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100 Watermelons
$13.00 (GST-inc)Not 98. Not 99. Come harvest time, the proud Mr. Macaroni has 100 big, round, juicy watermelons. But tragedy strikes as he attempts to unload them. The forklift topples over and 99 watermelons go tumbling down the alarmingly steep sides of William Street causing sticky chaos and sweet confusion. 99…? That means there’s still one watermelon on the loose! Watch out!
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A Penny in Time
$8.00 (GST-inc)When Yared’s left at his nanna’s for a week he feels like running away. He wants to be in his own room, with his football cards and his batman doona, not in the spare room at his nanna’s with its blue flowery bedspread and the bookshelf full of old-fashioned girls’ adventure stories. He wants his own parents,
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Alice the Kangaroo
$13.00 (GST-inc)What do you get if you cross a hop-challenged kangaroo, a know-it-all galah, a rusty Holden ute and a fearsome bushfire?
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Animal Doctor, Animal Doctor
$13.00 (GST-inc)Heard of a hippo with a sore hip? Or a giraffe with a crick in the neck? Or a monkey with nose-pinching halitosis? Who can come to their rescue? The Animal Doctor, of course!
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Bringing Down the Wall
$13.00 (GST-inc)Joshua misses his grandpa, but his mother has told him he’s not allowed to see him. She won’t explain why, but Joshua suspects it has something to do with his grandpa’s new wife, Riva.
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DISinformation
$13.00 (GST-inc)In this epic birdlife tale, the first of the Woody & Sir Humphrey Series, word is out that Woody the Canary is going to lose his feathers.
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DuckStar / Cyberfarm
$8.00 (GST-inc)A two book series of back-to-back stories with delightful illustrations certain to captivate younger readers.
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Echte Waffen
$8.00 (GST-inc)Eines Nachts hört er zufällig, wie sein Vater und seine Mutter über eine Waffe reden, die im Haus versteckt ist. Am nächsten Tag beginnt er sie zu suchen. Tatsächlich findet er eine schwere Kiste unter dem Bett seiner Eltern, und darin ist sie – eine echte Waffe! Er fühlt das kalte schwere Metall in seinen Händen…
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Feeling Blue
$13.00 (GST-inc)Mr. Wren is feeling very blue, so Mrs. Wren decides to find out why.
With Mark Eatwell’s spectacular nature photographs and Trevor Todd’s simple, uncomplicated text, we find out Mr. Wren thinks he doesn’t measure up to other birds. But once his secret is revealed, Mrs. Wren knows just how to cheer him up.
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Global Cooling
$9.00 (GST-inc)The second in the Project Earth-mend Series of environmentally conscious but enjoyable novels for kids who want to learn about how to save the Earth. After their early success with Project Earth-Mend in Canberra in The Greenhouse Effect, Tiger the Cat bids farewell to his owner, Alexander, and heads off to the coast with his friend Wanda the Blue-tongue and the frog Tark (who is really an extraterrestrial from the Planet Griffon) to spread the word about how to save the Earth.
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Granny Rags
$8.00 (GST-inc)Winner, IP Picks 2012 Best Junior Prose. Tim Trickett – shy, over-protected and troubled by memories – is the new boy in a small country town. When his classmates put him up to an initiation test, he finds himself on his way to visit Granny Rags, the reclusive old lady who lives near the creek and is rumoured to be a witch.
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Harold The Owl Who Couldn’t Sleep
$7.00 (GST-inc)After hunting all night, Harold the Owl is ready for a snooze, but just as he starts to fall asleep, the birds start chirping. And then the gardener starts his leaf blower. What’s a sleepy owl to do?
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Hedgeburners
$17.00 (GST-inc)Who is setting fire to the old cypress hedges? A team of young detectives sets about to solve the crime. Just about everyone these young detectives come across has a motive and as time goes on there are more and more fires and more serious confrontations…
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I Love You Book
$13.00 (GST-inc)Do you love books? Well, then you should dive into this one! Come on a romp through the pages of this enchanting picture book.
It reminds us of all the books we love, and why we like to see and to feel, to touch and to smell and even to taste the books and the stories that light up our lives. -
Ich Liebe Dich Büch
$8.00 (GST-inc)Es erinnert uns an all die Bücher, die wir lieben, und warum wir gerne sehen und zu fühlen, zu berühren und zu riechen und sogar schmecken Bücher und Geschichten.
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Jason Chen and the Time Banana
$17.00 (GST-inc)Jason Chen learns of a strange and powerful machine lurking in his neighbour’s backyard. Mrs Bryant is supposed to be weird, but she buys fish and chips from his parents’ café so he thinks she can’t be too bad. But Mrs B has a secret. And when she says she can’t succeed in her dangerous mission without him, Jason agrees to join her for a ride in her Time Banana.
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Jest the Funny Bits
$16.00 (GST-inc)Jest the Funny Bits is a collection of Bill’s comic poems, plays and short stories. He had a lot of fun writing them and he really hopes you have fun reading them. However, spoiler alert, they’re not for everyone. If you’re a humourless sour grumpy-pants, whose face would split in two if you attempted to smile or laugh, then, whatever you do, don’t read this book!
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La Chute du Mur
$9.00 (GST-inc)Chosen title: Canadian Children’s Book Center catalog best books for children and teenagers 2013! In The Fall of the Wall , Joshua misses his grandfather, but his mother forbids him to see him. She doesn’t want to explain why, but Joshua suspects it has something to do with his new wife, Riva.
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Las Armas de Fuego
$8.00 (GST-inc)Like many other children, Juan is fascinated with weapons, games and fire.
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Le Bateau de rêves
$8.00 (GST-inc)After his sister’s death, Liam’s world turns gray.
He spends hours staring at the clouds in the winter sky, hoping Cassie is up there somewhere.
