ANIMAL STARS series looks at history through the eyes of an animal. Ages: 9-13 All of Australia's dingoes may be descended from one south-east Asian 'rubbish dog' who arrived here over 5,000 years ago. This is a story about the first dingo. It is als ...Show more
Dinosaurs Love Cheese (Board) by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Board
Giraffes can't resist the trees, I like milk and sandwiches ... But who stole the cheese? Ages: 3+
Dippy and the Dinosaurs (Dippy the Diprotodon, #2) by Jackie French, Bruce Whatley
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books | Series: Dippy the Diprotodon Ser.
An ‘Ice Age’ meets Diary of a Wombat story Dippy the diprotodon is the BIGGEST and friendliest wombat who lived 100,000 years ago. Dippy has dug a new hole. A BIG hole, which leads him to a strange new world - and even stranger new friends. But do these giant creatures really just want to play? Based on ...Show more
Dippy's Big Day Out by Jackie French; Ben Smith Whatley (Illustrator); Bruce Whatley (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Dippy the Diprotodon Ser.
The setting is Australia, 100,000 years ago, where a VERY LARGE wombat is seen sleeping and most probably scratching, as well. This is where it all began. Dippy is a sweet, gentle wombat who lived many many thousands of years ago. He also happens to be a BIG wombat, one the size of a mini bus; a diproto ...Show more
Drought (HB) by Jackie French
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
I remember when rain stopped, When day by day the water dropped, All across a sun-bleached land, Drought spread its withered, deadly hand. From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire and Cyclone comes Droughta moving story about the devastating effects drought has on many Australians and their farms. ...Show more
Earthquake by Jackie French
$17.00 AUD
Category: Information Books
Down below the giant rumbled, All around us buildings crumbled, Newcastle began to shake ... ‘Quake!’ yelled someone. ‘Out! Earthquake!’ From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire, Cyclone, Drought and Pandemic.
Elephant Alert (Animal Rescue #1) by Jackie French
$5.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (5 to 8 years) | Series: Animal Rescue
Leo thinks he's an ordinary kid, but he isn't - he can talk to animals and his best friend's a guinea pig! Mozz knows she's anything but ordinary. She's cool and clever, lives in a mansion with her mad scientist grandmother, and she soars through the sky in a rocket - the SkyTiger - saving wild animals ...Show more
Facing the Flame (#7 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$20.00 AUD
Category: Y.A Fiction | Series: The\Matilda Saga Ser.
There have been droughts before, but not like this. Heartbreaking and powerful, FACING THE FLAME is a story of the triumph of courage and community, and a love for the land so deep that not even bushfire can erode it. Gibber's Creek 1978 As grass dries and the hot wind howls, Gibber's Creek will burn. B ...Show more
Facing the Flame (#7 The Matilda Saga) (TPB) by Jackie French
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: The Matilda Saga
There have been fires before, but not like this. Heartbreaking and powerful, FACING THE FLAME is a story of the triumph of courage and community, and a love for the land so deep that not even bushfire can erode it. Gibber's Creek, 1978 As grass dries and the hot wind howls, Gibber's Creek will burn. But ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #1: Shipwreck, Sailors & 60,000 Years by Jackie French; Peter Sheehan (Illustrator)
$17.00 AUD
Category: Information Books | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
The Indigenous people of Australia have lived here for tens of thousands of years. They survived the ice age and ancient global warming. They saw oceans sink and oceans rise. They watched the mega-beasts disappear and dingoes arrive. Theirs is the oldest civilization in the world. Then along came the Du ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #4: Gold, Graves and Glory by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
For 60,000 years the rest of the world had pretty much left Australia and its Aboriginal nations alone. Then it became a home for Britain's criminals and poor. Now a con man had found gold and suddenly everyone was heading to Australia: adventurers, revolutionaries, camels... Australia would never be th ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #5: A Nation of Swaggies and Diggers by Jackie French
$17.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The Australian colonies had come a long way since they were a dump for grim crims and convicts. Life was comfortableat least for some. But soon drought would send swaggies waltzing their matildas along the roads, and bad times would make politicians dream of uniting the country into one nation. And then ...Show more