Category: Australiana
A rambunctious romp of a family road trip around Australia looking for the right place to celebrate Aunty's birthday with a cake. An everyday Aussie family leaves their Melbourne home, makes for the Great Ocean Road and finds themselves on the journey of a lifetime to every state and territory of Austr ...Show more
Category: Picture Books
Attention! Attention! Calling all young adventurers.Starting in Brisbane and ending in Capalaba (the home of Wombat Books), on each page of the book Wombat tells readers what makes the location special. Wombat slops on some sunscreen to visit the beaches of Gold Coast. He spots a roo at Taronga Zoo and ...Show more
Category: Picture Books | Series: Nature Storybooks
An exciting new addition to the narrative nonfiction series Nature Storybooks, about kookaburras. In the crinkled shadows night-dwellers yawn, day-creatures stretch and Kookaburra laughs. Kook-kook-kook. Kak-kak-kak. The team behind Dingo is back again with a new addition to the Nature Storybooks series ...Show more
Category: Australiana
"My Aussie Dad likes thinking that his barbie skills are tops... Even if the snags have burst, or if he's burnt the chops!" A playful and humorous story of the jovial, the kind, the slightly embarrassing and the wholly lovable Aussie Dad.
Category: Australiana | Series: My Country
I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror The wide brown land for me! Dorothea MacKellar's iconic poem, beautifully illustrated by Andrew McLean, depicts Austra ...Show more
Category: Picture Books | Series: Nature Storybooks Ser.
Platypus leaves his burrow in the riverbank and dives into the cool green pool. It is dusk and he is hungry. Platypus is always busy, always moving, looking for his next meal. Follow platypus as he plays, swims, dives and scurries around his riverbank home.
Category: Australiana | Series: Man From Snowy River
There is no greater Australian bush hero than the man from Snowy River, and no greater bush legend than his famous downhill ride. Award-winning illustrator Freya Blackwood takes a stunning approach to Banjo Paterson's most famous bush ballad. She brilliantly captures the drama of this much-loved poem, ...Show more
Category: Australiana | Series: Waltzing Matilda
This famous ballad of the outback wanderer who drowned himself rather than lose his freedom needs no introduction. There is no swagman as legendary as the tragic hero of this tale, and there is no Australian song as well-known throughout the world. Here the famous ballad is given new depth and perspecti ...Show more
